AT&T Raises First Year Fees For New DirecTV, AT&T TV Customers
Despite the growth of the cord-cutting trend across the country, AT&T revealed Monday in a somewhat low-key way that it has raised rates for new subscribers to its DirecTV satellite TV and AT&T TV (new premium live streaming) services by listing higher monthly rates on…
DirecTV Offers Free Year Of HBO Max To Certain New Satellite Subscribers
AT&T continues to leverage the May 27th launch of its HBO Max premium streaming services to entice subscribers to its struggling DirecTV satellite-based subscription TV service. Most recently, the company announced it is offering HBO Max free for one year to new subscribers to the…
Traditional Pay-TV Subscriptions Continued To Decline In Q1
Despite the surge in viewership of online streaming content during the COVID-19 sheltering period, subscribers to traditional pay-TV services like cable, satellite and telco-TV continue to dwindle at an alarming rate. The top 10 U.S. pay-TV service providers hemorrhaged a cumulative 2.33 million subscribers during…
Viewer Losses Continued For DISH Satellite As Sling TV Gained
The cord-cutting trend continued to eat into DISH Network’s satellite-based pay-TV business in 2019, following the company’s recently reported fourth quarter earnings that showed total video subscriber churn over the course of the year. DISH Network reported last week that combined satellite and streaming accounts…
Nielsen: U.S. TV Homes Top 120.6 Million For 2019-20
There are 120.6 million TV households in the United States for the upcoming 2019-2020 season, according to final estimates recently released by media measurement firm Nielsen. The firm’s National Television Household Universe Estimates indicated a small bump up in the number of homes with televisions…
Study: Cord Cutting To Climb 19.2% By The End Of 2019
The rate by which traditional U.S. pay-TV subscribers are cutting the cord in favor of more price friendly over-the-air and over-the-top programming distribution alternatives is ratcheting up in a big way. A report released Tuesday by research firm eMarketer forecasts the cord-cutting trend will climb…
AT&T Reports Mounting Pay-TV Subscriber Losses
AT&T’s extravagant $61.7 billion acquisition of direct-to-home satellite TV giant DirecTV three years ago continues to go sideways in light of the corporation’s controversial ongoing retransmission battles and just-released 2019 second-quarter financial statement. AT&T reported it hemorrhaged 946,000 total pay-TV subscribers across its various platforms…
More DirecTV Customers Stand To Lose CBS Channels
DirecTV direct-to-home satellite TV customers in some of the largest markets in the country were faced with losing access to local CBS programming as a retransmission agreement stalemate between the service’s parent AT&T and the television network inched toward an 11 p.m. deadline tonight (Friday)….
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