As video cord-cutting has withered the customer ranks of the top pay TV operators to mere shadows of what they once were, Charter Communications has, to a degree, been spared the worst impact.
Last year, for example, as Comcast bled out 2.036 million linear video customers, and DirecTV lost an estimated 1.8 million customers, according to one third-party estimate, Charter lost only 1.025 million video subs — and, in the process, surpassed Comcast as the largest pay TV operator in the U.S.
