{"id":11292,"date":"2025-03-26T07:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T14:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=11292"},"modified":"2025-03-26T07:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T14:55:07","slug":"nearly-half-of-canadians-have-cut-cable-entirely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/nearly-half-of-canadians-have-cut-cable-entirely\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly Half of Canadians Have Cut Cable Entirely"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I guess people are getting wise to paying all that money to subsidize propaganda networks feeding them trash. Consequently, data I’ve found for 2023 had US subscriptions at 40%, so even lower. Fascinating that these expensive TV packages keep raising prices all because channels are greedy for a larger cut. They’re grasping money to support propaganda with two hands while making the case for more people to drop the services and move to streaming. And there is actually a lot of free streaming services that have decent programming, though maybe a bit older, but then the new shows are dark, depressing and they can’t help but over do the social engineering propaganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/mobilesyrup.com\/2025\/03\/24\/canadian-streaming-report-convergence-research\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Meanwhile, Canadian streaming subscription revenue grew 15 per cent year-over-year to $4.2 billion in 2024<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

By Bradly Shankar<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An estimated 46 per cent (7.35 million) of Canadian households didn\u2019t have a TV subscription with a cable, satellite, or telecom-based provider in 2024, according to a new report from Convergence Research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In its latest annual \u201cCouch Potato\u201d report on the streaming market, the firm notes that this was a four per cent increase from 2023 and that the number is expected to continue to rise to 54 per cent by 2027. Convergence notes that this marks a greater shift towards subscription video on demand services (SVOD) like Netflix and Disney+. To that point, the firm found that Canadian streaming subscription revenue grew 15 per cent year-over-year to $4.2 billion in 2024. At the same time, linear TV subscription revenue dropped five per cent to around $6.5 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some other interesting findings from the report:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 10 leading streaming providers raised prices in Canada by an average of six percent last year
Ad-enabled memberships are cost 39 percent less on average compared to ad-free options
Canadians subscribe to an average of 2.6 streaming platforms per household<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That said, Convergence Research noted in an interview with The Canadian Press<\/em> that the majority of this ever-growing streaming revenue is going to American companies. Indeed, Bell-owned Crave is the only Canadian service among the major streaming players, with the likes of Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video and Apple TV+ all being American.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This has led the CRTC to introduce the \u201cOnline Streaming Act\u201d<\/a> requiring foreign streamers to invest five percent of their Canadian revenue into Canadian content. Several American streamers have been trying to fight the act in court<\/a> and in the public eye<\/a>, and Netflix even cut local arts funding in response<\/a>. The CRTC is set to implement the act by the end of the year<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I guess people are getting wise to paying all that money to subsidize propaganda networks feeding them trash. Consequently, data I’ve found for 2023 had US subscriptions at 40%, so even lower. Fascinating that these expensive TV packages keep raising prices all because channels are greedy for a larger cut. They’re grasping money to support […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11293,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11292\/revisions\/11293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}