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Ankler: Q3 pay-TV subscriber losses are ‘less worse,’ barely

The Ankler’s Sean McNulty reports that Charter and Comcast’s third-quarter traditional TV bundle subscriber losses came in “less worse” than before, as the cord-cutting decline that erodes Skydance, Versant and Fox Corp’s revenue core continues.

Why it matters. Pay-TV distributors and programmers keep losing a shrinking but still lucrative revenue base, even as the pace of decline slows.

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