GCI, Alaska's largest cable operator, will shut down its pay-TV services by mid-2025, including its app-based Yukon TV streaming platform. GCI said it will shift more resources toward broadband and mobile.
Following in the footsteps of some smaller US cable operators, GCI, Alaska's biggest cable operator, is preparing to end its pay-TV service.
GCI confirmed that it has informed its video customers that it will shut down its TV offerings by mid-2025 and allocate more of its resources toward broadband and mobile. GCI explained on its website that it filed an application to discontinue its cable TV/video service with the Regulatory Commission of Alaska on November 8.
The coming shutdown spans both Choice TV, GCI's legacy pay-TV service that uses older QAM-based devices such as TiVo boxes and is limited to a handful of rural markets, and Yukon TV. Yukon TV is a newer, app-based, streaming pay-TV offering that runs on a range of devices, including Apple TV boxes, certain Amazon Fire TV devices and several Android TV-powered devices, including the Evo Pro from Colorado-based Evolution Digital. Read more here.