If you look at the numbers in a vacuum, Comcast is losing over 2,586 Pay TV subscribers every single day. At that pace, about a million subs will vanish in the next 12 months. Or will they?
Our friends in Philadelphia also picked up 379,000 high-speed internet customers during the period, driving a 9.3% increase in broadband revenue to $4.72 billion. Broadband is a very profitable business. On Thursday’s earnings call, Comcast CFO Michael Cavanagh called broadband “the foundation of our customer relationships.” The trend is clear, but think about this…
Everyone who can configure a streaming server has an over-the-top (OTT), direct-to-consumer (DTC) play. Everyone. And that’s the point. Comcast is going to do just fine. Broadband customers are very profitable.
As for the networks and content providers who rely on affiliate revenue from MVPDs? That’s a different story. While losing a million pay TV customers won’t hurt Comcast’s bottom line, Comcast is going to use this fact of modern life to torture the cable networks that charge them per subscriber fees for their content.
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