Cord
cutters unite: Pay TV
providers lost subscribers for
first time ever in 2013
The pay TV industry may **t be sweating the
Cord cutting trend just yet but for the
first time in
2013 it had a reason to take **tice. According to
new data from Leichtman Research Group, pay TV
providers posted a net loss of 104,000
subscribers in 2013, the
first time the pay TV industry has
ever lost subscribers year-over-year. The biggest losers were
Time Warner Cable and
Comcast, which respectively
lost 825,00 and 305,000 pay TV
subscribers each. Given how poorly both those companies have fared in
multiple customer satisfaction surveys, this isn't too surprising.
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