Statistics
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US Television Households (September 2007) 1 |
112,275,000 |
Basic Cable Subscribers (December 2007) 1 |
64,800,000 |
Cable Penetration of TV Households (September 2007) 1 |
58.0% |
Total Homes Passed by Cable (December 2007) 1,9 |
123,400,000 |
Cable Headends (March 2008) 2 |
8,126 |
Premium Cable Units (December 2006) 1
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50,600,000 |
Cable Systems (2007) 3 |
6,635 |
Annual Cable Revenue (residential) (2007 estimate) 1 |
$75.2 billion |
Total Advertising Revenue (2007 estimate) 1 |
$26.9 billion |
Annual Franchise Fees Paid by Cable Industry (2007) 4 |
$3.0 billion |
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Cable Industry Construction/Upgrade Expenditures (2007) 1 |
$13.7 billion |
Schools Served by Cable in the Classroom (November 2007) 5 |
81,775 |
Students Served by Cable in the Classroom (November 2007) 5 |
44,184,380 |
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Digital Cable Customers (Mar. 2008) 1 |
38,280,000 |
Total Cable High-Speed Internet Customers (Mar. 2008) 1 (includes commercial customers) |
37,025,000 |
Housing Units Passed by Cable High-Speed Data Service (Dec. 2007) 6,9 |
117,700,000 |
Cable Voice/Phone (Mar. 2008)1 |
16,515,000 |
Homes Passed by Cable HDTV Service (March 2007) 4 |
100,000,000+ |
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National Video Programming Services/Networks (2006) 7 |
565 |
Major Television Awards Won by Cable in 2007 8 |
54 |
Average Monthly Price for Expanded Basic Programming Packages (2007 estimate) 1 |
$42.76 |
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Subscribers to Non-Cable Multichannel Video Program Distributors (September 2007) 4 |
32,000,000 |
1 SNL Kagan
2 A.C. Nielsen Media Research
3 Warren Communications News, Inc.
4 National Cable & Telecommunications Association
5 Cable in the Classroom
6 U.S. Census Bureau, SNL Kagan, and NCTA estimates.
Housing units include occupied, seasonal, and vacant households.
7 Federal Communications Commission, Thirteenth Annual Video Competition Report (Announced Nov. 27, 2007, but not released as of December 7, 2007.)
8 Academy of Television Arts & Sciences; and Grady College of Journalism, University of Georgia
9 Homes Passed measures exclude estimates of overlap coming from overbuilders.