Sony TV Shipments Fell, As Sales Dollars Increased In Its Fiscal 2021
Sony’s Entertainment Technology & Services business segment saw its global unit shipments of TV sets decline -8.6% from 9.3 million in the company’s fiscal year ended March 31, 2020 to 8.5 million in FY 2021, according to the company’s supplemental financial reporting. However, the benefit…
Dish Reports Continued Satellite TV Subscriber Churn As 5G Ramps Up
The cord-cutting woes continued for Dish Network in the first quarter of the year, according to the satellite and live-streaming company’s latest financial report Friday. Dish Network showed a loss of 462,000 pay-TV accounts in the first quarter of the year, compared to a loss…
Netflix’ Hastings Mulls Offering Lower Priced Tier As Sub Count Drops
Neflix CEO Reed Hastings made some interesting disclosures Tuesday in the company’s Q1 financial reporting, including a loss of 200,000 net subscribers, addressed by some moves to support profitability. With the Q1 subscriber drop-off, the company said its current worldwide subscriber count now stands at…
Satellite TV Subscriber Attrition Continued In DISH Q4 Results
The traditional satellite TV business continued to suffer subscriber attrition in the fourth quarter of 2021, following the release of financial results from DISH Network Thursday. The direct-to-home satellite TV and over-the-top streaming services resource ended 2021 with 10.71 million total subscribers, including 8.22 million…
Report: Roku Studying Possibility Of Making Its Own Roku TVs
Roku reportedly has conducted focus group studies exploring the possibility of manufacturing and marketing Roku TVs under its own brand. According to a Business Insider story this week citing only an individual “familiar” with the activity, Roku has allegedly started conducting focus groups this month…
Disney+ Continued To Rack Up Subscribers In Q4-2021
The Walt Disney Co. reported robust revenue and subscriber growth from its streaming services over the fourth quarter of 2021, including continued strong subscriber growth for the Disney+ app. Disney reported subscription video on demand (SVoD) streaming service subscriptions across its portfolio totaled 196.4 million,…
Amazon Reveals Fee Hike For Prime Memberships
Amazon used the release of its Q4-2021 financial report to reveal it is planning to increase the subscription fee 22% for its Amazon Prime video and shipping membership services in the U.S. The international e-commerce giant made the disclosure at the same time that it…
Netflix Subscriber Growth Surges In Q3-2021
Netflix reported this week that it added 4.4 million subscribers during Q3-2021, more than doubling the number from the previous quarter, and far above the forecasted 3.50 million. The No. 1 global streaming giant ended the quarter with 213.56 million subscribers. The Q3 growth, which…
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