Leading pay TV providers in the U.S. 2025, by number of subscribers

Published by

May 20, 2025

The pay TV provider with the largest number of subscribers at the end of the first quarter of 2025 was Charter, amassing around

****

million customers. However, a potential merger of Charter and Cox would become the largest cable TV provider in the U.S., with an estimated

****

million subscribers. Second was Comcast with

****

million, followed by DirecTV with

million and the online TV service YouTube TV with

***

million. With pay TV providers losing market shares to video streaming services, the number of subscribers has slipped significantly in recent years, with no provider having beyond

million customers.

Pay TV providers ranked by the number of subscribers in the United States as of 1st quarter 2025 (in millions)

Characteristic	Number of subscribers in millions
-	-
-	-
-	-
-	-
-	-
-	-
-	-
-	-
-	-
-	-
-	-
-	-

Download

Source

Show detailed source information?

Already a member?

Source

Use Ask Statista Research Service

Release date

May 2025

More information

Region

United States

Survey time period

Q1 2025

Special properties

estimates based on companies' financial data

Supplementary notes

*Estimate.

Citation formats

Other statistics on the topic
Pay TV in the United States

Number of Dish traditional pay TV subscribers in the United States from 1st quarter 2014 to 4th quarter 2024 (in millions)

Dish TV: pay TV subscribers in the U.S. 2014-2024

Number of pay TV subscribers in Canada in January 2023 and January 2024, by platform type (in 1,000s)

Number of pay TV subscribers in Canada 2023-2024, by platform

Number of pay TV subscribers in Europe from 2014 to 2029 (in millions)

Number of pay TV subscribers in Europe 2014-2029

Number of pay TV subscribers in Portugal from 1st quarter 2020 to 4th quarter 2024 (in 1,000s)

Number of pay TV subscribers in Portugal quarterly 2020-2024

Access all statistics starting from $2,388 USD yearly ^*

* For commercial use only

For single users

$0 USD

Always free

Access limited to Free Statistics. Premium Statistics are not included.

Free Statistics

Based on your interests

For single users

$199 USD

per month, billed annually ¹

Buy now

Free Statistics
Premium Statistics

The statistic on this page is a Premium Statistic and is included in this account.

For teams of up to 5 people

$1,299 USD

per month, billed annually ¹

Buy now

Free + Premium Statistics
Reports
Market Insights

1 All prices do not include sales tax. The account requires an annual contract and will renew after one year to the regular list price.

Compare accounts

Leading companies trust Statista:

Related reports: Available to download in PDF or PPTX format

All data
in one format

Cable TV in the United States

31 page/s
English
pptx
Detailed references

Everything on "Cable TV in the United States" in one document: edited and divided into chapters, including detailed references.

Go to report

Further reports

Statista has been my savior on several occasions. The site is easy to maneuver and the data is in a format that can go right into a report or presentation.

Marlene Greenfield
Vice President, Hearst Magazines