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Cord-cutters or -nevers under the age of 30 approaches 50%

WINNIPEG – The number of Canadian households who report never having a traditional television subscription, or who have cut the cord which once delivered TV to them, rose to 17.8% in 2017 for all Canadians and 44.5% for those Canadians under the age of 30, says Winnipeg’s Communications Management Inc.The company has been compiling this information for six years by applying a formula to data from Statistics Canada’s Survey of Household Spending, which was just updated December 12th. Still 76% of Canadian households reported having a subscription to a cable, satellite or IPTV carrier in 2017 as the number of...