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The pace of cord cutting picked up in the first quarter as the relevance of traditional video continued to fade.<\/p>\n

More than 2.3 million people in the U.S. abandoned their pay-TV subscriptions during the quarter, according to estimates from SVB MoffettNathanson analyst Craig Moffett. These losses marked a \u201csignificant acceleration\u201d compared with a decline of 2.0 million subscribers in the year-earlier first quarter, constituting a 6.9% drop\u2014\u201dthe fastest pace ever recorded,\u201d by Moffett\u2019s math.<\/p>\n

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As consumers continue to cut the cord, the portion of occupied U.S. households paying for video packages has been on the decline. Penetration peaked upwards of 80% about 15 years ago, according to Moffett\u2019s estimates, but it now stands at 58.5% of households, even when including virtual multichannel video programming distributors (vMVPDs), or services like Dish Network Corp.\u2019s
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The current penetration is similar to levels last seen in 1992, \u201ctwo years before the debut of DirecTV brought \u2018cable TV\u2019 to rural America for the first time,\u201d Moffett wrote in a note to clients. <\/p>\n

When just looking at traditional pay TV, the penetration rate falls to 45%, the lowest level in 37 years, according to Moffett.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no surprise that consumers continue to ditch their linear video packages as the quality of traditional TV content has worsened. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe entertainment networks have been stripped bare, with their best programming having long-since moved to SVOD,\u201d or \u201cstreaming video on demand,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThe regional sports networks have gone bankrupt, folded their
tents, and left town. Even the news networks, with fewer and fewer subscribers left to pay the bills, have cut their budgets.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moffett sees the industry now amid an \u201cimpoverishment cycle,\u201d which has \u201cstripped traditional video of viewership, driving media companies to move their best content elsewhere\u2026 and therefore driving viewership lower still.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even vMVPDs, the online services like Hulu Live, Sling TV and YouTube TV, are struggling for momentum on the whole, with losses of 250,000 households in aggregate in the first quarter, a decline that Moffett said is one of the worst on record. <\/p>\n

\u201cAs we\u2019ve seen for the past four years, subscribership now drops sharply in Q1 after the football season ends,\u201d he wrote. <\/p>\n

Some services seem to be faring better than others, however, as he estimates YouTube TV picked up 300,000 in the first quarter, while Hulu \u201chas barely grown over the past three years.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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