India, Jan. 22 -- If Rogers Communications has been counting on its adoption of Comcast's X1 video platform to spur renewed pay-TV subscriber growth, it may need to change those expectations.
Despite completing its nationwide rollout of Ignite TV, a syndicated version of Comcast's cloud-based X1 platform, throughout its nearly 4.5-million-home footprint, Rogers reported Wednesday that it shed 17,000 video customers in the fourth quarter of 2019. That's a touch more than the 16,000 video subs it lost in the same quarter a year earlier, lowering its total pay-TV customer base to about 1.58 million.
Largely as a result of these continuing video sub losses, which amounted to 106,000 for the full year, Rogers' pay-TV revenues slid 2% in Q4 on ...