The top 13 U.S. multichannel video programming distributors lost...
The top 13 U.S. multichannel video programming distributors lost about 105,000 net video subscribers in 2013, Leichtman Research Group said in a press release (http://bit.ly/1hjx0ds). Annual net MVPD sub additions were about 280,000 subs fewer in 2013 than in 2012,…
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it said. The top nine cable companies, including Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Cablevision, lost about 1.7 million video subscribers last year, compared to a loss of more than 1.4 million subs in 2012, LRG said. The top telephone providers, AT&T U-verse and Verizon FiOS, added more than 1.4 million subs last year, compared to nearly 1.3 million net additions in 2012, it said. Satellite TV providers added 170,000 video subscribers last year, compared to 288,000 net additions in 2012, it said. The MVPDs’ modest losses represent only about 0.1 percent of all subscribers, LRG said. Cable providers now have a 52 percent share of the top MVPD subs in the U.S. compared to a 58 percent share three years ago, it said.