{"id":84402,"date":"2011-08-10T19:08:02","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T11:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/dish-network-reports-60000-subscriber-loss-in-second-quarter\/"},"modified":"2011-08-10T19:08:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T11:08:02","slug":"dish-network-reports-60000-subscriber-loss-in-second-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/dish-network-reports-60000-subscriber-loss-in-second-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Dish Network Reports 60,000-Subscriber Loss in Second Quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[08-10-11] U.S. satellite-television provider <b>Dish Network<\/b> reported a loss of 135,000 subscribers in its 2011 second quarter, according to the company\u2019s latest results, issued Aug. 9.<br \/>\nAnalysts estimated Dish Network would lose 60,000 subscribers, after the operator gained 58,000 customers in the 2011 first quarter. Dish Network\u2019s net income, however, rose to $335 million from $257 million in the same period last year. The operator\u2019s sales rose 13 percent to $3.59 billion, which outperformed analysts\u2019 consensus of $3.39 billion.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <b>RBC Capital Markets<\/b> Analyst Ryan Vineyard said that the sluggish economy may be impacting Dish Network more than its competitors, as the operator targets lower-income subscribers with cheaper packages than its rival <b>DirecTV<\/b>.<br \/>\n\u201cEvery cable operator that\u2019s reported has missed subscriber expectations, and DirecTV, same thing. Some of it was economic and some of it was competitive intensity,\u201d Vineyard said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[08-10-11] U.S. satellite-television provider Dish Network reported a loss of 135,000 subscribers in its 2011 second quarter, according to the company\u2019s latest results, issued Aug. 9. Analysts estimated Dish Network would lose 60,000 subscribers, after the operator gained 58,000 customers in the 2011 first quarter. Dish Network\u2019s net income, however, rose to $335 million from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}