{"id":937631,"date":"2025-06-10T09:25:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T03:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=937631"},"modified":"2025-06-10T10:02:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T04:32:24","slug":"sharp-decline-in-pay-tv-subscriptions-leads-to-577000-job-losses-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/10\/sharp-decline-in-pay-tv-subscriptions-leads-to-577000-job-losses-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharp decline in pay-TV subscriptions leads to 577,000 job losses: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: India\u2019s cable television industry has undergone a significant contraction over the past seven years, with an estimated 577,000 cumulative job losses between 2018 and 2025, driven largely by a sharp decline in pay-TV subscribers, according to a report released on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Pay-TV subscriber base dropped from 151 million in 2018 to 111 million in 2024 and is expected to fall further to between 71-81 million by 2030, said the report, \u2018State of Cable TV Distribution in India\u2019, jointly prepared by the All India Digital Cable Federation (AIDCF) and EY India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: India\u2019s cable television industry has undergone a significant contraction over the past seven years, with an estimated 577,000 cumulative job losses between 2018 and 2025, driven largely by a sharp decline in pay-TV subscribers, according to a report released on Monday. Pay-TV subscriber base dropped from 151 million in 2018 to 111 million in 2024 and is expected to fall further to between 71-81 million by 2030, said the report, \u2018State of Cable TV Distribution in India\u2019, jointly prepared by the All India Digital Cable Federation (AIDCF) and EY India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-937631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937631","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}