Comcast has been steadily losing cable TV subscribers for years, but it turned things around in the most recent quarter by adding 89,000 video customers.

The 89,000 net additions in Q4 2015 was Comcast's best result on the video subscriber front in eight years, according to today's earnings release. Comcast did lose 36,000 video customers over the entire year, but even that was "the best result in nine years," Comcast said.

The broadband business continued to boom, meanwhile, with net additions of 460,000 in the quarter and 1.4 million for the year. Overall, Comcast now has 22.3 million video customers, 23.3 million Internet customers, and 11.5 million phone customers. The phone business added 139,000 subscribers in the quarter and 282,000 during the full year. Many of the additions came from existing customers adding a service. Comcast's total customer base increased by 281,000 in the quarter and 666,000 in 2015 for a new total of 27.7 million.

Comcast ended the year 2007 with 24.8 million video subscribers and 13.6 million Internet subscribers. The split between TV and broadband customers has undergone a major shift since then as high-speed Internet has become more essential and online video services have proven good enough for some customers to ditch cable TV. Comcast's data caps are low enough that replacing cable TV with Netflix or other services might be difficult, though, and there is still lots of programming, including live sports, that is exclusive to pay-TV.

Comcast Internet revenue grew 10.2 percent in 2015 and was $12.5 billion for the full year.

While Internet access has become Comcast's most popular service, cable TV remains a bigger moneymaker, and the revenue is growing as the nation's largest cable company continues to get more revenue from each subscriber. Comcast's full-year video revenue rose from $20.8 billion in 2014 to $21.5 billion in 2015, an increase of 3.6 percent, even though Comcast lost 36,000 video subscribers on the year.

The amount Comcast pays for video programming is rising even faster, though, with a 7.1 percent increase in 2015. Comcast has consistently blamed programming costs for bill increases passed along to TV customers. Comcast also benefits from programming fees, though, because it owns NBCUniversal, various regional sports networks, and other programming.

Total company revenue, including NBCUniversal and all other businesses, increased 8.3 percent in 2015 to reach a full-year total of $74.5 billion. Operating income grew 7.3 percent for a full-year total of $16.0 billion.

Comcast remains #1 in the US in total broadband connections, but it recently lost its place as the top pay-TV provider when AT&T purchased DirecTV. AT&T was able to increase the number of DirecTV subscribers from 19.6 million to 19.8 million in the most recent quarter, but losses in U-verse TV were bigger than the DirecTV gains. Overall, AT&T now has 25.4 million video subscribers after losing 26,000 in the quarter.

AT&T's total wireline Internet connections dropped by 36,000 to 14.3 million, as losses in DSL exceeded gains in AT&T's faster Internet offerings.

Time Warner Cable, the third-largest pay-TV provider, also grew its video subscriber base in Q4 2015. After adding 54,000 video customers, TWC now has 10.8 million. TWC added 281,000 Internet subscribers to boost that total to 12.7 million.