As reported by the informitv Multiscreen Index, the top 10 television service providers in the US lost 559,000 customers between them in the first quarter of this year, representing a quarterly subscriber loss of 0.63%, which is the largest loss seen so far. It equates to a loss of 162,000 subscribers for the top 10 services in the previous quarter and a small gain of 18,000 compared to the first quarter of 2016.
The 10 service providers in the table still have 87.93 million subscribers between them and account for 75% of all TV homes in the US. Individual service provider figures for the quarter, and comparisons with the same quarter in 2016, are as follows: