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Cartt.ca INVESTIGATES: Is cord-cutting fact or fiction? Reality or baloney?

AS THE WAYS IN WHICH consumers can get video content proliferate, traditional media producers and distributors are worried about their future.They hear tons of anecdotal evidence that Canadians are ending their cable, satellite or telco TV subscriptions in favour of getting their favourite shows online: the so-called cord-cutting phenomena.Is it real? For some we’ve talked to, it sure is. They’ve abandoned their cable subscriptions in favour of a combination of off-air digital signals from TV broadcasters with a broadband connection where they can go “over-the-top” to find enough TV and movie content (from the likes of YouTube, Netflix, broadcaster web...