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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Leichtman: Pay TV Added 10K Subs in Q1 ]]></title>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Mike Farrell ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                        <dc:description><![CDATA[ null ]]></dc:description>
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                                <figure class="van-image-figure pull-" data-bordeaux-image-check ><div class='image-full-width-wrapper'><div class='image-widthsetter' ><p class="vanilla-image-block" style="padding-top:56.25%;"><img id="zmWu7ZaSHe6PYFf8HA7XpD" name="" alt="" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/zmWu7ZaSHe6PYFf8HA7XpD.jpg" mos="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/zmWu7ZaSHe6PYFf8HA7XpD.jpg" align="" fullscreen="" width="" height="" attribution="" endorsement="" class="pull-"></p></div></div></figure><p>Leichtman Research Group estimated that the pay TV business added about 10,000 video subscribers in the first quarter, a number that could have been bigger if not for heavy losses at AT&T’s U-verse.</p><p>According to LRG president and principal analyst Bruce Leichtman, the pay TV business ended the first quarter with 94.1 million video customers – 49.1 million from the cable sector, 34 million from satellite and 11.1 million from telco TV providers.</p><p>The top nine cable providers added 50,000 video customers in the quarter compared to a loss of 65,000 in the prior year. Satellite TV service providers added 305,000 customers, compared to a gain of 95,000 in the previous year. The satellite numbers were bolstered by contributions from Dish Network’s over-the-top service, Sling TV.  Not including Sling TV, satellite added about 175,000 net new subscribers in the period, compared to a loss of 74,000 in Q1 2015.</p><p>The top telco TV providers lost 344,000 subscribers in the quarter, compared to a gain of 140,000 customers last year. Driving those result was a loss of 380,000 subscribers at U-Verse, which Leichtman called the largest quarterly loss by any single provider ever.</p><p>“While DirecTV and top cable providers had a comparatively strong quarter in 1Q 2016, their gains were largely offset by a historically weak quarter for AT&T U-verse,” Leichtman said in a statement. “Overall, the traditionally strong first quarter for the pay-TV industry was tepid this year. Despite slight gains in the quarter, net adds in 1Q 2016 were down by about 160,000 from a year ago.”</p>
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