Cord cutting in Canada is real, says new research

OTTAWA – Back-to-back quarters of collective subscriber losses by Canadian cable, satellite and telco TV companies means the cord-cutting phenomenon, however small, is real, says a new report released today by research and consulting firm Boon Dog Professional Services. Publicly traded TV service providers lost an estimated 5,394 TV subscribers combined in the first quarter of 2013 (November/December 2012 to February/March 2013). This followed a combined decrease of an estimated 8,175 in the fourth quarter of 2012 (August/September to November/December 2012), reads the report. Given that the largest and best capitalized TV service providers lost customers as a whole in...