How to Use pay-TV in a Sentence

pay-TV

noun

• By the end of 2025 there will be less of a need for consumers to have a pay-TV subscription.
  — Brad Adgate, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
• As the pay-TV universe keeps shrinking, though, so does the once-prolix scale of the upfronts and their teen-age cousin, the NewFronts.
  — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 30 Apr. 2025
• EchoStar’s total pay-TV subscriber base, as of the end of the first quarter, stood at 8.178 million.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 May 2024
• The company made a sharp strategic turn amid the upheaval in the pay-TV sector that year.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 19 Sep. 2024
• The bottom line: This deal will be welcomed by the pay-TV industry.
  — Tim Baysinger, Axios, 30 Sep. 2024
• Both have lost nearly half of their subscriber base since 2013, which is considered the high point of the pay-TV era.
  — Tim Baysinger, Axios, 21 Nov. 2024
• Both have lost nearly half of their subscriber base since 2013, which is considered the high point of the pay-TV era.
  — Tim Baysinger, Axios, 17 Sep. 2024
• Strong talked up Sky’s place in the sports world, saying that the pay-TV giant has increased its volume by 50%.
  — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 3 June 2025
• Millions of pay-TV subscribers are cutting the cord every year.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 4 Mar. 2024
• Less than half of U.S. homes subscribe to traditional pay-TV services and the share has been falling rapidly over the past decade.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2024
• The big picture: Venu was seen as a way for the three companies to reach the increasing number of sports fans who do not subscribe to a pay-TV service.
  — Tim Baysinger, Axios, 16 Aug. 2024
• College football isn’t alone in having to deal with the downstream effects of the withering pay-TV universe.
  — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 22 Jan. 2025
• Right now, media executives expect the pay-TV bundle to hit a floor of subscribers, though no one is quite sure of how low that floor will go.
  — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 19 June 2025
• But that growth coincided with the money-printing machine that is the pay-TV business.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 July 2023
• Paying roughly $3 billion each, Jio took the streaming rights, while Disney secured only the pay-TV rights.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 4 Jan. 2024
• If Disney is behind it, this practice of genre-specific bundles seems to be where the pay-TV business is headed.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2024
• How about Charter pay-TV subscriber losses during the blackout?
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Sep. 2023
• That would have created the largest U.S. provider in the declining pay-TV industry with around 18 million customers.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 22 Nov. 2024
• The high fees that regional sports networks have traditionally reaped from pay-TV distributors have helped prop up the teams and leagues that get paid for the rights to air the games.
  — Lillian Rizzo, CNBC, 14 Feb. 2025
• But customers have been canceling their pay-TV packages at alarming rates.
  — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2023
• Television and streaming don’t look a whole lot more promising, as the linear pay-TV industry faces long-term declines.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• Live events and digital media have emerged as the primary modes of engagement outside the pay-TV bundle.
  — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 28 July 2025
• All of this investment is ramping up as the TV ratings continue to grow—this despite the ongoing erosion of the nation’s pay-TV base.
  — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 14 Mar. 2025
• This may be due in part to the robust demand for live sports content, even as traditional pay-TV subscriptions decline.
  — Lydia Mee, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
• The Boomerang website and app officially shutters on Sept. 30, while the channel will continue to be available via partner pay-TV providers.
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 9 Aug. 2024
• Meanwhile, Comcast’s core cable and telecom business once again lost pay-TV and broadband subscribers in the second quarter.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 July 2024
• The joint venture could accelerate the shift away from the traditional and more lucrative pay-TV model.
  — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2024
• Ten years later, while Comcast remains one of the nation’s largest pay-TV distributors (along with Charter), the number of subscribers has dropped to 12.8 million.
  — Brad Adgate, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
• The challenge will be figuring out where those audiences of influence are in a world where pay-TV is a shadow of its former self, and who, exactly, is footing the bill.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Feb. 2025
• While the pay-TV bundle still rakes in the highest share of profits for legacy media companies – much of which stems from the fees that pay-TV distributors hand over to the networks to be included in the bundle – that figure is in decline.
  — Sarah Whitten,lillian Rizzo,alex Sherman, CNBC, 26 July 2025