DirecTV's Net Income Rises 10% and adds customers

[jansan]

Another great quarter for D*, satcaster grew to 17 million subscribers. The churn rate fell to 1.36% compared to 1.44%.

Here is the article.

DirecTV 1Q profit up 10 percent, will buy back $3B shares: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance

 

[tigerfan33]

For all of those people out there say " most subs are not hd subs".

Could be truth in that but tv providers DO know where the money is.

 

[ddobson]

IMO they have a huge window of opportunity to continue this trend against other providers now. If they can get the rest of the HD nationals online fairly quickly they will just keep drawing more from the other providers..

 

[jcrandall]

Earnings Call / Webcast is today at 2pm. We'll try to cover it

investor.directv.com

if you want to tune in.

 

[dcowboy7]

do we know what % of the 17 million are HD people ?

 

[jcrandall]

do we know what % of the 17 million are HD people ?

They've never given a percentage of HD. They have said that 40%+ of customers have "advanced products" meaning HD <or> DVR or both.

On the last call they said they expected that to grow to 50% in 2008.

 

[bigthrust]

This is because Dish network keeps screwing around and making bad decisions by thinking that they know what the consumers want. Congrats DirecTV for doing the right thing.

 

[jacmyoung]

This is because Dish network keeps screwing around and making bad decisions by thinking that they know what the consumers want. Congrats DirecTV for doing the right thing.

DISH should have a better Q too, estimates are around 125,000 net new subs.

 

[Stacy A]

This is because Dish network keeps screwing around and making bad decisions by thinking that they know what the consumers want. Congrats DirecTV for doing the right thing.

And Dish has continued their competitive edge [said with complete sarcasm] by not adding the "rumored" new national HD today. DirectTV knows what they are doing and apparently Dish does not. Way to go Dish. :up

 

[Claude Greiner]

Dish is about to blow Directv out of the water anyways, so I wouldn't expect their profits to be up very much longer!

 

[charper1]

WAH, WAH! (my comment was about as mature). Why? What did either add to the usefulness of the thread?

 

[Hemi 6.1]

For all of those people out there say " most subs are not hd subs".

They aren't . And It doesn't say that anywhere in this article.

 

[tigerfan33]

They aren't . And It doesn't say that anywhere in this article.

You must have missed the second line in my post.

 

[charper1]

On a per sub basis the avg HD user might pay more per month BUT on a pure numbers basis (the bottom line) non-HD subs still add up to more total revenue.

 

[goaliebob99]

Dish is about to blow Directv out of the water anyways, so I wouldn't expect their profits to be up very much longer!

Claude, I wouldnt count your chickens before they hatch..

 

[Hemi 6.1]

On a per sub basis the avg HD user might pay more per month BUT on a pure numbers basis (the bottom line) non-HD subs still add up to more total revenue.

Exactly, It even states that the average customers dollars spent went up with D* is due to rising costs.

 

[DodgerKing]

Dish is about to blow Directv out of the water anyways, so I wouldn't expect their profits to be up very much longer!

Care to elaborate???

 

[Hemi 6.1]

Claude, I wouldnt count your chickens before they hatch..

+1

 

[tigerfan33]

It is no accident that Direct had two outstanding Q in a row due to two letters. "HD"

 

[Hemi 6.1]

When has D* ever had a bad Quarter?