How to Use pay-TV in a Sentence

pay-TV

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Definition of pay-TVnext
  • EchoStar’s total pay-TV subscriber base, as of the end of the first quarter, stood at 8.178 million.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 May 2024
  • The company made a sharp strategic turn amid the upheaval in the pay-TV sector that year.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 19 Sep. 2024
  • The bottom line: This deal will be welcomed by the pay-TV industry.
    — Tim Baysinger, Axios, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Both have lost nearly half of their subscriber base since 2013, which is considered the high point of the pay-TV era.
    — Tim Baysinger, Axios, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Both have lost nearly half of their subscriber base since 2013, which is considered the high point of the pay-TV era.
    — Tim Baysinger, Axios, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Millions of pay-TV subscribers are cutting the cord every year.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Less than half of U.S. homes subscribe to traditional pay-TV services and the share has been falling rapidly over the past decade.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The big picture: Venu was seen as a way for the three companies to reach the increasing number of sports fans who do not subscribe to a pay-TV service.
    — Tim Baysinger, Axios, 16 Aug. 2024
  • But that growth coincided with the money-printing machine that is the pay-TV business.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 July 2023
  • Paying roughly $3 billion each, Jio took the streaming rights, while Disney secured only the pay-TV rights.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 4 Jan. 2024
  • If Disney is behind it, this practice of genre-specific bundles seems to be where the pay-TV business is headed.
    — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2024
  • How about Charter pay-TV subscriber losses during the blackout?
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Sep. 2023
  • That would have created the largest U.S. provider in the declining pay-TV industry with around 18 million customers.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 22 Nov. 2024
  • But customers have been canceling their pay-TV packages at alarming rates.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Television and streaming don’t look a whole lot more promising, as the linear pay-TV industry faces long-term declines.
    — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
  • This may be due in part to the robust demand for live sports content, even as traditional pay-TV subscriptions decline.
    — Lydia Mee, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
  • The Boomerang website and app officially shutters on Sept. 30, while the channel will continue to be available via partner pay-TV providers.
    — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Meanwhile, Comcast’s core cable and telecom business once again lost pay-TV and broadband subscribers in the second quarter.
    — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 July 2024
  • The joint venture could accelerate the shift away from the traditional and more lucrative pay-TV model.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Ten years later, while Comcast remains one of the nation’s largest pay-TV distributors (along with Charter), the number of subscribers has dropped to 12.8 million.
    — Brad Adgate, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Paramount said Tuesday that when the rebrand happens, the company will work with its pay-TV partners to include access to the streaming product for linear subs.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2023
  • The carriage agreements with pay-TV providers prevent the news networks from replicating their channels for a direct-to-consumer offering.
    — Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Nonetheless, as my colleague Meg James has written, this newest dispute comes amid a stressful period for the pay-TV business.
    — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2024
  • That’s because they don’t get paid nearly as much from pay-TV distributors in retransmission fees as the cable networks.
    — Alex Sherman, CNBC, 5 Dec. 2024
  • For pay-TV platforms that are supposed to attract subscribers by producing premium product, this seems like a problem.
    — Judy Berman, TIME, 17 July 2024
  • The traditional television business is in big trouble, and has been for a long time, thanks to cord-cutting, streaming and all the other factors hammering the linear pay-TV bundle.
    — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Foxtel is the country’s biggest pay-TV broadcaster with over 4.6 million subscribers across Foxtel and its streaming services.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 1 June 2023
  • The fight came exactly a year after Disney waged a high-profile battle with a different pay-TV operator.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 14 Sep. 2024
  • The write-down brought into sharper focus the collateral damage of consumers’ shift from pay-TV subscriptions to streaming video platforms.
    — Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The legacy cable channels are already generating tons of cash, though with the pay-TV business declining the need to make streaming work as a business model is only growing.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2023

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