The second-quarter earnings season is underway, and FierceVideo is tracking the results from streaming media companies, programmers, pay TV operators and broadcasters throughout the period. Check out our updates on companies in this segment.
Also, make sure to check FierceWireless and FierceTelecom, as they also track earnings for companies in the wireless, pay TV and wireline industries.
Keep checking back here for updates.
July 16
Netflix
Netflix said it added a record number of new paid subscribers in the second quarter but warned that subscriber growth will slow down in the back half of 2020.
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- visit Netflix's investor relations page
July 20
Limelight Networks
Limelight Networks, a provider of video delivery and edge cloud services, reported improved second-quarter financials as its traffic reached record levels.
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July 23
AT&T/WarnerMedia
AT&T lost another 954,000 premium and streaming TV subscribers in the second quarter but credited its new AT&T TV service with helping to offset the continued losses.
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- visit Warner Media's investor relations page
July 24
Verizon
Verizon posted a net loss 81,000 Fios Video subscribers in the second quarter, continuing its steady decline and dropping it below four million subscribers.
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July 28
Akamai
Peak traffic on the Akamai platform exceeded 100 terabits per second every day in the second quarter, according to CEO Tom Leighton.
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- visit Akamai's investor relations page
July 30
Altice USA
Altice USA reported a net loss of 35,000 video subscribers in the second quarter but nevertheless still grew its residential and overall revenues.
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- visit Altice USA's investor relations page
Amazon
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Apple
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Comcast/NBCUniversal
Comcast lost close to 500,000 video subscribers during the second quarter, just as the cable operator predicted earlier this summer.
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- visit Comcast's investor relations page
Facebook
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Google
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July 31
Charter
Charter Communications shook up the cord-cutting narrative by adding 102,000 net residential video subscribers in the second quarter.
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- visit Charter's investor relations page
August 3
Harmonic
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August 4
AMC Networks
AMC Networks emerged from a second quarter that was less than kind but could have been much worse. Net income tumbled to $15 million ($.28 per diluted share) from $129 million ($2.25 per diluted share) in the year-ago Q2.
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- visit AMC's investor relations page
Fox
The novel-coronavirus pandemic punched a hole in Fox’s advertising revenue, but that wasn’t enough to leave a major dent in Fox’s fourth-quarter earnings results.
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- visit Fox's investor relations page
The Walt Disney Company
The Disney+ streaming service constituted one of the few pluses in an ugly quarter for Disney that saw revenues slump to $11.78 billion from $20.26 billion a year ago. So the company is placing a round of new bets on streaming—including an unprecedented direct-to-home debut for the delayed drama Mulan on that service.
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- visit Disney's investor relations page
August 5
Discovery, Inc.
Discovery CEO David Zaslav spent a lot of time on today’s Q2 2020 earnings call, motoring around the subject of Discovery’s direct-to-consumer plans.
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- visit Discovery's investor relations page
Nexstar Media
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Roku
Roku found itself with more viewers than ever in its second quarter but still no profits, thanks to increases in its own expenses and the coronavirus pandemic bruising the advertising business for everyone.
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- visit Roku's investor relations page
Sinclair Broadcast Group
- visit Sinclair's investor relations page
August 6
Cable One
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Lionsgate
- visit Lionsgate's investor relations page
ViacomCBS
ViacomCBS is two quarters into the combined company, and its CEO Robert Bakish spent some time on the company’s Q2 2020 earnings call talking about the future rebranding and “super-sizing” of CBS All Access.
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- visit Viacom's investor relations page
August 7
Dish Network
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August 10
TiVo/Xperi
TiVo, which is now part of Xperi, said that its recent Stream 4K connected TV device is selling faster than any of the company’s previous hardware releases.
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- visit TiVo's investor relations page
August 13
FuboTV
Virtual MVPD fuboTV posted a net loss of $99.8 million during the second quarter as its subscriber count held mostly steady.
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- visit fuboTV's investor relations page