- U.S. Pay TV-Only Households Down To 14%; MVPD Plus SVOD Households Up to 60%
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, November 9, 2020
Households with paid subscription-based video-on-demand/SVOD services only remain stable at 20%, but pay-TV/MVPD-only households declined by seven percentage points, reports Leichtman Research Group. ...
- 'Un-carrier' T-Mobile Relaunches Its Un-cable TVision Streaming Service
Marketing Daily, P.J. Bednarski, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Relaunched TVision seeks to take on existing vMVPD options with lower-priced package options. ...
- AT&T Must Face Lawsuit Over DirecTV Robocalls
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, September 30, 2020
AT&T's DirecTV must face a class-action complaint alleging the company violated a consumer protection law by making robocalls to a consumer's cell phone, a federal appellate court ruled Wednesday. ...
- Court Urged To Reject White House Stance On Reporter's Press Pass
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, September 10, 2020
Opposing a request by the Trump administration, attorneys for journalist Brian Karem are asking a federal appellate court to leave in place a decision requiring the White House press secreta ...
- Court Vacates FCC Order Banning Charter From Charging Interconnecton Fees
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, August 14, 2020
In a move that took industry watchers by surprise, a divded federal appeals panel Friday vacated a Federal Communications Commission decision to prohibit Charter from charging online video providers fe ...
- Ban On Data Caps Is 'Outdated,' Charter Tells FCC
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Charter says the conditions of its 2016 merger with Time Warner Cable, including a ban on data caps, place the company "at a competitive disadvantage." ...
- Roku Asks FCC To Reject Charter's Request For Permission To Impose Data Caps
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, August 7, 2020
"Data caps prevent consumers from working remotely, learning at a distance, and engaging with friends, family, and online media," Roku says in a new FCC filing. ...
- FCC Should Reject Charter Petition Over Data Caps, Watchdog Says
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 22, 2020
It's "hard to imagine a worse time for Charter to ask for permission to hike prices on consumers and restrict broadband service," the groups write. ...
- Charter Wants FCC To Allow Data Caps, Interconnection Fees
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, June 22, 2020
When the FCC approved Charter's merger with Time Warner and Bright House Networks, the agency required the company to refrain from imposing usage-based billing or interconnection fees until 2023. ...
- Fox News Presses Judge To Throw Out Claims Over COVID-19 Commentary
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, May 18, 2020
Fox News is slamming a Washington state nonprofit's "dangerous" and "frivolous" argument that it's entitled to proceed with a lawsuit accusing Fox of spreading false information about COVID-19. ...
- Bill Would Prohibit Internet Disconnections During COVID-19 Pandemic
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Internet and phone providers would be prohibited from terminating service to consumers until at least 6 months after the end of the pandemic, under legislation proposed by Sens. Jeff Merkle ...
- MSG Networks Sports Taps Social, Content To Offset Declines Amidst NBA, NHL Pause
Digital News Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, May 4, 2020
To offset declines, MSG Networks has supplemented game content with insights and interviews from key players and participants. The focus has turned to content that enables viewers to stay connect ...
- Fox News Sued Over COVID-19 Commentary
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, April 6, 2020
Fox's "malicious misrepresentation and false information deprived the public of information necessary to prevent and mitigate transmission of the virus," the Washington League for Increased Transparency and Ethics writes ...
- Maryland Governor Urged To Veto Digital Ad Tax
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, April 2, 2020
"The proposed tax on digital advertising represents one of the most serious threats to commercial advertising in several decades," the ANA, IAB and dozens of other groups say in ...
- Trump Must Face Claims He Retaliated Against Journalists
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, March 24, 2020
President Trump must face claims that he violated the First Amendment by revoking or threatening to revoke some journalists' press credentials and national security clearances, a federal judge ruled Tues ...
- Google Closes Fiber Retail Stores
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Google is shuttering Fiber retail stores and ceasing "outbound sales processes," but will install service for new customers, the company said. ...
- Court Upholds Import Ban On Some Comcast Set-Top Boxes
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, March 2, 2020
In a defeat for Comcast, a federal appellate court Monday upheld a ban on some of the company's set-top boxes on the grounds that they infringe patents held by T ...
- Altice Loses 107,000 Video Subs In 2019, Buys NJ Cable Operation
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, February 14, 2020
CEO says the video subscriber loss rate of 3.3% is in line with or better than the overall video industry's rate. The NJ operation acquisition is part of Altice's ongoi ...
- Watchdog Tells T-Mobile To Revise TVision Ads
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 4, 2020
T-Mobile should revise an ad that implies the new streaming service TVision Home is wireless, an industry watchdog recommended in an opinion released Tuesday. ...
- FCC Urged To Collect Broadband Pricing Information
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, January 22, 2020
"Even if broadband is deployed to every community in America, millions of people would still not be able to afford to subscribe, and what is the point of deployment ...
- FCC Urged To Collect Better Information About Broadband Deployment, Price
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, December 26, 2019
The Commission must make more robust changes to accurately understand the state of broadband access and adoption across the country," Access Now, New America's Open Technology Institute, Public Knowledge a ...
- New Law Bans Hidden Pay-TV Fees, Makes Retrans Rule Change Fought By AT&T
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Sunday, December 22, 2019
Pay-TV operators will soon have to inform consumers of the total price -- including itemized charges, fees and estimated taxes -- before they sign up for video packages. The n ...
- Sanders Wants To Restore Net Neutrality Rules, Ban Data Caps
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, December 6, 2019
"High-speed internet service must be treated as the new electricity -- a public utility that everyone deserves as a basic human right," the Vermont senator's ambitious proposal states. ...
- Comcast To Hike Fees Again, Starting Mid-December
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, November 26, 2019
Most internet fees will rise by $3 per month -- but the Broadcast TV fee will jump $5, or nearly 50%, to $14.95 per month, bringing that fee's cumulative hik ...
- Cable Industry Urges Court To Block Drug Price Disclosure Mandate
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, November 19, 2019
"The Rule effectively prevents cable networks and systems from carrying advertisements that do not include [drug prices]," the cable lobby argues. ...
- HGTV, Food Network Promote Strategy Executive Julie Taylor
Television News Daily, Fern Siegel - Wednesday, September 18, 2019
A nine-year company vet, Taylor is charged with managing content and program line-up, as well as scheduling for more than 1,450 hours of the cablers' shows. ...
- Maybe Cable TV Won't Go Away After All?
Media Insider, Cory Treffiletti - Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Signs are there that cable companies are going to move toward a la carte offerings where you can package the stations you want and customize your offering. ...
- Continued Consolidation Of TV Industry Means More Focus On Ad Tech
Media Insider, Dave Morgan - Thursday, August 15, 2019
The ViacomCBS reunion is likely to follow a game plan well known to industry followers, and not unlike what happened when Comcast bought and integrated NBCUniversal almost 10 years ...
- New ViacomCBS Sees Growth In D2C, Content Production And Advanced Advertising
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, August 13, 2019
The new ViacomCBS now claims the largest TV audience of any TV-media company, as well as $8 billion in national TV advertising revenue. ...
- Organic Valley Puts Fitbits On Cows
The MediaPost Cases, Nina Lentini - Tuesday, July 16, 2019
Organic Valley was finally hitting a point of breakthrough in awareness. It was time to "get the brand out there, to establish the brand." ...
