{"id":9926,"date":"2020-05-08T10:10:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T14:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/top-u-s-pay-platforms-lost-2-3-million-subs-q1\/"},"modified":"2020-05-11T09:29:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T13:29:03","slug":"top-u-s-pay-platforms-lost-2-3-million-subs-in-q1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/top-u-s-pay-platforms-lost-2-3-million-subs-in-q1\/","title":{"rendered":"Top U.S. Pay Platforms Lost 2.3 Million Subs in Q1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The top ten U.S. pay-TV providers shed 2.33 million customers in the first quarter of this year, bringing their combined base down to 75 million, per the informitv <em>Multiscreen Index<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Just two years ago, the top ten providers serviced more than 84 million customers. \u201cThis is the largest quarterly loss of television subscribers in the United States we have reported to date,\u201d noted Dr. William Cooper, the editor of the informitv <em>Multiscreen Index<\/em>. \u201cThe coronavirus pandemic has contributed to this, but many service providers have been losing subscribers for some time. Notably, their newer online services are now no exception to this trend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is difficult to determine how far these losses can be attributed to economic conditions and how much to an accelerating long-term structural decline,\u201d added informitv analyst Dr. Sue Farrell.<\/p>\n<p>AT&amp;T lost the most subs, with 897,000 lost Premium TV customers and 135,000 fewer AT&amp;T TV NOW customers. DISH Network&#8217;s satellite base fell by 382,000 subs, while the Sling TV MVPD lost 281,000. Comcast lost 388,000 television subscribers. Verizon television subscribers declined by 84,000. Charter Spectrum lost 70,000 television subscribers. Altice, Mediacom and Frontier lost 97,700 television subscribers between them.<\/p>\n<p>The ten leading operators in the U.S. serve 74.65 million TV customers, a penetration rate of 62 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top ten U.S. pay-TV providers shed 2.33 million customers in the first quarter of this year, bringing their combined base down to 75 million, per the informitv Multiscreen Index.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":290,"featured_media":9927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,69],"tags":[1877],"class_list":["post-9926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-analysis","category-top-stories","tag-informitv-multiscreen-index"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Top U.S. Pay Platforms Lost 2.3 Million Subs in Q1 - TVUSA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The top ten U.S. pay-TV providers shed 2.33 million customers in the first quarter of this year, bringing their combined base down to 75 million, per the informitv Multiscreen Index.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/top-u-s-pay-platforms-lost-2-3-million-subs-in-q1\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Top U.S. Pay Platforms Lost 2.3 Million Subs in Q1 - TVUSA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The top ten U.S. pay-TV providers shed 2.33 million customers in the first quarter of this year, bringing their combined base down to 75 million, per the informitv Multiscreen Index.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/top-u-s-pay-platforms-lost-2-3-million-subs-in-q1\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVUSA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-05-08T14:10:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-05-11T13:29:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2017\/07\/informitv-q1-520.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"319\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mansha Daswani\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mansha Daswani\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/top-u-s-pay-platforms-lost-2-3-million-subs-in-q1\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/top-u-s-pay-platforms-lost-2-3-million-subs-in-q1\/\",\"name\":\"Top U.S. Pay Platforms Lost 2.3 Million Subs in Q1 - TVUSA\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2020-05-08T14:10:09+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-05-11T13:29:03+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/#\/schema\/person\/83da304c8bad8bfdb3edd7eb47cfe5ad\"},\"description\":\"The top ten U.S. pay-TV providers shed 2.33 million customers in the first quarter of this year, bringing their combined base down to 75 million, per the informitv Multiscreen Index.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/top-u-s-pay-platforms-lost-2-3-million-subs-in-q1\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/top-u-s-pay-platforms-lost-2-3-million-subs-in-q1\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/top-u-s-pay-platforms-lost-2-3-million-subs-in-q1\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Top U.S. Pay Platforms Lost 2.3 Million Subs in Q1\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/\",\"name\":\"TVUSA\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/#\/schema\/person\/83da304c8bad8bfdb3edd7eb47cfe5ad\",\"name\":\"Mansha Daswani\",\"description\":\"Mansha Daswani is the editor-in-chief and associate publisher of World Screen. She can be reached on mdaswani@worldscreen.com.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/author\/mdaswaniworldscreen-com\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Top U.S. Pay Platforms Lost 2.3 Million Subs in Q1 - TVUSA","description":"The top ten U.S. pay-TV providers shed 2.33 million customers in the first quarter of this year, bringing their combined base down to 75 million, per the informitv Multiscreen Index.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/top-u-s-pay-platforms-lost-2-3-million-subs-in-q1\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Top U.S. Pay Platforms Lost 2.3 Million Subs in Q1 - TVUSA","og_description":"The top ten U.S. pay-TV providers shed 2.33 million customers in the first quarter of this year, bringing their combined base down to 75 million, per the informitv Multiscreen Index.","og_url":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/top-u-s-pay-platforms-lost-2-3-million-subs-in-q1\/","og_site_name":"TVUSA","article_published_time":"2020-05-08T14:10:09+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-05-11T13:29:03+00:00","og_image":[{"width":600,"height":319,"url":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2017\/07\/informitv-q1-520.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Mansha Daswani","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Mansha Daswani","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/top-u-s-pay-platforms-lost-2-3-million-subs-in-q1\/","url":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/top-u-s-pay-platforms-lost-2-3-million-subs-in-q1\/","name":"Top U.S. Pay Platforms Lost 2.3 Million Subs in Q1 - TVUSA","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/#website"},"datePublished":"2020-05-08T14:10:09+00:00","dateModified":"2020-05-11T13:29:03+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/#\/schema\/person\/83da304c8bad8bfdb3edd7eb47cfe5ad"},"description":"The top ten U.S. pay-TV providers shed 2.33 million customers in the first quarter of this year, bringing their combined base down to 75 million, per the informitv Multiscreen Index.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/top-u-s-pay-platforms-lost-2-3-million-subs-in-q1\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/top-u-s-pay-platforms-lost-2-3-million-subs-in-q1\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/top-u-s-pay-platforms-lost-2-3-million-subs-in-q1\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Top U.S. Pay Platforms Lost 2.3 Million Subs in Q1"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/#website","url":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/","name":"TVUSA","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/#\/schema\/person\/83da304c8bad8bfdb3edd7eb47cfe5ad","name":"Mansha Daswani","description":"Mansha Daswani is the editor-in-chief and associate publisher of World Screen. She can be reached on mdaswani@worldscreen.com.","url":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/author\/mdaswaniworldscreen-com\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}