How to Use cord-cutting in a Sentence

cord-cutting

noun
  • Being down two percent in a cord-cutting and cord-never world is a blip.
    Richard Deitsch, The Athletic, 14 Jan. 2025
  • But it’s widely expected the spinoff company will need to find a dance partner to make it through the world of cord-cutting.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 21 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • But with that glimmer of deals in the eyes of the CEOs comes a cold hard reality: Thanks to cord-cutting, the assets in their portfolios, the cards in their hand, are losing value every day.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Dec. 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
  • Tune-in over the years has continued to defy gravity despite cord-cutting.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 17 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • The bottom line: As the price advantage evaporates, streamers are now asking consumers to buy a broader pitch for cord-cutting.
    Tim Baysinger, Axios, 12 Dec. 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
  • Regional sports networks, which have long carried the bulk of baseball broadcasts, are struggling because of cord-cutting.
    Evan Drellich, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • The realm of pay-TV distribution, long prone to squabbles over carriage fees and deal terms that commonly result in blackouts, has become even more contentious in the current era of cord-cutting.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 12 Feb. 2025
  • What finally worked was more cord-cutting, other streamers raising their prices even more, and downsizing the content offering to save money.
    Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 15 May 2025
  • Its genesis was inspired by the move toward cord-cutting, the leverage sports teams have to pass along price increases to fans, and the defensive position of many real estate holdings teams possess, Zook told Sportico in 2022.
    Brendan Coffey, Sportico.com, 7 May 2025

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