On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote:
> One word: college. Two words: Free Internet. > > > http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/09/19/pay_tv_subscriber_decline_college_cord_nevers_are_killing_cable.html > The thing that bugs me about these stories is their anecdotal nature, small sample sizes, and cultural bias. And by cultural bias I mean using full time college students who live in dorms as representatives of their age group. The statistics on poverty show that it is growing, but it seems poor people are keeping their cable subscriptions. Young people of the dorm demographic might have reasons for not hooking up to cable, but they can change their minds at any time in the future and they will have the means to afford it without sacrificing anything else. For people of less means cutting cable means more money in the pocket and a real probability that they will never go back. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
