pay-TV

Majority want to continue to access local channels, regardless of the plan they choose

• By Phil Kurz
  May 14, 2018

The average household is paying nearly double in subscription costs to pay TV since 2000, representing an inflation-adjusted annual rate of 74 percent, according to Kagan.

• By Tom Butts
  Apr 26, 2018

Nearly half of OTT subscribers use an antenna, according to LRG report

• By Jeff Baumgartner
  Apr 9, 2018

With so many UIs now resembling smartphones, users are finding it increasingly difficult to navigate the converged TV landscape.

• By Anthony Smith-Chaigneau
  Apr 6, 2018

Fears among pay-TV providers about the growing trend of cord cutting are being offset by a new phenomenon in which viewers are adding OTT services on top of existing pay-TV subscriptions, even when they spend more overall.

• By Claudia Kienzle
  Apr 5, 2018

Amplifying a growing trend, 21 percent of U.S. pay TV customers say they subscribe to an online video service from their MVPD, up from 10 percent a year ago, according to a Parks Associates study.

• By Jeff Baumgartner for Multichannel News
  Apr 2, 2018

16 percent increase since 2015 coincides with decline in pay-TV subscriptions

• By Michael Balderston
  Mar 15, 2018

The latest from three separate research organizations reveals traditional pay-TV is in decline

• By Phil Kurz
  Mar 13, 2018

With a new focus on acquiring content that was previously relegated to pay TV services, social media and tech giants like Facebook, Amazon and Google are focusing more on disrupting traditional pay TV, director of USC’s Annenberg School of Media Innovation Lab and author Jonathan Taplin told an audience at the opening keynote of the NCTC Winter Educational Conference.

• By Mike Farrell
  Feb 13, 2018

While many fret over the future of pay TV in a world that increasingly is going digital, the overall global numbers of pay TV subscribers increased by 60 million from the third quarter of 2016 to the third quarter of 2017

• By Michael Balderston
  Jan 11, 2018

While there is an expectation that virtual operators like SlingTV and DirecTV Now will continue to eat into traditional pay-TV services share of the market, The Diffusion Group projects that there will be less to go around by the time 2030 arrives.

• By Michael Balderston
  Nov 29, 2017

The growth of internet-delivered pay-TV services in the third quarter of 2017 weren’t enough to counteract the loss of subscribers to cable, satellite and phone companies.

• By Michael Balderston
  Nov 15, 2017

The cord-cutting trend won’t be slowing down any time soon according new predictions from Barcalys analyst Kannan Venkateshwar.

• By TV Technology Staff
  Jul 24, 2017

The U.S. pay-TV market didn’t have the best of starts to 2017 according to a new report from Dataxis.

• By Michael Balderston
  Jul 18, 2017

Total global pay-TV subscribers have now reached 969 million, according to the latest Digital TV Research report.

• By James Groves, TVB Europe
  Jun 12, 2017

The threat of cord cutting has been a cloud over pay-TV providers for a while now, but according to a recent report by The Diffusion Group, the last two years have been a potential turning point.

• By Michael Balderston
  May 11, 2017

A new data analysis from Leichtman Research Group shows that the largest U.S. pay TV providers lost about 795,000 net video customers in 2016, compared to a pro forma loss of around 445,000 subscribers in 2015.

• By TV Technology Staff
  Mar 17, 2017

While we’re certainly no longer in the days where people had a pair of rabbit ears on top of their TV sets, the use of antennas are making a little bit of a comeback according to a recent report from Parks Associates.

• By Michael Balderston
  Jan 19, 2017