{"id":792024,"date":"2021-07-17T10:23:50","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T10:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2021\/07\/17\/att-loses-fewer-premium-video-subscribers-in-second-quarter\/"},"modified":"2021-07-17T10:23:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T10:23:50","slug":"att-loses-fewer-premium-video-subscribers-in-second-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2021\/07\/17\/att-loses-fewer-premium-video-subscribers-in-second-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&amp;T loses fewer premium video subscribers in second quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AT&#038;T Inc said on Friday it lost fewer subscribers in its premium video business, which houses satellite TV unit DirecTV, in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The company said in a regulatory filing its premium video subscribers fell by 473,000 in the period, compared with a drop of 887,000 a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, the satellite TV industry has lost subscribers to online streaming options such as Netflix Inc and Amazon.com Inc&#8217;s Prime Video.<\/p>\n<p>The wireless carrier had sold a 30% stake in DirecTV to private equity firm TPG Capital in February, seeking to slow the trend of cord-cutting by investing in customer experience and providing premium video content.<\/p>\n<p>The deal led to the creation of New DirecTV, which includes DirecTV, AT&#038;T TV and web-based TV service U-verse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AT&#038;T Inc said on Friday it lost fewer subscribers in its premium video business, which houses satellite TV unit DirecTV, in the second quarter. The company said in a regulatory filing its premium video subscribers fell by 473,000 in the period, compared with a drop of 887,000 a year earlier. Over the years, the satellite TV industry has lost subscribers to online streaming options such as Netflix Inc and Amazon.com Inc&#8217;s Prime Video. The wireless carrier had sold a 30% stake in DirecTV to private equity firm TPG Capital in February, seeking to slow the trend of cord-cutting by investing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-792024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}