How to Use pay-TV in a Sentence

pay-TV

noun

• 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
• Millions of pay-TV subscribers are cutting the cord every year.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 4 Mar. 2024
• 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
• But that growth coincided with the money-printing machine that is the pay-TV business.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 July 2023
• Paying roughly $3 billion each, Jio took the streaming rights, while Disney secured only the pay-TV rights.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 4 Jan. 2024
• How about Charter pay-TV subscriber losses during the blackout?
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Sep. 2023
• But customers have been canceling their pay-TV packages at alarming rates.
  — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2023
• 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
• 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
• The joint venture could accelerate the shift away from the traditional and more lucrative pay-TV model.
  — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 29 Aug 2024