The cancellation rate for subscriptions to Disney+ and Hulu in the U.S. doubled after ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s late night TV show under pressure from the Trump regime, according to new figures released by the research firm Antenna. An estimated 3 million people cancelled Disney+ and 4.1 million cancelled Hulu in September.
Last month, the cancellation rate for Disney+ was 8%, according to Antenna, up from an average of 4% in the two months prior. The cancellation rate for Hulu was 10%, up from 5% for July and August.
Despite the huge uptick in cancellations, there was a modest increase in new sign-ups on both Disney+ and Hulu. Disney+ saw about 2.2 million new subscriptions in September, up from roughly 2 million new subscriptions in August and 1.6 million in July. Hulu saw 2.1 milli