Cord Cutting Not Slowing, Channel Master Executive Says, Also Seeing Life in Over-the-Air

Channel Master's business keeps growing, mostly due to cord cutting, Joe Bingochea, executive vice president-product development, told us, with cord-cutting homes rising. Contrary to TiVo reports showing a slight dip in the cord-cutting trend in Q3 (see 1712130008), “we haven’t seen anything to suggest it has slowed down in the last quarter, as far as our business is concerned,” he said. Among the company's customers, all watching TV over the air, by antenna, "there’s not one consistent pattern of streaming services that they’re supplementing their OTA with," he said. Bingochea sees long-term viability in the OTA business. “I think there’s still some life left in OTA,” even though the major broadcast networks are becoming available in over-the-top formats, he said.