News Release
May 8, 2026
SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation
Number of Subscribers as of the End of April 2026
SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation (Head Office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director, President & Chief Executive Officer: 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 April 2026.
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! | 58,433 | 53,541 | 2.2% | 4,892 | 2,459,240 |
SKY PerfecTV!*4 | 55,674 | 47,670 | 2.6% | 8,004 | 1,873,474 |
Premium Service | 2,759 | 5,871 | 1.0% | -3,112 | 585,766 |
Number of Contractors*2 | New Subscribers | Churns | Monthly Churn Rate*3 | Net Increase | Cumulative Total |
Total for SKY PerfecTV! | 49,835 | 45,150 | 2.4% | 4,685 | 1,885,019 |
Number of Subscribing Households | New Subscribers | Churns | Monthly Churn Rate*3 | Net Increase | Cumulative Total |
Optical Fiber Based Re-transmission Service | 22,809 | 14,721 | 0.5% | 8,088 | 2,978,086 |
*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 retransmission service.