Traditional/Streaming Live TV Providers Losses, 1st Quarter 2025 Edition

[Bruce]

Altice lost 87,7000 video subscribers.

Total for the year so far-1,183,700 lost so far.

Dish is up tomorrow.

Altice USA Reports First Quarter 2025 Results

Altice USA (NYSE: ATUS) today reports results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2025. Dennis Mathew, Altice USA Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, sai...

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[Bruce]

Total for the year so far-1,183,700 lost so far.

Dish is up tomorrow.

Dish/Sling lost 383,000

DISH TV 187,000 subscribers, bringing its total to 5.503 million.

Sling TV, experienced a slightly larger net loss of 196,000 subscribers

Total lost for the year 1,566,700

So with DirecTV average estimated lost of 500,000 ( their average for the last 3
years), Cox around 100,000, looking at, roughly, 2 Million lost this quarter.

DISH & Sling TV Lost 383,000 Subscribers in The First Quarter of 2025 | Cord Cutters News

DISH Network, a subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation, saw a continued erosion of its pay-TV subscriber base in the first quarter of 2025, losing a net total of 383,000 customers across its satellite DISH TV service and its streaming platform, Sling TV. The figures indicate the ongoing challenges...

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[Bruce]

So with DirecTV average estimated lost of 500,000 ( their average for the last 3
years), Cox around 100,000, looking at, roughly, 2 Million lost this quarter.

Late reporting numbers, YTTV lost a estimated 500,000 subs in the first quarter, with the above, at 2.5 Million who left in the first quarter, I believe that is the highest churn ever for Paid Live TV in a quarter.

Now looking at about a 8 Million loss for the entire year.

Moffett estimates that YouTube TV lost 500,000 subscribers in the first quarter.

Pay-TV Falls To 1987 Levels, But Wall Street Analyst Thinks It Could Be “Finding The Long-Imagined Bottom”

Cord-cutting is still driving significant declines in pay-TV subscribers, but traditional pay-TV operators appear to be showing signs of being able to stop the bleeding.

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[savarese04]

YTTV rate increases + end of football definitely had a net negative effect. I do think that things will normalize for IP-based "cable," especially as the traditional players pull back and focus on internet services instead.

I've been swapping my credit card for YTTV every couple months, as various $20 off offers have come up. Currently my AMEX is giving me $20 off for 3 months, prior to that, it was a Chase Visa.