While reports of the steady stream of households fleeing cable point to an industry in peril, some observers still believe linear TV is here to stay (at least for now). A recent study conducted by Leichtman Research Group found that the percentage of households that subscribe to a pay-TV service of some kind is actually higher in 2015 than it was in 2005. “The misdirection that people take with cord cutting is the idea that there’s been a significant acceleration,” noted Bruce Leichtman, president and principal analyst of his eponymous firm. While thousands of consumers are indeed abandoning the cable industry, 2010 marked a low point for those who chose to become what researchers once called “non-subs” or non-subscribers, and the number of subscribers has increased incrementally since then.
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