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Dish Network[FONT="] lost a record 381,000 satellite TV subs in the fourth quarter of 2018, as the carriage standoffs with AT&T’s [/FONT]HBO[FONT="] and [/FONT]Univision[FONT="] accelerated the pain the company has already been feeling from cord-cutting trends.
[/FONT][FONT="]All told, Dish lost a net 1.125 million satellite TV customers in 2018, to stand at 9.905 million at the end of last year. It had 2.417 million Sling TV subscribers, a net gain of 205,000 for the year.
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[/FONT][FONT="]The major factors hurting Dish’s subscriber numbers: Univision programming remains dark on Dish and Sling TV, after it was pulled from on June 30, 2018, as do HBO and Cinemax, which have been unavailable on Dish satellite and Sling TV services since Oct. 31.
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[FONT="]Dish’s stock fell more than 7% in pre-market trading Wednesday on the Q4 subscriber loss.[/FONT]
Dish Network[FONT="] lost a record 381,000 satellite TV subs in the fourth quarter of 2018, as the carriage standoffs with AT&T’s [/FONT]HBO[FONT="] and [/FONT]Univision[FONT="] accelerated the pain the company has already been feeling from cord-cutting trends.
[/FONT][FONT="]All told, Dish lost a net 1.125 million satellite TV customers in 2018, to stand at 9.905 million at the end of last year. It had 2.417 million Sling TV subscribers, a net gain of 205,000 for the year.
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[/FONT][FONT="]The major factors hurting Dish’s subscriber numbers: Univision programming remains dark on Dish and Sling TV, after it was pulled from on June 30, 2018, as do HBO and Cinemax, which have been unavailable on Dish satellite and Sling TV services since Oct. 31.
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[FONT="]Dish’s stock fell more than 7% in pre-market trading Wednesday on the Q4 subscriber loss.[/FONT]