The U.S. multichannel video market is in “a...
The U.S. multichannel video market is in “a subscriber doldrums,” said SNL Kagan in an email Tuesday. Combined cable, satellite and telco video provider subscriber counts are lower by more than 200,000 subscribers than they were in Q2 2012, SNL…
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Kagan said. Since Q2 2011, the industry research firm found “only a small uptick in combined subscriptions of 121,000 for the past 24 months,” it said. However, cable, satellite and phone company video providers lost 366,000 video subscriptions in Q2 2013, an 11 percent improvement over the same quarter last year, said SNL Kagan. Cable subscriber losses of 607,000 in Q2 doubled the amount in Q1, but represent a “slight” improvement over Q2 2012’s figure, said the email. Satellite had the biggest quarterly decline in subscribers, but the DBS numbers still are a small increase compared to the figures from the previous 12 months, said SNL Kagan. “The telcos offered the clearest source of optimism.” The phone companies are taking video share from cable and satellite, gaining more than 400,000 net adds -- “significantly more subscribers than in the year-ago quarter,” said SNL Kagan. Telcos had more than 10.7 million total video customers as of mid-2013, the company said.