How did pay TV distributors—including cable MSOs, IPTV operators and satellite providers—perform in 2017's third quarter? What about relevant programmers and technology companies? In this earnings summary, we list the results for the biggest pay TV industry players.
October 16
Netflix
As it did in its previous quarter, Netflix again outpaced its own expectations around subscriber growth and added 5.3 million new subscribers during the third quarter.
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October 19
Verizon
Verizon reported losses of 18,000 Fios TV customers in the third quarter, marking the third straight quarter in which it has lost pay TV subscribers.
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October 24
AT&T
Solidifying the notion that the linear DirecTV satellite TV platform is shrinking faster than AT&T thought it would when it bought the company for $49 billion, the service lost 251,000 customers in the third quarter.
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October 26
Comcast
Comcast said it lost nearly 125,000 pay TV customers in the third quarter but still managed to increase revenue in its cable division by 5.1%.
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Charter Communications
Charter Communications said it lost 104,000 pay TV subscribers in the third quarter, a loss Charter Chairman and CEO Tom Rutledge said is partly due to video piracy.
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Amazon
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November 1
Arris
Arris reported third-quarter revenue that was essentially flat year over year at nearly $1.73 billion, with its pay TV set-top sales declining, but the vendor enjoyed strong network sales built around its E6000 converged edge router business.
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Frontier Communications
Frontier is turning a corner in its California, Texas and Florida (CTF) markets as the company saw broadband additions return to pre-acquisition levels. However, its legacy markets continued to be challenged by a lack of meaningful broadband subscriber additions.
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Mediacom
Mediacom’s third-quarter 8-K filings continued to tell an all-too-familiar cable-industry story of growing residential broadband and business services revenue streams, both amid declining video metrics.
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November 3
Altice USA
Altice USA, in the words of one analyst, continued to “have its cake and eat it too” in the third quarter, growing revenue by 3.2% to $2.33 billion while expanding margins to 44.1%.
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November 8
Cable One
Despite operating in a footprint in which 70% of broadband competition comes from DSL operators, Cable One lost around 3,300 broadband customers in its legacy footprint in the third quarter.
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November 9
CenturyLink
CenturyLink continues to be challenged by cable’s aggressive DOCSIS 3.1 rollouts, particularly where it offers lower-speed broadband tiers, as the telco lost another 101,000 customers during the third quarter. The service provider ended the quarter with a total of 5.76 million customers.
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Dish Network
Dish Network reported a gain of 16,000 pay TV subscribers in the third quarter—with losses of 145,000 hurricane-impacted users in Puerto Rico notwithstanding and gains to its low-margin Sling TV virtual service factored in.
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Liberty Global
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November 13
WideOpenWest
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TBD
Synacor
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