Investor’s Business Daily: For the first time ever, the U.S. pay-television industry lost customers in the traditionally strong first-quarter, highlighting the difficulties subscription-based TV providers face amid an Internet onslaught from Netflix, Dish Network’s Sling TV, Hulu and others. Pay-TV lost a net 31,000 customers in Q1 and has an annual contraction rate of 0.5%, according to Craig Moffett, an analyst at MoffettNathanson. This comes after 1.4 million U.S. households either cancelled their pay-TV service or didn’t sign up for it at all during 2014, Moffett noted.