How to Use cord-cutting in a Sentence

cord-cutting

noun

• The cord-cutting has gotten so rampant that Charter has thrown up its hands and surrendered.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2023
• Having second thoughts about cord-cutting, but not ready to jump back into that kind of commitment?
  — Reece Rogers, WIRED, 10 Feb. 2024
• Welcome to Screen Gab, the newsletter for everyone whose attempts at cord-cutting have proven full of trip wires.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
• The big picture: The deal immediately reshapes the pay-TV pecking order amid threats from cord-cutting and the rise of streaming .
  — Tim Baysinger, Axios, 30 Sep. 2024
• That's a strategy shift designed to get ahead of the cord-cutting that has dented Showtime's linear subscriber base.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 18 Jan. 2024
• Discovery sports platform has been touted as a game-changer in a pay TV market hit by cord-cutting.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 May 2024
• But as Diamond established in an earlier filing, the RSNs are no stranger to the ravages of cord-cutting.
  — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 18 June 2024
• The late-night broadcast TV landscape has been upended by the rise of cord-cutting and streaming alternatives.
  — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 28 Sep. 2024
• But now there will be far less pressure to find ways to prop up struggling assets or convince Wall Street that cord-cutting is really not a big problem.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 9 Aug. 2024
• Covid and the rapid shift to streaming have squeezed the long-lucrative RSN model, which has come under intense pressure due to cord-cutting and shifting consumer habit.
  — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 29 July 2024
• Adding to its challenges, the overall audience for cable TV keeps shrinking every year amid cord-cutting.
  — Isabella Simonetti, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2023
• In a harsh media landscape that has been marred by layoffs and cord-cutting, Fox hasn’t spent heavily on a streaming service to compete with Netflix.
  — Hannah Miller, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2024
• Zaslav is undoubtedly in a panic about the future of cable news, which looks bleak because so many people are cord-cutting.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 17 July 2023
• The bottom line: RSNs may face pressure from cord-cutting, but audience interest in live sports has never been higher.
  — Tim Baysinger, Axios, 17 Sep. 2024
• Ratings began to turn around in the 2018 season, though concerns about cord-cutting and the changing media business would go on to influence the league’s media strategy.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2023
• The note follows years worth of cord-cutting, which is expected to continue, affecting revenues for the cable news network.
  — Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2024
• These struggles were blamed on the rise of streaming and social media—the mass cord-cutting that continues to reshape the entertainment industry.
  — Will Bedingfield, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2023
• The latter has seen Disney funnel its marquee efforts away from linear TV and that shift has helped accelerate cord-cutting.
  — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 7 Sep. 2023
• Revenue from cable and satellite subscribers is declining as cord-cutting continues at a steady pace each year.
  — Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024
• Murdoch, on Fox’s earnings call Wednesday, downplayed the prospect that the streaming sports bundle would accelerate cord-cutting.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 7 Feb. 2024
• A lot has happened in the intervening two decades and the companies are experiencing major stress due to cord-cutting.
  — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2024
• Disney’s stock price has recently tumbled, under pressure from ongoing cord-cutting and the high cost of streaming.
  — Kristin Broughton, WSJ, 6 Nov. 2023
• Only around 70 million U.S. households now pay for some form of television, and the rate of cord-cutting is only accelerating.
  — Kevin Draper, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
• Cable news remains highly profitable, but cord-cutting is slowly depriving them of the subscriber fees that have sustained the businesses for decades.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 7 June 2024
• The companies are in the grip of paying escalating costs for sports rights while their revenue sources are under threat from cord-cutting and shrinking ratings that are driving down ad revenues.
  — Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2024
• Cable cord-cutting, driven by the audience’s shift to streaming video, is shrinking the number of households regional sports networks can reach.
  — Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• The traditional television business is in big trouble, and has been for a long time, thanks to cord-cutting, streaming and all the other factors hammering the linear pay-TV bundle.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
• There is no shortage of RSNs having financial difficulty due to cord-cutting.
  — Mike Ozanian, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
• The network has been grappling with declining ratings in recent years, as cord-cutting and disaffected viewers have put the squeeze on its viewing levels.
  — Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
• Streaming was losing billions of dollars a year, and traditional TV networks, while still generating cash, were in free fall thanks to cord-cutting.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024