Friday, June 5, 2020

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


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