Comcast announced Wednesday that it had lost 96,000 customers for the quarter, its fourth straight quarter
of subscriber losses, and slightly worse than analyst projections.
Not exact matches
If the results from ESPN (which is traditionally seen as almost immune to market forces, because
of its hold on sports programming) got the market nervous about cord - cutting and the
loss of traditional TV
subscribers, Thursday's comments from Sanford Bernstein analyst Todd Juenger poured gasoline on those fears.
Just a couple
of weeks ago, any media company with significant TV - related assets — including Disney, Comcast, 21st Century Fox and Time Warner — got hammered by investors, after a
loss of subscribers at ESPN (which is owned by Disney) triggered fears about cord - cutting and the rise
of streaming services.
That is among the findings
of a new report from Englewood, Colo. - based research firm IHS which shows Canadian cable providers lost over 10,000
subscribers in Q2, making for three straight quarters
of losses (satellite has recorded
losses for five straight quarters).
Charter Communications tumbles 15 percent after the company reports a bigger - than - expected
loss of video
subscribers.
Before its devastating Supreme Court
loss, the Barry Diller - backed upstart allowed
subscribers in several U.S. cities to watch and record live TV signals via an innovative cloud - based antenna and DVR combo for $ 8 to $ 12 a month, much to the ire
of big broadcasters.
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Of that total, Charter reported 90,000
subscriber losses.
A
loss of cable
subscribers, and the revenue that comes with them, doesn't mean a completely equal
loss in total revenue for the industry, however.
Six
of the largest U.S pay TV providers posted a total
of 723,000
subscriber losses during the past quarter.
«We think that basic cable is kind
of the weakest point
of the media ecosystem because that's where you're really getting hurt by
subscriber losses.
As Karl Bode at DSL Reports put it in his brief analysis
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of them continue the slow trickling
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Six
of the largest U.S. pay TV providers posted
subscriber losses during the past quarter.
However, investors will also be very much focused on the company's television properties, especially sports network ESPN, which struggled with
subscriber losses last year that spooked the market into an industry - wide sell - off
of media stocks.
Almost every question on the earnings conference call was about ESPN and the ongoing
loss of both
subscribers and profits.
The job cuts follow a
loss of cable
subscribers and a miss in its quarterly earnings last summer.
Whether it's a
loss or not, Dave Chappelle's specials will get a lot
of press and bring in new
subscribers.»
As the most popular paid streaming service in the world (Pandora has more total users at 80 million, but only 4 million paying
subscribers), Spotify has every reason to celebrate a booming 2015 — though the glaring holdouts from Swift and Adele are undoubtedly thorns in its side in terms
of potential revenue
losses and bad PR.
As broad market conditions have been eroding over the past month,
subscribers of The Wagner Daily newsletter who have been following the signals
of our market timing system should be quite happy now because they would have been out
of all long positions
of individual stocks just a few days before last Friday's (October 19) big decline, thereby avoiding substantial
losses and the pain that is now being felt by traditional «buy and hold» investors right now.
I'd love to hear, as you construct your traditional distribution arrangements, especially for ESPN but your general Cable Networks, would you be willing to talk about what type
of protections or options you generally might look for in the case that
subscriber losses accelerate or are more than you expected?
Spotify (NYSE: SPOT) is down 6.9 % after hours, to $ 157.69, following its first public earnings report (with a forecast
of continuing
losses ahead) and word that it's hit 75M paying
subscribers.
Assuming Amazon.com has 20 million Prime
subscribers, here is an illustration
of the impact
of a 10 - 15 %
loss of subscribers:
Here's a first look at Spotify's Q1 earnings, which are in line with the guidance it offered up earlier this spring: In its first - ever quarterly report since going public last month, the streaming music company reported revenue
of 1.14 billion euros, operating
losses of 41 million euros, 75 million paid
subscribers and a gross margin
of 24.9 percent.
Loop estimates that Disney would need 6 million streaming
subscribers at a price
of $ 4.99 per month to offset the 3 - percent
loss rate
of viewers due to cord - cutting.
Faced with a
loss of viewers to Internet services such as Netflix, cable programmers like Viacom are seeking to increase the per -
subscriber fees they get from pay - TV distributors including Dish.
The company had told Wall Street to expect revenue
of up to 1.15 billion euros,
losses of 50 - 80 million euros, up to 76 million paid
subscribers and a gross margin
of up to 24 percent.
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Comcast Corp. posted strong first - quarter earnings growth, despite continuing cable TV
subscriber losses, and formally submitted its $ 31 billion proposal to buy Sky PLC, one
of several deals it has contemplated that could transform its business and roil its rivals.
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Spark Networks attributed its
loss of revenue to a reduction in average paying
subscribers and ARPU for its Christian and Jewish Networks segments.
«Instead
of losing 100,000 end
of period
subscribers each year, suffering EBITDA
losses of 50 % every single year, our EBITDA for 2014 will literally be dramatic and the cash in the bank increasing substantially each month.
«Spark Networks Q2 Results:
Subscribers Up, Revenue $ 12M, $ 95K
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Their
losses today can only be turned into profits tomorrow if they pay publishers and authors less per «read» (which on average is $ 2) or if they substantially increase their monthly fee to their users or they maintain a high number
of subscribers who don't use their services much.
Also they allow and limit to certain features by their will, like there is no option for building email list or sometimes they will provide you with this feature but make it costly and
loss of subscribers per month too can be held.
The drop is greatly attributed to the poorly handled announcement to split its service and the
loss of subscribers due to a price hike.
Loss of page views and feed
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of the pros (branding; chance to move to a better platform; fresh start with no baggage) and cons (
loss of «google juice;»
loss of subscribers / regular readers during the transition)
of scrapping his current blog.
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«Comcast saw a
loss of 8,000 video
subscribers but gained 387,000 Internet
subscribers,» he told the E-Commerce Times.
At the current pace
of customer
loss and acquisition, Sprint could be overtaken by T - Mobile as the third - place carrier in the U.S. in number
of subscribers in just a couple
of short years.
The
loss of support comes as Apple Music continues a charge toward catching up with Spotify's paid
subscriber count, which The Wall Street Journal recently estimated could happen this summer.
Since Spotify and Pandora are reporting operating
losses, there are only three metrics that you can scale the pricing
of these companies to: the number
of subscribers, total revenues and gross profits.