Dish Network’s Customer Base Slips Under 12 Million Subscriber losses continue in satellite, Sling TV units as company turns its attention to phone services
By Drew FitzGerald and Dave Sebastian Feb. 19, 2020 Dish Network Corp. lost nearly 200,000 television customers in the fourth quarter as the satellite company laid plans to invest in a still-unfinished wireless phone network. The Englewood, Colo., company shed 100,000 satellite-TV customers during the last three months of 2019 and dropped another 94,000 subscribers at Sling, its low-cost bundle of channels streamed over the internet. U.S. customers continued to abandon pay-TV services last year as many viewers switched to on-demand services from Netflix Inc. and new entrants from Apple Inc. and Walt Disney Co. Those services still lack live sports and news but offer viewers more flexible entertainment at lower prices. Dish lost 336,000 accounts in 2019 to end the year with just under 12 million subscribers. AT&T Inc., which owns Dish rival DirecTV, lost more than 4 million U.S. pay-TV accounts and ended the year with 20.4 million subscribers. ... https://www.wsj.com/articles/dish-networks-customer-base-slips-under-12-million-11582116284 _______________________________________________ Medianews mailing list [email protected] http://etskywarn.net/mailman/listinfo/medianews_etskywarn.net
