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Number of Subscribers as of the End of December 2019

Jan 7, 2020

  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 2019. 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
(Number of IC cards or IC chips*1)

New Subscribers

Churns

Monthly Churn Rate*3

Net Increase

Cumulative Total

Total for SKY PerfecTV!

47,923

54,584

1.7%

-6,661

3,172,150

SKY PerfecTV!*4

45,563

43,837

2.1%

1,726

2,137,075

Premium Service*5

1,928

10,083

1.0%

-8,155

953,619

Premium Service HIKARI*6

432

664

0.8%

-232

81,456

 

Number of Contractors*2

New Subscribers

Churns

Monthly Churn Rate*3

Net Increase

Cumulative Total

Total for SKY PerfecTV!

31,714

45,242

1.7%

-13,528

2,641,648

 

 

Number of Subscribing Households

New Subscribers

Churns

Monthly Churn Rate*3

Net Increase

Cumulative Total

Optical Fiber Based
Re-transmission Service

16,444

6,734

0.3%

9,710

2,302,425

 

*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. It includes the number of subscribers for the optical fiber based re-transmission service.
*5 124 and 128 degrees east longitude satellite broadcasts.
*6 The service that provides broadcasts via optical lines.