Parks also found a coincident decrease in pay-TV subscriptions and an increase in Internet-only video subscriptions in antenna-only households.
“Pay-TV subscriptions have dropped each year since 2014, falling to 81% of U.S. broadband households in Q3 2016,” said Brett Sappington, Senior Director of Research, Parks Associates, in a press release.
From the article "Parks: Antenna-Only TV Households Are 15% of Broadband Households" by Andrew Burger.
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