North American legacy pay TV providers (cable, satellite, IPTV) will continue to lose subscribers, falling from 99.25 million at year-end 2017 to 85.83 million by 2022, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of -2.9% (2017-2022).
With legacy pay TV subscriptions (cable, satellite, IPTV) continuing to decline, revenues peak in 2016. As a result of downward pricing pressure from vMVPDs and SVOD, consumer spend on pay TV services (cable, satellite, IPTV, vMVPDs) will fall from $87.83 (€81.07) per month in 2017 to $79.80 (€73.66) per month in 2022. Resulting in pay TV revenues in North America falling from $110.63 billion (€102.11 billion) in 2017 to $100.77 billion (€93.01 billion) in 2022.
This forecast provides HHs, subscriptions, revenue and average monthly spend for North America for the 2010 – 2022 time period. Key segments include TV HHs, Free TV HHs, Free TV HHs w/SVOD, legacy pay TV HHs, pay TV HHs, Pay Satellite, cable, IPTV, vMVPDs, and SVOD .