Tag: SNL Kagan

SNL Kagan reports that the U.S. cable, DTH and telco sectors lost a whopping 430,000 customers in the third quarter, bringing the year-to-date drop to 1.3 million. Cable operators shed 94,000 total video customers, the best Q3 performance for the sector since 2006.

Looking down the line at the next ten years, SNL Kagan has given a sunny outlook for what's ahead in the U.S. cable industry. Residential revenues are projected to increase from $108.38 billion in 2016 to $117.7 billion in 2026, or $9.32 billion over the ten-year period.

By 2022, U.S. TV station owners will receive $11.6 billion in retransmission fees from multichannel operators, according to SNL Kagan. U.S. retrans fees hit $6.4 billion last year and are set to reach $7.7 billion this year, a 20-percent gain. SNL Kagan observes that while retrans fees are gaining, including annual increases in dollar-per-subscription rates, margins are under pressure.

Popular and critically acclaimed films and TV shows have become more digitally accessible in the U.S. than in previous years, according to a new SNL Kagan report. The new study, titled U.S. Availability of Film and TV Titles in the Digital Age, found that 98 percent of premium films and 94 percent of premium TV series were digitally available on at least one of the 33 online VOD distributors and 14 TV Everywhere on-demand services reviewed.

The downward trajectory of the U.S. multichannel segment continued in the fourth quarter of 2015, according to a recent report from SNL Kagan, despite a resurgence in cable subscriptions and solid direct-broadcast satellite (DBS) results. SNL Kagan estimates the combined cable, DBS and telecommunications (telco) sectors lost more than 1 million video customers in 2015.

MONTEREY: Broadcast station mergers and acquisitions (M&A) volume in the U.S. reached $486.8 million in the fourth quarter of 2015, according to SNL Kagan. The SNL Kagan report finds that the total is low compared to the more than $3 billion of the previous quarter, but it is still more …