{
  "id": 9300865,
  "title": "Kenyan pay-TV providers losing customers to streaming as decoder costs surge",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/23/kenyan-pay-tv-providers-losing-customers-to-streaming-as-decoder",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-23T07:40:25.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "People Daily Kenya",
    "slug": "people-daily-kenya",
    "url": "https://peopledaily.digital/business/kenyan-pay-tv-providers-losing-customers-to-streaming-as-decoder-costs-surge"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Kenya’s pay-TV sector recorded a quarter-on-quarter decline in subscriptions during the fourth quarter of the 2025/2026 financial year, with the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) directly attributing the drop to customers migrating to IPTV and streaming services, compounded by rising Set-Top Box (STB/decoder) costs driven by global chipset price increases. Total broadcasting subscriptions…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}