Mediagazer: Cord cutters use 7x more bandwidth than cable TV watchers

12:45 PM ET, May 14, 2014

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Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Cord cutters use 7x more bandwidth than cable TV watchers - Sandvine — Here's a question that may be increasingly relevant for some of you: If you don't pay for cable, and you get all your video from the Internet instead, how much bandwidth do you eat up each month? — Quite a bit, it turns out.

Discussion: TIME, multichannel.com, @tothevictor and Gigaom

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix Remains King of Bandwidth Usage, While YouTube Declines

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post and ABC News

Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

Time Inc. execs line up at spinoff trough — As Time Inc. insiders brace for a new round of pre-spinoff layoffs that are expected to begin next week, recently unveiled numbers show the top brass at the publisher are not sharing in the pain. — Norman Pearlstine, the executive vice president …

Discussion: MediaWire Daily

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Time Inc. Waves Goodbye to CNNMoney and Its Digital Profits — When Time Inc. splits off from parent company Time Warner next month, it will also say goodbye to CNNMoney, the financial news site it ran as a joint venture with the cable network. CNN is keeping the site in the divorce …

Discussion: TVNewser

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The New York Times has a (lovely) new cooking site … Spring is apparently new-product-launch season at the Times: Barely a month past the debut of NYT Now, along comes its new cooking site. (In various reports over the past year, it's been referred to as a food product, a dining product …

Discussion: @jbenton

Howard Finberg / Poynter:

Why newsrooms don't embrace digital tools — Many newsrooms in the U.S. are still not taking advantage of the low-cost digital tools for gathering and distributing journalism, even when journalists and producers know about the alternatives to traditional technologies.

Discussion: @gteresa, @craigsilverman, @johnrobinson, @jayrosen_nyu and @poynter

Dan Appenfeller / American Journalism Review:

Copy Editors Carve Niche in Digital Media Landscape — Abraham Hyatt saw the writing on the wall. — More than a year into his three-year managing editor stint at ReadWrite, a popular technology news site, Hyatt watched traffic plummet from roughly 5 million pageviews a month to less than 3 million.

Discussion: @dcseifert, @kimbui, @tcarmody, @tcarmody, @mrbutterworth, @rachaelbl, JIMROMENESKO.COM, @kleinmatic, @pinkgrammar, @emmabgardner, @gerrrib, @kubremner and @jaredbkeller

Reuters:

Le Monde editor quits after power struggle with top staff — Natalie Nougayrede says she is stepping down from role at French newspaper after ‘personal and direct attacks’ — Natalie Nougayrede, the first female editor-in-chief of the prestigious French daily Le Monde …

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

London Live TV company ESTV lost more than £1m in 13 months — New figures reveal Evening Standard owner Alexander Lebedev and his son Evgeny invested £2m to help set up service — The company behind the London Live TV channel has reported a loss of more than £1m …

Discussion: Press Gazette

Amy Schatz / Re/code:

Letter from major ISPs urges FCC not to reclassify broadband as a utility — Internet Providers Strike Back on Net Neutrality — In a surprise to no one, Internet providers warned federal regulators that treating broadband like phone lines will stunt future investments and service upgrades.

Discussion: Gigaom, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, @waltmossberg and Daily Dot

Brian Fung / Washington Post:
FCC Twitter chat on net neutrality proves useful; draft to ask whether fast lanes should be banned, public comment period extended to 60 days

Discussion: BBC, @amy_schatz and @vanschewick

Dominic Rushe / Guardian:
FCC considers treating cable firms like utilities in net neutrality debate

Discussion: Quartz, Broadcasting & Cable, @fcc, @gigibsohnfcc, @b_fung, @sensanders, Washington Post, Reuters, SPIN, The Verge and Associated Press

B&T:

Newspaper mastheads up even though print readership down — Many of Australia's major newspapers have upped their masthead audiences, even though fewer people are reading the print editions. — Seven out of the ten main capital city daily newspapers increased their masthead audiences …

Alexis Sobel Fitts / Columbia Journalism Review:

The ‘new feminists’ of Joanna Cole's Cosmopolitan — When Cosmopolitan took home a National Magazine Award for public service journalism—the first ASME recognition in the magazine's almost 50-year history—the news echoed through headlines as signal of the state of things …

Discussion: The New York Observer

Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:

Chartbeat launches paid-content tools to help publishers get better at native advertising — Chartbeat CEO Tony Haile built his analytical service — originally part of New York's Betaworks incubator, but later spun off as a separate entity — because he wanted to help publishers figure …

Discussion: TechCrunch

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

News of the World royal editor: I hacked Kate Middleton 155 times — Clive Goodman tells phone-hacking trial he himself intercepted princes' voicemails, but has never been asked about it by police — Kate Middleton was hacked 155 times by a reporter on the News of the World who said he snooped …

Discussion: Latest News & Headlines, The Independent, Daily Express, Telegraph, Reuters, USA Today, NBC News and thedrum.com

Emma Hall / AdAge:

WPP leads acquisitions race with 6 tech firms and 10 marketing/communications companies bought in Q1 2014 — WPP Leads Acquisition Trail Again to Start the Year — Sorrell's Group Buys More Tech Companies — Festival — Internet Week New York — WPP, the largest agency holding company …

Discussion: MediaWire Daily

Robert Andrews / Beet.TV:

Roku Adding 90+ Channels Every Month — Over-the-top online video and TV device maker Roku is adding more digital channels to its gadgets whilst building out an advertising business to augment its original paid video background. — “We're launching over 90 channels a month,” business development VP Scott Rosenberg tells Beet.TV.

Thanks:@beet_tv

Ben Fox Rubin / Wall Street Journal:

Gannett to buy six Texas TV stations for $215 million. — Gannett agreed to buy six TV stations in Texas from Dallas-based media firm London Broadcasting for $215 million, continuing Gannett's effort to push more into broadcast.

Discussion: Poynter, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and PR Newswire

Nic Christensen / mUmBRELLA:

Mail Online soft launches Australian content as Nielsen rankings remain stable — The Mail Online has switched its website to largely Australian content, in what appears to be a full launch for one of the newest entrants in the Australian online news space.

Discussion: Daily Mail, @jarrodwhittaker, @penelopejones and @onlyapaprmoon