The subscriber base also nearly doubled with 40 million
subscribers at quarter - end.
Not exact matches
By contrast, IPTV provider Telus has seen an increase of 65,000 in that same period of time, while Bell's last
quarter was its strongest yet for its Fibe TV offering
at 50,000 new
subscribers.
The bottom line is that adding 276,000 new
subscribers contributed
at most $ 10 million to the company's revenue in the fourth
quarter (probably less, since many new sign - ups get discounts).
After companies from cable giant Comcast to satellite TV titan
AT&T, which owns DirecTV, reported their fourth
quarter results, the total number of pay TV
subscribers dropped 3.4 % from a year earlier, the highest rate of decline since the trend of cord cutting emerged in 2010, analysts
at MoffettNathanson Research reported on Thursday.
In seven consecutive
quarters, the number of Netflix
subscribers increased by
at least 1 million.
So if you can take the loss to pretty much zero, and it was a relatively minor loss in the last
quarter, and be putting the
subscriber needle in the right direction, you're
at least showing, whether it's a partner or a buyer or however it comes down, «Hey, there's a bottom here.
At the end of the third
quarter, Netflix had 69.2 million
subscribers around the world, of which 66 million are paid; it has nearly 24 million paid
subscribers internationally.
Management said Apple Music subscriptions are up 70 % without specifying a figure, but Apple Music chief Jimmy Iovine told Billboard
at the end of September (around the same time that this fiscal
quarter closed) that the service now has 30 million paid
subscribers.
Profits
at the New York Times jumped by two - thirds in the first
quarter of 2018 compared with the same period a year ago, thanks to a boom in digital
subscribers.
LOS ANGELES (TheStreet)-- The media stock swoon continued on Thursday as disappointing second -
quarter earnings from Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox (FOXA) and Sumner Redstone's Viacom (VIAB) prolonged the downtown in television stocks that began earlier this week when Disney (DIS) acknowledged
subscriber decline
at its powerhouse sports network ESPN.
Telus had 8.352,000 wireless
subscribers at the end of the
quarter, up 3.3 per cent from the same time last year and a net increase of 63,000 from the end of this year's first
quarter.
Walt Disney (DIS) shares tumbled 9.2 % on Wednesday after the company reported record profits but acknowledged there had been «modest
subscriber losses»
at ESPN during the second
quarter.
Its active
subscriber count stood
at 98,000 for this
quarter — a relatively similar number to last August «s figure of 98,600.
JDate's
subscriber base returned to its pre-price increase levels, finishing the third
quarter at 74,078 paid
subscribers with a more favorable mix toward three and six - month subscription plans.
Subscribers for the Jewish Networks were
at 89,792 for the 3rd
quarter.
We achieved moderate annual revenue increases in Jewish Networks and Other Affinity Networks, improved Contribution margins to 74 %, cut Operating Expenses by 19 %, drove annual Adjusted EBITDA to record levels
at a 28 % margin and returned capital to stockholders by using cash flow to repurchase 21 % of the shares outstanding
at the start of 2008... we are disappointed with second half trends and in particular the fourth
quarter, as revenue and
subscribers decreased sequentially in each online segment.
We estimated that Match.com UK had about 291,000 paying
subscribers as of
quarter 2, 2009,
at the time of the sale (see Story).
And if you look
at AT&T's most recent
quarter, the company snared many wireless
subscribers via emerging devices like e-readers.
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World of Warcraft
subscribers were up 600,000 to a worldwide total of over 7.4 million
at the end of the
quarter, driven by excitement for the upcoming Warlords of Draenor launch and the release of that expansion's opening cinematic.
Netflix also revealed that 42 percent of
subscribers streamed
at least 15 minutes of video in the third
quarter, compared to just 22 percent
at the same time last year.
Dish - owned streaming TV service Sling TV now has 2.21 million
subscribers at the end of the fourth
quarter, the company announced this morning.