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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Charter Offers Another Skinny Bundle Streaming TV Option ]]></title>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Jeff Baumgartner ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ZtdCsWPWGPXeZsW3qAHFuY-1280-80.jpg">
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                                <figure class="van-image-figure pull-" data-bordeaux-image-check ><div class='image-full-width-wrapper'><div class='image-widthsetter' ><p class="vanilla-image-block" style="padding-top:56.25%;"><img id="ZtdCsWPWGPXeZsW3qAHFuY" name="" alt="" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ZtdCsWPWGPXeZsW3qAHFuY.jpg" mos="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ZtdCsWPWGPXeZsW3qAHFuY.jpg" align="" fullscreen="" width="" height="" attribution="" endorsement="" class="pull-"></p></div></div></figure><p>Offering another way to protect its video subscriber base by luring in new customers and fending off a growing cord-cutting trend, Charter Communications has recently introduced a new, in-home skinny-bundle offering called Spectrum Choice.</p><p>Per a <a href="https://www.spectrumtvchoice.com/">web site dedicated to the new offering</a>, it includes local broadcast networks, 25 Music Choice channels, and -- in an a la carte-like approach -- lets customers select 10 more channels to complete their package. Customers can also pay extra for premium add-ons such as HBO, Showtime, The Movie Channel, Starz and Starz Encore.</p><p>The site doesn’t provide pricing without an authenticated address, but <a href="https://www.techhive.com/article/3257229/streaming-services/spectrum-quietly-tries-a-la-carte-tv-streaming-but-restrictions-apply.html"><em>TechHive</em>, which took the service for a spin, said</a> Spectrum Choice starts at $25 per month (after a discounted first month of $15) for the first two years, but with no long-term contracts. Customers can buy premiums for $7.50 per month each or $15 when all are bundled.</p><p>The service, the report added, is offered on mobile devices, web browsers, Roku players, and Xbox consoles. Spectrum Choice doesn’t require a Charter-supplied set-top box, but customers will need one if they want to add a DVR (Charter has yet to launch a cloud DVR that, for example, could work with Roku boxes). TechHive said that set-top box/DVR option would raise the cost by $20 per month, with recordings only available on the set-top.</p><p>As this is an in-home, in-footprint offering, Charter is delivering the service into the home via a managed IP connection (and not over-the-top via a public internet connection).</p><p>The service does support out-of-home rights to some channels for the linear TV and/or VOD assets. Rights to that out-of-home content, which would be accessible via the internet/OTT, varies. Per a chart that denotes out-of-home availability, bout live TV and VOD from Discovery Channel and Food Network, are supported, while only VOD is supported for A&E, and neither option (linear or VOD) is available out of the home for Disney Channel.</p><p>Though this is an IP-delivered streaming service, Charter stressed that Spectrum Choice is not a rebrand of <a href="https://www.spectrum.com/getstream.html">Charter Spectrum TV Stream</a>, another slimmed-down, no-contract offering that includes more than 25 channels, including major local TV networks, and starts at $22 per month, plus access to several premiums for $3 per month more each (or $15 for the Premium Pack). That offering is also offered via an app for iOS and Android mobile devices, Roku players and Roku TVs, Samsung smart TVs and the Xbox One.</p><p><a href="https://www.nexttv.com/news/charter-tests-sports-free-skinny-bundle-413783" data-original-url="https://www.multichannel.com/news/charter-tests-sports-free-skinny-bundle-413783">RELATED: Charter Tests Sports-Free Skinny Bundle</a></p><p>Like Spectrum TV Stream, Spectrum Choice, a Charter official said, “is also targeted at customers who don’t currently purchase a video product from us. We continue to launch and test new services to better serve customer demand for more choice.”</p><p>The Charter official didn’t say when Spectrum Choice was launched, but <a href="https://www.cordcuttersnews.com/spectrum-rolling-la-carte-tv-streaming-service-new-markets/"><em>CordCutterNews</em> spotted it earlier this month.</a></p><p>These new, skinny TV services continue to emerge as Charter and others launch and experiment new ways to bring in new video customers, go after cord-cutters and present options for current pay TV subs that might be tightening their belts.</p><p>In Q4 2017, Charter bucked the trend by adding 2,000 residential pay TV subs, improving from a loss of 51,000 in the prior year period. </p>
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