{"id":10426,"date":"2021-08-20T10:32:42","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T14:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/u-s-pay-tv-providers-shed-1-2-million-subs-q2\/"},"modified":"2021-08-23T09:28:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T13:28:53","slug":"u-s-pay-tv-providers-shed-1-2-million-subs-in-q2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/u-s-pay-tv-providers-shed-1-2-million-subs-in-q2\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Pay-TV Providers Shed 1.2 Million Subs in Q2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Leichtman Research Group, the largest pay-TV providers in the U.S. lost about 1.23 million net video subscribers in the second quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The top pay-TV providers\u2014representing about 95 percent of the market\u2014now account for about 77.6 million subscribers, with the top seven cable companies having 42.6 million video subscribers, other traditional pay-TV services having about 28.2 million subscribers and the top publicly reporting vMVPD pay-TV services having about 6.8 million subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Comcast ended the period with nearly 19 million subs, a net loss of 399,000. Charter was at 16 million, with a Q2 loss of 50,000 subs. Cox had about 3.5 million subscribers at the end of the quarter, seeing net losses of 60,000. Altice wrapped the period with 2.9 million, shedding 48,300.<\/p>\n<p>In other traditional services, AT&amp;T Premium TV had 15.4 million at the end of Q2, with a loss of 473,000 in the quarter. DISH TV had 8.5 million, with a loss of 132,000. Verizon FiOS had 3.8 million and a loss of 63,000.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at vMVPDs, Hulu + Live TV ended the second quarter with 3.7 million subs, having lost 100,000. Sling TV was at 2.4 million, with a net gain of 65,000. fuboTV had 682,000 subscribers at the end of Q2, with around 92,000 additions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPay-TV net losses of 1,230,000 in Q2 2021 were about 275,000 fewer than in Q2 2020 on a pro forma basis,\u201d said Bruce Leichtman, president and principal analyst for Leichtman Research Group. \u201cOver the past year, top pay-TV providers had a net loss of about 4,520,000 subscribers, compared to a loss of about 5,460,000 over the prior year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Leichtman Research Group, the largest pay-TV providers in the U.S. lost about 1.23 million net video subscribers in the second quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":10427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,69],"tags":[285],"class_list":["post-10426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-analysis","category-top-stories","tag-leichtman-research-group"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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