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    A look at cable, satellite TV earnings reports

    Here is a summary of earnings reports for selected cable and satellite TV companies and what they reveal about the industry's prospects:

    April 19: Verizon Communications Inc. added 180,000 FiOS video customers to end the quarter with 4.4 million.

    April 24: AT&T Inc. added 200,000 U-verse TV customers to reach 4 million.

    April 26: Time Warner Cable Inc. added a net 592,000 cable TV customers, mainly through the acquisition of Insight Communications, a cable TV company with customers in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio. That deal closed in February.

    May 2: Comcast Corp. says it lost 37,000 cable subscribers, roughly the same number it lost in the same quarter last year. It ends the quarter with 22.3 million.

    May 3: Cablevision Systems Corp. says it added 7,000 TV subscribers in the first quarter, to end at 3.26 million. It was the first TV subscriber for the company in two years.

    May 7: Dish Network Corp. says it gained 104,000 subscribers to end with 14.1 million.

    May 8: DirecTV Inc. says it gained 81,000 subscribers in the U.S. to end with 20 million. In Latin America, it gained 593,000 to end with 8.5 million.

    Charter Communications Inc. says it added 27,000 video customers to end with 4.3 million.

     

    42 comments

    • N  •  15 days ago
      Dont belive these numbers at all, Netflix and netflix type service is going to put these bloodsuckers out of business, and its long overdue.
    • publicenemy number one  •  16 days ago
      Contracts will be cancelled at the end of the promotional period..
    • Don L  •  Tularosa, New Mexico  •  27 days ago
      We are not paying for entertainment anymore...we are payingt for advertisement!
    • TAJ  •  La Crosse, Wisconsin  •  27 days ago
      The more I get slammed with sudden fees,,, get forced into upgrades, and find hidden twists in my contract... the more I am going to pitch the whole concept... not sure I need to stream everything to be entertained.... Finding out I like the natural world, and other people face to face....
      • TheEndOfObamagedden 27 days ago
        Stop talking about it and do it.
      • TAJ 27 days ago
        For sure.... just waiting for the contracts to expire... you know there are "quit early fees"..... freedom has its costs..... ;-)
    • tmine  •  Richardson, Texas  •  27 days ago
      I hate Time-Warner. Worst service and customer service ever.
      • john 27 days ago
        i thought so too, until i went to dish
      • yahoo user 27 days ago
        Everyone upstate says that they just hate Time Warner.
      • Paul 27 days ago
        ALL the major cable ripoffs are in a statistical tie for THAT honor.....
    • James Shue  •  27 days ago
      Earnings would mean dollar figures and none are shown. This is subscriber information and if you do not report for example that FIOS added customers and is at 4.4 million compared to year over year or quarter over quarter no one has any idea if this is a good growth record.
    • messershmidt987  •  27 days ago
      cut cables
    • John  •  Truckee, California  •  27 days ago
      Where are the earnings reports?
    • Chuck  •  Atlanta, Georgia  •  27 days ago
      Yahoo censors you are pathetic
    • killer  •  27 days ago
      Although there are laws that prohibit it, there are reports of cable companies that are still using exclusivity contracts with HOAs in private communities.
      • TheEndOfObamagedden 27 days ago
        Doesn't matter. Use your own method for getting TV. When they send you a notice, save it and ignore it. When it gets to where they are making legal threats, complain to the FCC. The HOA will get a cease and desist order along with a threatened fine of as much as 10,000 dollars per day from the date of the first written notice to you. I did this to my HOA, and their first notice was delivered 3 years prior to the first confrontation in an HOA meeting. I was prepared with a copy of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, a copy of the notice, and a copy of one case where an HOA was fined from that first notice. When I told them that if they continued I'd file a formal complaint and they'd be liable for almost 11 million in fines, or almost 50,000 per household, that the members of the HOA would have to cough up for in increased dues because insurance won't cover federal fines, it was dropped instantly. Told them that if I started getting harassed with stupid stuff like my lawn or anything else I'd go ahead and file the complaint anyway, never had another problem from them. And, I still live there. I guess my little antenna on the side of the house wasn't worth the 50,000 they'd have been liable for.
    • mad_mike_j  •  26 days ago
      We are waiting for Fios so we can dump Time Warner. Hurry up already.
    • ya  •  Millington, Tennessee  •  27 days ago
      so happy I don't pay excessive charges for communication toys. No cell, no cloud, just home internet cable n phone. Just don't need this many distractions in a day.
    • Chuck  •  Atlanta, Georgia  •  27 days ago
      Drop these pedophile "entertainment" outlets....let the liberal left loons have it all to themselves...only way to win is to fight.
    • Paul  •  Wichita, Kansas  •  27 days ago
      All you cable company poll watchers SHOULD be paying attention to the comments before you the way of several other companies that laughed all the way to the bank....for awhile.....
    • Dan  •  27 days ago
      I'm with Dishnetwork. That's not the issue. I wonder, the headline I clicked on was about an earnings statement of cable and satellite TV providers.... no earnings revealed, and no satellite company info... so why use the word earnings or satellite in the headline? I guess just another attempt of our mainstream press to fool us about something... sheesh...
    • James  •  Rock Hill, South Carolina  •  27 days ago
      Cable,Direct TV, Dish Net., They are ALL to High,and too many channels.You cant watch but 1 at a time.You should be billed ( somehow ) for ONLY what you watch ( $ 0.10 per channel per day)...NO UNIONS or BIG GOVERNMENT ALLOWED to operate ANY Part of it either
    • Doomsday  •  27 days ago
      Iam about ready to fire directv. besides mostly reruns.
    • SuperG  •  Portland, Oregon  •  28 days ago
      This reads like a new subscriber report, not an earning report. Jeeze, and I never even took a Journalism class. Great job AP!
    • Stephen  •  Greenville, South Carolina  •  27 days ago
      I have over-the-air antenna and, for free, she ain't bad!
      • Boot_Obummer 27 days ago
        i dumped cable and went with over the air. Best choice around
      • bpasq2000 26 days ago
        Great......so how are you using your Internet?
    • Whatever  •  27 days ago
      These service providers give thieves a bad name.
      • Donald 22 days ago
        Shocking to see so many mindless lemmings gave you a thumbs-up for such a simple-minded comment. Cable is not even close to being a necessity and no one puts a gun to your head forcing you to sign-up. It's not theft when you voluntarily throw your money at them. Try thinking harder.
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