SKY Perfect JSAT releases end-2024 pay TV subscriber numbers

Tuesday, January 7th, 2025 
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Number of Subscribers as of the End of December 2024

SKY Perfect JSAT Holdings Inc. (Head Office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director, President: Eiichi Yonekura) announces the number of subscribers to the SKY PerfecTV! multichannel pay TV broadcast service and optical fiber based re-transmission service as of the end of December 2024. These services are operated by SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation (Head Office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director, President & Chief Executive Officer; Eiichi Yonekura), which is a fully-owned subsidiary of SKY Perfect JSAT Holdings Inc.

Number of Subscribers                                New          Monthly Churn       Net  Cumulative
(Number of IC cards or IC chips[1])          Subscribers  Churns        Rate[3]  Increase       Total
-------------------------------------------  -----------  ------  -------------  --------  ----------
Total for SKY PerfecTV!                           35,478  55,353           2.1%   -19,875   2,577,501
 SKY PerfecTV![4]                                 34,119  49,281           2.5%   -15,162   1,921,909
 Premium Service[5]                                1,359   6,072           0.9%    -4,713     655,592

                                                     New          Monthly Churn       Net  Cumulative
Number of Contractors[2]                     Subscribers  Churns        Rate[3]  Increase       Total
-------------------------------------------  -----------  ------  -------------  --------  ----------
Total for SKY PerfecTV!                           28,399  47,661           2.4%   -19,262   1,982,410

                                                     New          Monthly Churn       Net  Cumulative
Number of Subscribing Households             Subscribers  Churns        Rate[3]  Increase       Total
-------------------------------------------  -----------  ------  -------------  --------  ----------
Optical Fiber Based Re-transmission Service       18,837  11,229           0.4%     7,608   2,828,593

1. The number of IC cards or IC chips with pay-subscription agreements concluded.
2. The number of subscribers with one or more subscription agreement. Multiple pay-subscription agreements by the same contractor are counted as one.
3. Monthly churn rate (i.e., Churns during the current month/Total subscribers at the end of the previous month).
4. 110 degrees east longitude satellite broadcasts. The number of subscribers includes those via the optical fiber based re-transmission service.
5. 124/128 degrees east longitude satellite broadcasts. The number of subscribers includes those via the optical fiber since April 2024.

Links: SKY Perfect JSAT