Leichtman Research Group Ends Distribution of Public Reports

Leichtman Research Group, which has published well-regarded quarterly tallies of U.S. pay TV and broadband subscriber counts going back to the halcyon days of DSL in the early 2000s, is no longer offering its data to the public. The company’s First Quarter Research Notes, published back on March 26, will mark its last publicly distributed report. “While LRG continues to track the industry and provide quarterly updates for our clients, I’ve decided to no longer publicly release the topline findings—I thought the year-end results were a good time to make the pivot,” said company founder and principal analyst Bruce Leichtman.  We regularly abstracted LRG’s pay TV and broadband reports, sometimes getting too creative and driving past pro forma guardrails (apologies, Bruce). We'll certainly miss LRG's quarterly data.