Cord-Cutting Wave Keeps On Building: Study: High prices, alternative OTT video sources driving trend

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EVIDENCE THAT more consumers are opting to cut the cord continues to mount. Cord-cutters still represent a sliver of the population, but it's a group that is expanding at an accelerating rate. Aided in part by virtual multichannel video programming distributors such as Sling TV and DirecTV Now, the traditional U.S. pay TV industry shrank by 1.7%, or 1.7 million subs, in 2016, compared to 1.1% or 1.1 million in 2015, according to a recent report on the cord-cutting trend from MoffettNathanson principal and senior media analyst Craig Moffett