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US subscription TV posts another quarterly subscriber loss - 0 views

  • able operators in contrast have continued to churn record numbers of basic subs having lost 700,000 subscribers in Q3 and 760,780 in Q
  • e companies have been losing half a million subscriber
  • During the same period, cable operators kept moving their existing analog customers to high-ARPU digital packages at healthy rate
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  • PTV and satellite sectors compensated for churned cable subscribers (and more) by netting over 770,000 new subscribers per quarter
  • the total number of TV subscriptions grew by almost two million subscribers since Q3 2008, and the growth in digital cable subscriptions increased the sector's video ARPU by a healthy 7 per cent.
  • y did subscription TV households shrink since 1 April, 2010
  • churn contagion has reached the digital side
  • digital growth seems to be slowing down for most other cable operators as well
  • They collectively added 380,000 digital subs in Q3 2010, down from 636,000 in Q2 and 860,000 in Q1
  • reduced digital subscriber growth rates in the near future or even net losses.
  • ge (in basic or digital subscriptions alike) has been blamed on macroeconomic weakness.
  • Providers insist that they have not seen evidence of 'cord-cutting'
  • ite' TV packages, like the one being launched by TWC, are meant to counter the adverse impact of the economy by making subscription TV affordable
  • confirmed that these losses have been caused, not by higher than usual gross churn rates, but by historically low demand for new connections.
  • ative of 'cord-abstinence' whereby younger, more tech-savvy households forgo subscription T
  • h the long-term decline in cable continuing. A
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    long-term decline in cable continuing
Alex Street

YouTube's top channels rival cable audiences - 1 views

  • top five channels on YouTube get the same number of average daily viewers as the top five U.S. cable channels
  • 180 million U.S. Internet users watched online video content i
  • average of 18 hours per viewer
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  • Separately, comScore says 180 million U.S. I
  • top five channels on YouTube get the same number of average daily viewers as the top five U.S. cable channels
  • top five channels on YouTube get the same number of average daily viewers as the top five U.S. cable channels,
Alex Street

Netflix Says Customers Keep Cable, Aren't Cord Cutting | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllT... - 0 views

  • We still see no evidence that our subscribers cut cords at a greater rate than the population.”
  • least one recent survey, whi
  • Cable companies like Comcast insist that they don’t see evidence of it. But Ivan Seidenberg, who runs cable competitor Verizon, says it’s inevitable.
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  • total multi-channel video subscribers is continuing to grow in the US.
  • we haven’t seen any evidence of tha
  • t: In the past year, his service has added 5.8 million subscribers
Stephe Taylor

Time Warner Cable, i.TV Select Digitalsmiths | Digitalsmiths - 0 views

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    More straws in the wind - Time Warner Cable adopts personalised search technology
Alex Street

Netflix could beat cable TV in Latin America - Online Video News - 0 views

  • Netflix could become the primary subscription video service that many Latin American consumers pay for.
  • Less than a quarter of residents pay for cable or satellite
  • Brazil and Argentina — broadband penetration is actually greater than pay TV adoption.
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  • C]ompetition from Pay TV providers (and TV Everywhere-like services) is weak if not non-existent in Latin America
  • average broadband speed in the region to be about 2 Mbps
  • good enough for Netflix’s “Good” streaming quality, which is set at about 700 kbps
  • issue of broadband caps, which cropped up in Netflix’s Canadian rollout a
  • Brazilian ISPs have caps as low as 10 GB of data, which represents about 30 hours of content
  • 15-20 movies a month.
  • Goldman Sachs believes it was able to get good terms for catalog content in a region where studios weren’t able to monetize those assets
  • only thing holding Netflix back is having a recognizable brand throughout.
  • many potential users in Latin America likely have no idea what Netflix is.
  • Goldman Sachs expects the adoption rate to be much slower,
  • time it takes to break even in Latin America to be about twice as long as the 12 months Netflix expects it to take its Canadian venture to break even.
Alex Street

LG CNS Successfully Commercializes the First Smart Set Top Box in Korea - LG CNS News - 0 views

  • optimized to the demands of the cable broadcasting companies.
  • LG CNS h
  • n Android OS-based product that allows cable
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  • supports the ‘TV App Store’
  • current number of subscribers to domestic cable broadcasting is estimated at 15 million
Alex Street

FT.com / Comment / Analysis - Entertainment: A pointer to profits - 0 views

  • cash-strapped young are leading those shunning cable subscription
  • sector lost more than 700,000 subscribers in the US in the second quarter of the year
  • partly because of competition from satellite operators and telecommunications
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  • But new streaming or “over the top” services such as Hulu were also a factor,
  • For Netflix, the pay-TV industry is as ripe for revolution as the DVD rental market was a decade ago
  • etflix’s DVD service has amassed 15m subscribers in the past 10 ye
  • 60 per cent have already tried the service
  • Canada in the next few months and, next year, in the UK, a
  • ernet “thrives on inefficiency”
  • cable TV, “the inefficiency is in the cost
  • 4bn at its peak in the US in 2004 to $10.87bn in 2009
  • sing the money saved on postage as customers shift from its DVD subscription service to streaming.
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    "There's definitely some substitution taking place
Alex Street

Kabel Deutschland: Präsentation - 0 views

  • note that the presentation is available only in English languag
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    German cable landscape  PVR penetration overview
Alex Street

ANGA: Market overview - 0 views

  • cable provides approximately 19.8 million homes with TV.  
  • Download: Broadband Cable TV in Germany (PDF)
Alex Street

CNBC's Fast Money : Third of Young Netflix Users Cut Cable - CNBC - 0 views

  • 37 percent of Netflix subscribers aged 25 to 34 substitute Netflix for pay television
  • 30 percent of users between 18 and 24 are using Netflix’s streaming service instead of cable or satellite
  • Netflix story just works,” s
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  • Big Media has a small window of opportunity to control its own destiny,
  • major U.S. entertainment conglomerates control approximately 70 percent of all TV viewing through its
Alex Street

A2BTV - Your TV: Anywhere, Anytime! - 0 views

  • combination of the latest Slingbox™ technology and carrier-class hosting solution
  • high quality cable television
  • We will sign you up for your own cable TV account and install a real cable TV box in our facility for you. We also install your very own Slingbox video encoding hardware so you can access your TV online
Alex Street

Keeping the US Cable Industry Attractive | Bodhi Tree Blog - 0 views

  • substitute services is the biggest factor,
  • hyper competitive
  • profits are likely to decrease
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  • US Cable industry is characterized by large incumbents with dominant market share
  • net margin for the industry is relatively low at just 4.1%
  • due to the high capital investment needed to build the infrastructure, high programming costs, and the erosion of profits from substitute service
Alex Street

BlackArrow - BlackArrow and Fox Cable Networks Partner on Dynamic Advertising Trial for... - 0 views

  • Fox Cable Networks
  • Fox Cable Networks trial is using the sophisticated capabilities within the BlackArrow Sales Suite.
  • everage content information and anonymous subscriber data for audience addressability;
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    Clients of Blackarrow
Alex Street

TV market in Ireland - 0 views

  • TÉ1 and RTÉ2, had a combined market share of 36.5% in 2008
  • TV3 (launched in 1998) had an 11.4% market share, close to that of RTÉ2,
  • 61% of Irish households receive digital televisio
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  • Pay-TV households reached 1.09 million (75%)
  • divided between satellite and cable/MMDS
  • cable market is controlled by one operator UPC Ireland
  • Liberty Global of the second operator, NTL and its merger with Chorus).
  • IPTV market,
  • agnet networks, 3Play Plus, and Smart Telecom
Alex Street

TV market in Austria - 0 views

  • ORF1 and ORF2, achieved a combined average market share of 40.9
  • 2008 Communications Report published by the regulatory authority, KommAustria,
  • 5% of households rely on DT
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  • atellite is the most important mode of television reception in Austria, followed by cable
  • Premiere Österreich
  • Sky”,
  • many small cable operators in Austria
  • C. In March 2009, UPC Telekabel, had a total of 555,000 subscribers.
  • 75 000 subscribers in May 2009
  • TV platform AONtv (Aon Digital) i
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    roadcaster ORF. It
Alex Street

US pay-TV suffers record subscriber drop | Broadband TV News - 0 views

  • Verizon’s FiOS service continue to eat into the video business, growing their share from 4.3% in Q2 2009 to 6% in Q2 2010.
  • Cable suffered its worst quarterly video loss to date, loosing 711,000 subscribers,
  • Cable MSO’s share of combined video subscribers dropped to 61%, against 63.6% in the Q2 2009.
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  • ow housing formation and a high unemployment rate contributed to subscriber declines in the second quarte
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    US market encountered its worst ever second quarter performance
Alex Street

Wall Street firm: Netflix, Google to pressure cable | Media Maverick - CNET News - 0 views

  • Only a modest percentage of Netflix's overall users (17 percent) have dropped their cable service
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