Industry Statistics

Industry Statistics

US Television Households (September 2007)1

112,275,000

Basic Cable Subscribers (September 2007)1

65,100,000

Cable Penetration of TV Households (September 2007)1

58.0%

Total Homes Passed by Cable (December 2007)1,5

123,400,000

Cable Headends (December 2007)2

8,177

Premium Cable Units (December 2007)1

53,100,000

Cable Systems (2006)3

7,090

Annual Cable Revenue (residential) (2007 estimate)1

$75.2 billion

Total Advertising Revenue (2007 estimate)1

$25.7 billion

Annual Franchise Fees Paid by Cable Industry (2007)4

$3.0 billion


1
SNL Kagan
2 A.C. Nielsen Media Research
3 Warren Communications News, Inc.
4 National Cable & Telecommunications Association
5 Homes Passed measures exclude extimates of overlap coming from overbuilders