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AT&T, which is trying to chip away at its large debt load and manage through a period of secular decline in its traditional pay-TV businesses, has set a round of price hikes at DirecTV and U-verse. Beginning January 19, 2020, some customers of the satellite and cable outlets will see their monthly packages rise by $1…

Netflix is available in more than 300 million pay-TV households worldwide, according to a new report from UK research firm Ampere Analysis. More than 50 million of those have come during 2019, the report said, with Western Europe powering much of the growth. In North America, Netflix is available in about 86% of all…

Dish Network, whose core satellite TV business has been steadily declining of late, reported better-than-expected financial results in the third quarter, including a rare gain in pay-TV subscribers. Earnings per share totaled 66 cents on a diluted basis, ahead of the forecast of 61 cents by Wall Street analysts…

The largest pay-TV providers in the U.S. saw video subscriber losses more than triple to 1.53 million in the second quarter, according to the latest report from Leichtman Research Group. The tally marks is up dramatically from the 420,000 losses in the second quarter of 2018. LRG based the figures on its findings for…

With cord-cutting continuing to accelerate, the number of U.S. households without a traditional pay TV subscription is quickly approaching those that have one, according to a new study by eMarketer. The number of households cutting the cord jumped another 19.2% in 2019, the research firm found. This year, the number…

While the pay-TV bundle is getting slimmer, major telecom company T-Mobile is placing a strategic bet that customers will still spark to a hardware-based, higher-priced offering. TVision Home will launch Sunday in Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and…

The European Union has accepted promises from Sky and Hollywood major studios not to engage in “geoblocking” of their content, ending a years-long antitrust case without fines or punitive action. The landmark outcome will open national pay-TV markets that had long existed in their own silos, allowing consumers across…

Describing Dish Network’s negotiating approach as “bizarre,” Univision CEO Vince Sadusky said the Hispanic media giant’s carriage dispute with the major satellite operator is “likely permanent.” While the executive has issued previous warnings in the same vein, his comments during Univision’s third-quarter earnings…

Cord-cutting, the bane of the traditional TV business, continues to outpace estimates and will climb nearly 33% this year to reach 33 million adults in the U.S., according to a new study by eMarketer. The company defines cord-cutters as any adult who has canceled pay-TV service and continues to live without it. The…

EXCLUSIVE: The concept of channel surfing appears to be going out with the tide. Rather than flipping on live TV to see what’s on, viewers are increasingly defaulting to on-demand sources like SVOD services, according to a new study by Hub Entertainment Research. In the latest edition of its annual “Decoding the…

As 21st Century Fox continues its pursuit of full control over European pay-TV group Sky, chairman James Murdoch won re-election today despite significant shareholder opposition. Nearly 22% of all shareholders, and more than 48% of independent ones, opposed Murdoch being allowed to continue in the post. Earlier this…

A new study suggests that pay-TV providers might not be able to count on today's 18- to 34-year-olds as longtime future customers. At the Cable Show today in Washington, Pivot — Participant Media's cable network that launches August — released the first of what says will be an annual industry report about how…