WASHINGTON — Fleet operator SES is adding cloud services to its data and broadcast businesses while acknowledging that broadcast revenue has been shrinking faster than data revenue is growing. SES reported 1.434 billion euros ($1.591 billion) in revenue for the first nine months of 2019, down 3.6% compared to the same time last year. TV video broadcasting, which represented 62% of the company’s total revenue, shrank by 8.1% to 904.5 million euros. Ferdinand Kayser, head of SES’s video division, said lower revenue from U.S. broadcasters who are dropping standard-definition channels, combined with changing viewing habits among consumers, weighed down SES’s financial performance. The company has already borne the brunt of those losses, he said during an Oct. 25 earnings call. “We believe that this trend is not indicative of the expected long-term revenue trajectory,” Kayser said. Kayser said the total number of channels SES broadcasts has grown by 3%, with capacity-intensive HD an
