AT&T adds 342,000 DirecTV Now subscribers, raises total to 1.8M

AT&T ended its second quarter by adding another 342,000 subscribers to its DirecTV Now platform, bringing the total for the service to 1.8 million.In all, AT&T recorded 80,000 total video net adds during the quarter and claimed its total video customer base “stable” with DirecTV Now. But the numbers suggest that AT&T’s traditional video platforms (DirecTV and Uverse) lost more than 250,000 subscribers.In a somewhat truncated press release put out for AT&T’s first quarterly earnings report since successfully acquiring Time Warner for $85 billion, the company offered only small details about the performance of the assets it had just bought.HBO and Turner both recorded year-over-year subscription revenue growth, and Turner ad revenues were up 3%.