US cable subscribers numbered 69 million as of June 2001, up about 1.9% from the 67.7 million customers reported in June 2000, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said in its annual report on US multichannel competition, released this week.
Combined cable and non-cable multichannel video programme distributor (MVPDs) subs increased to 88.3 million households as of June 2001, up 4.6 percent over the 84.4 million households subscribing to MPVDs in June 2000.
Digital broadcast satellite (DBS) subscribers climbed from 13 million to more than 16 million – a growth rate nearly two and a half times that of cable. DBS subscribers now represent 18.2% of all MVPD subscribers.
