Analysis

U.S. broadcast station mergers and acquisitions (M&A) volume reached $4.31 billion in Q4 2018, closing the year with $8.87 billion in deals, according to Kagan.

According to Nielsen, The Big Bang Theory and the now-canceled Roseanne rank highest among the top 10 regularly scheduled TV programs in the U.S. for 2018, while Better Call Saul and The Sinner received the biggest boosts from time-shifting.

According to FX Networks Research, the number of U.S. scripted originals hit 495 this year, driven by online services, up from 487 last year.

New research from Parks Associates has found that 13 percent of U.S. broadband households are cord-cutters, while 4 percent are cord-never.

New research from Parks Associates finds that U.S. broadband households report watching an average of five hours of internet video on their TV sets per week.

New data from S&P Global Market Intelligence's Kagan reports that cable, DTH and telco operators lost 1.2 million video customers in the U.S. in the third quarter, reaching 91 million.

New research from Parks Associates finds the rate of cancellations for OTT video services among U.S. broadband households has held steady over the past three years at around 18 percent.

New research from GfK MRI finds that almost three-quarters (71 percent) of all U.S. consumers say they have a cable, satellite or telco TV service and have no plans to drop it.

According to the Q2 2018 U.S. Multichannel Subscriber Report by Kagan, the cable, direct broadcast satellite (DBS) and telco multichannel sectors lost a combined 860,640 video subscribers in the second quarter.

The number of SVOD subscriptions in the U.S. is forecast to increase from 132 million in 2017 to 208 million in 2023, according to new figures from Digital TV Research.