Only AT&T U-verse Loses No Net Video Subscribers in First Quarter 2020

It will not surprise you that leading cable and telco subscription video providers lost customers in the first quarter of 2020. What might surprise you is that AT&T’s U-verse service lost zero customers in the quarter. That was the exception to the rule, which was that service providers lost customers in the quarter. 

Pay-TV Providers

Subscribers at end of 1Q 2020

Net Adds in 1Q 2020

Cable Companies
Comcast	20,845,000	(409,000)
Charter	16,074,000	(70,000)
Cox	3,820,000	(45,000)
Altice	3,137,500	(41,700)
Mediacom	693,000	(17,000)
Atlantic Broadband	306,252	(2,386)
Cable One	303,000	(11,000)

Total Top Cable

45,178,752

(596,086)

Satellite Services
DIRECTV	15,136,000	(897,000)
DISH TV	9,012,000	(132,000)

Total DBS

24,148,000

(1,029,000)

Phone Companies
Verizon FiOS	4,145,000	(84,000)
AT&T U-verse	3,440,000	0
Frontier	621,000	(39,000)

Total Top Phone

8,206,000

(123,000)

Streaming Service
Hulu + Live TV	3,300,000	100,000
Sling TV	2,311,000	(281,000)
AT&T TV NOW	788,000	(138,000)

Total Streaming

6,399,000

(319,000)

Total Top Providers

83,931,752

(2,067,086)

source: Leichtman Research