How to Use pay-TV in a Sentence
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EchoStar’s total pay-TV subscriber base, as of the end of the first quarter, stood at 8.178 million.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 May 2024
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Millions of pay-TV subscribers are cutting the cord every year.
—Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 4 Mar. 2024
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Less than half of U.S. homes subscribe to traditional pay-TV services and the share has been falling rapidly over the past decade.
—Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2024
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But that growth coincided with the money-printing machine that is the pay-TV business.
—Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 July 2023
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Paying roughly $3 billion each, Jio took the streaming rights, while Disney secured only the pay-TV rights.
—Patrick Frater, Variety, 4 Jan. 2024
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How about Charter pay-TV subscriber losses during the blackout?
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Sep. 2023
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But customers have been canceling their pay-TV packages at alarming rates.
—Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2023
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Television and streaming don’t look a whole lot more promising, as the linear pay-TV industry faces long-term declines.
—Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
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Meanwhile, Comcast’s core cable and telecom business once again lost pay-TV and broadband subscribers in the second quarter.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 July 2024
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The joint venture could accelerate the shift away from the traditional and more lucrative pay-TV model.
—Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2024
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Paramount said Tuesday that when the rebrand happens, the company will work with its pay-TV partners to include access to the streaming product for linear subs.
—Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2023
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For pay-TV platforms that are supposed to attract subscribers by producing premium product, this seems like a problem.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 17 July 2024
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Foxtel is the country’s biggest pay-TV broadcaster with over 4.6 million subscribers across Foxtel and its streaming services.
—Patrick Frater, Variety, 1 June 2023
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The legacy cable channels are already generating tons of cash, though with the pay-TV business declining the need to make streaming work as a business model is only growing.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2023
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The move comes amid much upheaval in the traditional pay-TV landscape as major programmers race to reach consumers who have cut the cable cord or who never signed up for traditional channels.
—Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2023
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The reason for the shrinkage is that subscription revenue continued to fall for the third year in a row, reducing 4% due to a reduction of five million pay-TV homes and stagnant average revenues per user.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 4 May 2023
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Years of cord-cutting may have had the perverse effect of stabilizing scores in the former category, where pay-TV operators averaged a score of 70.
—Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 4 June 2024
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The pay-TV company did commit to finishing all shows in physical production, while those in development were paused.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 25 June 2024
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Disney is attempting to walk a fine line by preserving the lucrative pay-TV bundle while separately offering products with fewer channels to sports fans who don’t want to pay more than $100 a month.
—Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2024
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The problem for the entertainment conglomerates was that blowing up the pay-TV bundle meant incinerating the fees that cable and satellite companies pay for their channels.
—Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2024
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Programmers also are grappling with declining ratings and a lower penetration of pay-TV homes, which result in less revenue produced by stations.
—oregonlive, 3 July 2023
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Advertisement The aim of the platform, announced in February, is to provide a destination that will appeal to younger sports fans who are bypassing traditional pay-TV subscriptions.
—Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024
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As streaming has fueled the steady erosion of the pay-TV industry, the moves by otherwise competing media companies to partner up on streaming bundles looks like an attempt to reconstitute cable TV.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 8 May 2024
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Comcast’s core cable and telecom business again lost pay-TV and broadband subscribers in the first quarter, the latter being a data point that Wall Street analysts will analyze particularly closely.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Apr. 2024
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DirecTV executives felt they were being unfairly besmirched for trying to hold a line on costs for the company’s 13 million subscribers at a time when traditional pay-TV distributors are struggling to retain customers in the streaming era.
—Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2023
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The latest pay-TV customer losses follow Charter introducing rate increases to pass through higher programming expenses.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Apr. 2023
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