{"id":655574,"date":"2013-05-01T13:55:28","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T17:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=478445"},"modified":"2013-05-01T13:55:28","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T17:55:28","slug":"60000-customers-cut-the-cord-on-comcast-cable-in-q1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/655574","title":{"rendered":"60,000 customers cut the cord on Comcast cable in Q1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/01\/comcast-cable-subscriber-losses\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/comcastic.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Comcast Cable Subscriber Losses\" title=\"Comcast Cable Subscriber Losses\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>There are now 60,000 fewer households <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/01\/cable-cord-cutting-analysis-408642\/\">willing to pay Comcast for its cable television<\/a> services than there were a quarter ago. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/05\/02\/business\/media\/comcast-posts-17-rise-in-net-income-despite-a-dip-in-revenue-at-nbcuniversal.html\"><em>The New York Times<\/em> reports<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/comcast\">Comcast<\/a> lost 60,000 cable subscribers over the past quarter, which was &#8220;62 percent worse than the more modest losses it reported in the first quarter of 2012.&#8221; That said, <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/06\/27\/survey-cable-subscriber-retention\/\">losing all those cable subscribers<\/a> hasn&#8217;t hurt Comcast&#8217;s bottom line since the company also reported Q1 2013 earnings of $1.44 billion, an increase of 17.4% from the earnings it reported in Q1 2012. The <em>Times<\/em> says that Comcast&#8217;s improved earnings &#8220;were partly the result of more expensive cable bills for 72% of Comcast\u2019s subscribers.&#8221;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/LPMNREz2C18\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are now 60,000 fewer households willing to pay Comcast for its cable television services than there were a quarter ago. The New York Times reports that Comcast lost 60,000 cable subscribers over the past quarter, which was &#8220;62 percent worse than the more modest losses it reported in the first quarter of 2012.&#8221; That [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}