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| 08 March 2021
In a dismal last quarter that summed up a dismal year for the industry, the top ten TV service providers in the US collectively lost 1.265 million subscribers in Q420 2020, leading to a total of 5.98 million losses between them over the course of the full year says the latest informitv Multiscreen Index.
In the fourth quarter, nine of the top ten services lost television subscribers, with Sling TV gaining 10,000. Charter Communications was the only service among them not to report a net loss of television customers in 2020. The crumb of comfort in the findings was that the total was only slightly less than their loss of 6.08 million the previous year.
The latest informitv Multiscreen Index indicates that the top ten television service providers in the U.S. shed almost 6 million customers in 2020, more than 1.25 million in the fourth quarter alone.