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The company added 5.3 million streaming subscribers during the first quarter, which featured the third season of HBO’s exotic resort murder series, “The White Lotus,” and the Max hospital drama, “The Pitt.”

Previously Disney had predicted a slight decline in subscribers due to a price increase.

In total, the two services now have 180.7 million subscribers, with an increase of 2.5 million subscribers from the fiscal first quarter.

Administration officials are expected to meet with studio executives and the MPA to seek clarity about whether tariffs will be based on a film’s budget, its revenue, theater ticket prices or streaming service subscriber fees.

But in the last five years or so, the rise of streaming has essentially done the opposite — poaching cable subscribers, edging out episodic programming with bingeable on-demand series and cutting writing jobs in the process.