Cord Cutting Hits Programmers on the Chin, CCG Says

As cord cutting picks up steam, programmers are hurting the most, as they lose millions of monthly subscriptions that were paying for their programming, CCG Consulting President Doug Dawson blogged Thursday. Some networks are recovering some of those losses by selling content to providers like Sling TV or PlayStation Now, but programmers overall have sizable losses of paying households, he said. It remains to be seen whether cord cutting continues to accelerate or if losses become slow and steady, akin to the dissolving of the landline phone, he said.