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Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

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YouTube TV: A New Way to Watch TV

Moffat Nathanson was tracking pay TV throughout the United States. Comcast dropped 614,000 video customers in Q1 and of the TV services that were tracked by Moffat Nathanson,. YouTube TV was the only one that was actually gaining subscribers in Q1 of this year. Apple companies continue to take it on the chin. And so the reality is if this is a hard landing, that it feels like we're on course for four or five years where everyone crashes and burns.

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