This database tracks the quarterly performance of 33 pay TV providers in North America for the Q1 2016 to Q4 2021 time period and includes number of subscribers.
After breaking a string of eight consecutive quarters of losses in Q3 2020, U.S. pay TV providers once again saw subscribers fall in Q4 2021, losing 662K subscribers, bringing the total number of pay TV households in the U.S. to 79.6M. Overall, U.S. pay TV services lost 4.46M subscribers over the past four quarters.
North American Pay TV Provider Performance Benchmarking is updated quarterly and is published approximately 8-10 weeks after the close of each quarter. A 5-year rolling forecast for pay TV in North America and globally can be found in our Subscription TV Forecast, which is produced twice a year.