Ouch. How is Sling losing subs?
Why is all of Live TV (except YTTV) losing subscribers.
I believe it is because of a pricing and less and less new content issues.
Which I do not really just blame Dish or any other provider for, I blame the content providers for jamming so many channels, many of which provide nothing but reruns, but increase the monthly bill because of so many extra per sub fees for each channel.
Or when they split up channels, like when Fox made FX into three (FXX, FX Movies), when that happened, the per sub fee for FX stayed the same, but then they were getting that fee for two more channels, from where the content was already on FX, also increased the rerun programming on those channels.
I do wish Providers had the foresight to understand what all these extra channels was going to customers and their monthly, but when it was happening, there was no other choice fot programming except OTA, so they chose to ignore, just like they did when cord cutting started.
So now we have today, the rerun programming is available free on services like Pluto, the most popular new content from Paid Live TV, plus the exclusive shows, on streaming services and cord cutting is getting worse because they now have competition in the streaming services.
Can Cable/Satellite save themselves, yes, but must start now, get rid of all those extra channels, lower the bill, like in the YTTV range, tell those who produce the programming that paid Live TV needs more new content, but not the low rated fake reality stuff.
Will it be painful, yes, but is a little pain now better then out of business in 2-3 years?
By the way, Charter/Spectrum kind of did this, dropped some of the extra Disney owned channels, but in the way you expect a cable company to handle that, price did not go down and actually went up in January.
Charter/Spectrum just had their biggest Quarterly lost ever reported.
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