The 13 largest U.S. pay-TV providers lost about...

The 13 largest U.S. pay-TV providers lost about 300,000 net video subscribers in Q2. That’s down from 350,000 subscribers lost during the year-ago period, Leichtman Research Group (LRG) said Thursday in a news release (http://bit.ly/1puVo2F). The top providers have nearly 95.5 million subscribers, with the top nine cable companies having 49.9 million video subscribers, satellite TV companies with 34.3 million subscribers and the top phone companies more than 11 million subscribers, it said. Cable One, Comcast and Time Warner Cable are among the top nine cable companies that collectively lost about 510,000 subscribers in Q2, it said. DirecTV and Dish Network lost 78,000 subscribers in Q2, compared with 162,000 in the same period last year, LRG said. AT&T and Verizon added 290,000 subscribers, compared with 373,000 net additions in Q2 2013.