Rob,
Your percentages (if they are yours) don't add up. I add up a total of 51.806
million Comcast cable TV customers. The analog (basic) only customers would be
47 percent of the total. While less than half, it is still close to half. A
quarterly loss of only 147,000 is still only a loss of 0.6 of 1 percent of the
basic subscription rate. I don't consider that to be that rapid of a loss.
Losing 600,000 in one year (four times the quarterly loss) is still not that
huge of a drop. Although a loss is a loss as trends go.
A lot will depend on the economy, and cable rates. We got a notice in the mail
just the other day that our cable provider is raising its rate yet again for
Family service (which is Basic plus Extended Basic, but nonetheless just analog
service) by another $4, bringing that total, with taxes, to somewhere around
$65. This increase is apparently due to higher carriage fees they are being
charged, which I don't see getting any better. I will be curious to see how
many people are priced out of having cable television by this trend. I can see
myself in that situation very quickly, especially as jobs and income are
affected.
Kevin Anderson
--- On Thu, 10/30/08, Rob de Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Rob de Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [Swprograms] BBC Newscast Shifts Lineup on U.S. Public TV
> Stations
> To: "'Shortwave programming discussion'" <swprograms@hard-core-dx.com>
> Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008, 9:40 AM
> To follow up on this, Comcast released these figures
> yesterday for the most
> recent quarter:
>
> Basic subscribers: 24.406 million down 147,000
> Digital subscribers: 16.8 million up 417,000 (69% of
> customers)
> Advanced subscribers: 10.6 million up 300,000 (43.5%
> of customers)
> (advanced means they have HD or DVR service, too.)
>
> At the present pace, they will have no significant analog
> customers remaining by
> the 2nd half of 2011 even if they do nothing further to
> force the changeover.
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