Cord Cutting News

I know it’s early, but I’ve already seen the stockpiles of tinsel and garland waiting to burst into the holiday aisle of your local CVS the minute the last trick-or-treater knocks on your door. For those potential cord cutters fretting about missing their favorite holiday movie, don’t worry. There are plenty of ways to get [Continue Reading]

Big news from Verizon Wireless! They just announced customers with an “Unlimited” plan would receive a free year of Disney’s new streaming service, Disney+, when it launches on November 12th. This deal is for new and existing Verizon Wireless customers. With that announcement, and being a Verizon Wireless customer myself, I wanted to cover the differences [Continue Reading]

Baseball Playoffs and NHL Season If you are looking to watch this year’s Baseball postseason but don’t have cable, then check out our guide to watching the MLB Playoffs online. The puck dropped this week on the 2018-2019 hockey season, so if you want to know how to watch be sure to check out our [Continue Reading]

The traditional pay-TV industry has been in denial of cord cutter for years. In 2014-2015 you couldn’t turn on cable news without some pundit claiming internet-based live TV streaming services couldn’t replace traditional cable TV. A similar denial is still occurring, only this time the industry is padding their losses with data from over the top (OTT) streaming [Continue Reading]

This week Luke Bouma over at Cord Cutters News did a great job picking apart a story published by Quartz claiming we cord-cutters aren’t saving any money. Essentially, Quartz was pushing the idea that cord cutting is just as expensive as cable using a study that wasn’t comparing apples and apples. While anyone who has [Continue Reading]

My wife and I cut the cord about four years ago. Like everyone else thinking about making the switch, we fretted about what we might miss. Additionally,  I was shocked about how little I missed. When we had cable, my wife and I would watch about 2-3 hours of TV a night. TV became a [Continue Reading]

Those of us who have found other ways to watch TV without cable already know that cutting the cord can save tons of cash.  However, there are many naysayers that say that cord cutters wind up getting too many services to make it that much cheaper than pay-TV. Well, a recent study has finally put [Continue Reading]

One of the biggest complaints I hear about cord cutting is having content spread across multiple apps and services. Streaming devices like Roku have instituted universal search in their devices, which search multiple services. However, there still isn’t away to browse for ideas without going into each app separately. Apple may have solved that problem. [Continue Reading]

There are occasions where news happens in the cord cutting world that doesn’t make it into a blog post on Grounded Reason. In situations where a channel gets added to a streaming service, or Netflix picked up a new series I just update a relevant post on the blog. That means it doesn’t come to [Continue Reading]