Cable and satellite TV sinks again as online streaming soars
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Leichtman Research Group
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Summary
The six companies had a total of 47 million TV subscribers at the end of 2018.DirecTV and Dish made up some of their subscriber losses by nudging customers toward the online versions of their services. These three services lost a combined 244,000 TV subscribers in 2018, dropping to 8.99 million total, despite U-verse gaining 47,000.By contrast, Leichtman's survey of the US broadband market found that cable companies added 2.9 million Internet subscribers in 2018, achieving a total of 64.3 million.Further ReadingNetflix and other online video are killing cable in customer satisfactionDSL and fiber companies lost 472,000 broadband subscribers in 2018, dropping to a total of 33.9 million.Cable companies have tried to stem video losses by imposing data caps on their broadband services.
As said here by Jon Brodkin