Dish Network passes 10 million customers

[james99]

http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir...item_id=580992

[joetoronto]

hey james, how do the major providers stack up?

in other words, i assume directv is in first place, how many subs do they have and what about the others?

[james99]

I beleive Directv is in the 13 million range. Murdoch wants 20 million subs. Now that the black market gone he might reach that number.

A few cable companies are still bigger.

[joetoronto]

cool, what about voom and bell?

[james99]

VOOM has about 20,000 customers and BEV has 1.3 million

[joetoronto]

thanks james, so it's.......

1. directv: 12,600,000
2. dishnetwork: 10,000,000
3. expressvu: 1,300,000
4. starchoice: 800,000
5. voom: 20,000

i'd say voom's got a long way to go. lol

[james99]

Directv has 12.6 million customers (20m is the target). Dish Network has 10 million and VOOM is in the 5 digit range. That number should grow because of the free hardware promotion. Will it ever hit 6 digits? Who knows for sure. BEV is 1.3 million and Starchoice is about 800,000.

Here's the top 25 cable companies:

Rank MSO Subscribers
1 Comcast Cable Communications 21,468,000
2 Time Warner Cable 10,919,000
3 Charter Communications 6,431,300
4 Cox Communications 6,338,300
5 Adelphia Communications (1) 5,469,800
6 Cablevision Systems Corporation 2,944,000
7 Bright House Networks 2,167,000
8 Mediacom Communications Corporations 1,543,000
9 Insight Communications (1) 1,293,600
10 CableOne 720,800
11 RCN Corporation (2) 436,700
12 Cebridge Connection (e) 351,700
13 Bresnan Communications 311,200
14 Service Electric 289,900
15 WideOpenWest (e) 288,000
16 Tele-Media Corporation (3) 227,900
17 Armstrong 217,100
18 Susquehanna Cable 207,300
19 Midcontinent Communications 198,800
20 Knology Holdings 183,800
21 Northland Communications Corporation (e) 176,300
22 Pencor Services (e) 172,800
23 Millennium Digital Media (e) 153,900
24 Buckeye Cable System 149,200
25 General Communications 137,200
25 US Cable Corporation 137,100

[al7220]

So, what are the targets for Dish and BEV?

Where does Shaw and Rogers Cable fit it?

-A-

[alpineguy]

Do you think that Dish has sky rocketed due to the fact that that DTV is out of the black market ... and you can still hack Dish ... hmmmm ... just my thought