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23.7% of Canadian households don’t subscribe to TV: report

Media | 04/06/2016 6:35 pm EDT

A new report from Convergence Consulting Group Ltd. estimates 3.43 million Canadian households, or about 23.7 per cent, didn’t have a traditional TV subscription with a cable, satellite, or IPTV provider in 2015. That’s an increase from 21.7 per cent a year earlier, and lower than the 25.8 per cent the company predicts for 2016. “We estimate 2015 saw a decline of 190,000 Canadian TV subscribers, 2014 saw a decline of 105,000 TV subs, and we forecast a TV subscriber decline of 191,000 for 2016,” a summary of the annual report posted on the...