Dish Announces Further Pay-TV Subscriber Losses, Re-merger Plan With EchoStar
Dish Network reported that it lost 294,000 more net pay TV subscribers in Q2-2023, and separately announced it will merge back with its sister corporation EchoStar in a move to free up cash flow in the face of stiffer telecom competition. Dish announced Tuesday that…
Survey: Video Programming Services May Have Hit Their Peak Subscriber Growth
TV programming providers are facing significant “headwinds” in generating continued subscriber growth as the era of “peak TV” comes to an end, according to newly released data from Hub Entertainment Research. The Portsmouth, N.H.-based media analyst has just released its “Monetization of Video” survey showing…
Study: 5.9M U.S. Subscribers Dropped Traditional Pay-TV Services In 2022
So called cable-cutting induced subscriber churn continued to wreck havoc on the U.S. subscriber base of traditional pay-TV operators in 2022, according to a recently released study of publicly reporting service providers. Some of the largest regularly reporting U.S. multi-channel-video pay TV providers lost some…
Ergen: DISH, DirecTV Merger Talk Would Be More Likely After Election Day
The long-proposed merger between the country’s two direct-to-home satellite TV services could be moving closer to reality, if recent comments by DISH Network chairman Charlie Ergen prove to be more than wishful thinking. Ergen, speaking to analysts following the company’s Q3 earnings report Wednesday, said…
LRG: Top Pay-TV Cos. Dropped 1.2M Subs In Q2 As Broadband Climbed
The attrition from traditional pay-TV services continued in the second quarter of 2021 even as some of those same services (cable and wireline telco providers) gained broadband subscribers, according to research released by the Leichtman Research Group (LRG) Tuesday. In a sign that the “cord-cutting”…
Access To HBO, Cinemax Returns To Dish Satellite TV Subscribers
The Dish Network satellite TV services revealed through Twitter announcements this week that HBO and Cinemax services will be returning to the pay-TV platform, bringing with it access to premium HBO Max app for takers of the channels. This will should be good news for…
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