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AT&T Loses Whopping 1.4 Million TV Customers in Q3

Oct 28, 2019  •  Post A Comment

“[F]or the third quarter of 2019, AT&T’s pay-TV business continued to be in free-fall, crimping revenue and hurting the bottom line,” reports Variety.

The story says, “AT&T dropped a net 1.16 million premium TV video subscribers, including at DirecTV, while its over-the-top AT&T TV Now service dropped 195,000 net customers, for a total net loss of 1.36 million video subs. The company attributed about 225,000 of those losses to programming blackouts. As of the end of the period, AT&T had 21.6 million total video customers, which included 1.1 million AT&T TV Now subscribers — down 3.6 million from 25.2 million a year earlier.

“[AT&T CEO Randall] Stephenson suggested the rate of AT&T’s pay-TV losses peaked in Q3, noting that the third quarter is historically weak for the pay-TV business on [a] call with investors. He promised significant improvement in the pay-TV numbers for Q4 with subscriber trends getting better moving into next year. The DirecTV satellite business continues to provide strong free cash flow but Stephenson said the recently debuted internet-delivered AT&T TV service will become the standardized, primary go-to-market television offering and HBO Max will ‘become the workhorse’ for the video business.

“In the video business, ‘we ultimately get down to two products,’ Stephenson said: satellite TV and a streaming service premised on HBO Max platform that will expand beyond subscription VOD to eventually incorporate live programming. Stephenson officially announced that AT&T is forecasting 50 million HBO Max subscribers in the U.S. by 2025.”

 

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  4. He promised significant improvement in the pay-TV numbers for Q4 with subscriber trends getting better moving into next year and he officially announced that AT&T is forecasting 50 million HBO Max subscribers in the U.S. by 2025. Hoping that his promise will be true when the time comes.| Deck Pro

  5. Through 2022, the company pledged to make “no major acquisitions” and laid out a plan which it expects to drive “significant” growth in margins and earnings while allowing the company to invest in growth areas and continue to pay down debt. In 2020, the company said it expects to sell $5 billion to $10 billion of non-strategic assets to help pay down debt. https://waterlooturf.com/

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    In response to concerns raised by an activist investor, AT&T unveiled a three-year capital allocation strategy, under which it said it will continue to sell off portions of the corporation to strengthen its balance sheet.
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  18. AT&T had 17.1 million premium TV subscribers (down 16.3% year on year) and 683,000 AT&T TV Now members (down 40.3% year on year) after the third quarter. AT&T’s Entertainment Group’s total operating revenues declined 10.2% yearly to almost $10 billion. | Resurface concrete

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