Posted on 08/12/2019 5:04:35 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Pay-TV keeps taking hits in subscribers, with Leichtman Research Group finding in its latest quarterly report that about 1.53 million people dropped their pay-TV subscriptions during the second quarter of 2019. This is the fourth consecutive quarter of decline, per Leichtman, and more than a million of subscribers cutting their service from the same time period in 2018 (420,000).
Consisting of the top 14 pay-TV services in the U.S. making up about 93% of the market, which includes satellite, cable, phone and vMVPDs. Satellite companies lost about 855,000 subscribers during Q2, with DirecTV accounting for 778,000 alone in its fifth straight quarter of net losses; Dish’s losses of 79,000 resulted in its best quarter since Q2 2014.
Cable, meanwhile, had its worst quarter since Q2 2014, experiencing a net loss among the top seven companies of 455,000. Comcast took the biggest hit, but is still the top cable provider by a wide margin.
The top telephone providers lost about 100,000 video subscribers—more than double its Q2 2018 numbers—and vMVPD services even suffered a loss of 120,000 subscribers; they experienced a net add of 385,000 in Q2 2018.
In the past year, the top pay-TV providers have lost about 5,015,000 subscribers; the year prior saw a loss of 1,060,000 subscribers.
“This marked the fourth consecutive quarter of record pay-TV industry net losses,” said Bruce Leichtman, president and principal analyst for LRG. “With an increased focus on acquiring and retaining profitable subscribers, DBS services accounted for more than half of the net pay-TV losses in 2Q 2019, and 63% of the losses over the past year.”
Yes and there are packages.
We don’t use them since we boycott the 49ers and baically only watch Giant baseball. Each geographical area has sport coveragen from A to Z sports for teams in that area.
We pay 5 or 6 $ month for CBS on demand because of a few shows we like. So any local or national sporting event on CBS is available at no extra cost.
At first we had ABC on Demand for my wife. Her words about her favorite shows on ABC, “They are aimed at hostile lesbians, haters of America and Trump.”
So we cancelled it. I did the same with Fox on Demand for the same reasons.
The Comcast business version is faster and cheaper?
Yes and more reliable.
There is no tv cable. We stream basically any tv show we want to watch.
Our cul de sac has a ton of college students and recent grads living at home or visiting their parents or grandparents.
Each one has a phone, a tablet, some gaming device and a computer.
My old Comcast internet, when all of these kids were home using their tech gear 24/7 would bog down.
This doesn’t happen since my business internet was added. We have all types of speed and supposedly 5g on some wifis.
We get two phone #’s, a blazing internet and Comcast email and get Gmail also for a little over $100/month.
Our local Comcast office signed me up for the Business Package. The setup man was excellent, and he even helped to like the system to our little Prime Box.
Our tv is a Samsung going on 4 years old, and it works great. Some of the shows are spectacular re color and definition.
Besure to take your old modem and other Comcast gear into the local office to turn them in.
Plus they treat you like a chump for being a loyal customer.
Your price never does anything but rise, while at the same time they stuff your mailbox with promotional offers for new customers.
I remember that DirecTV had the Major League Baseball Extra Innings — it’s their baby, I believe — and had both broadcasts of any out-of-market game. (For example, if the Yankees are playing the Red Sox, unless you’re in New York or Boston, you could get either the Yankees broadcast or the Red Sox broadcast.)
They also had something called Sports Pack, which got you regional sports networks from around the country, and if you had both you never actually had to use the Extra innings channels, as tehy would feed the game on the RSN.
I think those are illegal in certain parts of the country.
Where do you get one, and how would you hook it up?
Could you hook your streaming services up to your TV instead of just a (smaller) computer screen?
Plus they treat you like a chump for being a loyal customer.
Your price never does anything but rise, while at the same time they stuff your mailbox with promotional offers for new customers.
Yes, as lone of our SIL’s calls it, “Getting a Royal $crewing for being a loyal customer.
Thanks. Good advice you just gave and we got re taking the old Comcast gear into the office and get a receipt re what you returned.
“Could you hook your streaming services up to your TV instead of just a (smaller) computer screen?”
Yes
Did you try the Marathon antenna? It does wonders for me.
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After 1 more month i will receive 100 Visa credit card ,from Frontier Which will pay for any money problem I need to get rid of Frontier
I USE FRONTIER ONLY FOR STREARMING—FROM AMAZON PRIME
You can download Speedtest to your phone to check your speed
Downloading and Uploading
HAPPY FOR 6 WEEKS NOW...
After 1 more month i will receive 100 Visa credit card ,from Frontier Which will pay for any money problem I need to get rid of Frontier
I USE FRONTIER ONLY FOR STREAMING—FROM AMAZON PRIME
You can download Speedtest to your phone to check your speed
Downloading and Uploading
HAPPY FOR 6 WEEKS NOW...
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