- Dish Gets An AT&T Lifeline - But Not The Obvious One
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, July 22, 2021
AT&T has supplied Dish with infrastructure technology to aid its efforts to be a "mobile virtual network operator." ...
- Vizio-Led OAR Addressable TV Effort Certifies 7 Ad-Tech Partners
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, July 1, 2021
Vizio said it exceeded 11.2 million U.S. addressable TVs launching live addressable TV ad campaigns with top TV networks. ...
- Discovery Inc. Starts Discovery Sports -- Does It Signal More To Come?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, June 30, 2021
It's got March Madness and the NBA. But the "NFL Sunday Ticket" contract with DirecTV runs out next year. ...
- So Why Do We Need Another Addressable Consortium?
Advanced TV Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, June 18, 2021
Comcast Advertising's Larry Allen and Hasan Rahim of Altice's a4 advertising arm shed a bit more light on why several cable and satellite TV operators and Vizio have formed anoth ...
- Video Streaming Satisfaction Scores Slip, But Remain Higher Than Pay TV
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, June 8, 2021
A wide-ranging consumer survey looking at top 20 premium streamers and smaller providers showed a 2.6% dip to a 74 customer-satisfaction index. ...
- Pay TV Business Slightly Trims Net Loss In Subscribers
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, May 20, 2021
An estimated 1.90 million subscribers cut the cord in the first three months of 2021. ...
- Pay TV Drops 1.9 Million Subs In Q1, Cable Sees Record Losses
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, May 20, 2021
The largest U.S. pay-TV providers lost a combined 1.895 million net video subscribers in this year’s first quarter, according to Leichtman Research Group. That total was a slight improvement ov ...
- U.S. Pay-TV Revenues To Plunge By $23B By 2026
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, May 17, 2021
The U.S. share of global pay-TV revenues will decline from 52% to 40% between 2020 and 2026, projects Digital TV Research. ...
- Linear Addressable TV Revenues To Climb 33%, But Homes To Decline
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, May 12, 2021
The media research company estimates this year will see a 4.7% decline in addressable TV homes to 57.6 million. ...
- Would Biden's Infrastructure-Broadband Plan Impact A DirecTV/Dish Merger?
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Total U.S. pay TV subscriber homes dropped 7.3% in Q4 2020 -- the fifth in a series of consecutive 7% quarterly declines. ...
- DirecTV Subs Plunged By 3M In 2020 Amid Record 5.1M Pay-TV Loss
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, March 5, 2021
AT&T had a net loss of about 3.26 million subscribers across its four pay-TV services, on top of a combined loss of nearly 4.1 million in 2019. Hulu + Li ...
- Dish Network, DraftKings Make Integration Deal With Sports Wagering
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Initially, Dish customers can wager on NCAA basketball, NBA and NHL games. ...
- What Does DirecTV Turn Into Now?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Some analysts believe rural areas could be a possible improving ground for DirecTV. ...
- AT&T Spins Off Video Business, Starts Separate Company Named DirecTV
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, February 25, 2021
AT&T has finalized a $7.8 billion deal with investment asset company TPG Capital to start a stand-alone video company to include DirecTV. ...
- PE Firm TPG In Exclusive Talks For Stake In DirecTV: Reports
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, January 25, 2021
The deal could be valued at more than $15 billion, sources reported. DirecTV parent AT&T and TPG have declined to comment. ...
- Seattle Adopts NextGen TV -- Biggest Market To Date
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, December 16, 2020
BitPath -- which plans to launch the nation's first dedicated broadcast data network starting next year -- coordinated the efforts across the Seattle stations. ...
- Dish, Cox End Blackout, As 164-Station Feud With Nexstar Continues
Television News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, December 14, 2020
The Dish blackout of 14 Cox stations started in July. The two-week-old Dish dispute with Nexstar is said to be the largest local station blackout in TV history.. ...
- AT&T Sells Crunchyroll To Sony For $1.18 Billion, More DirecTV Offers
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, December 10, 2020
Looking to pay down debt -- and jettison non-core business -- AT&T has sold off Crunchyroll, its anime TV production and subscription platform business for $1.18 billion to Sony's Funimati ...
- Appellate Court Turns Away AT&T In Battle Over DirecTV Robocalls
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, November 23, 2020
Handing AT&T a defeat, a federal appellate court on Monday refused to reconsider a prior ruling that requires DirecTV to face a lawsuit alleging it violated a consumer protection l ...
- AT&T Hiking DirecTV, U-Verse Prices; Lowering Costs Of Premium Add-Ons
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, November 20, 2020
Increasing the platforms' ARPU probably won't hurt as AT&T reportedly explores selling a minority stake in DirecTV, U-verse and AT&T Now. ...
- DirecTV, Dish TV May Take Another Whack At Merger
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, November 12, 2020
"Make no mistake, whether it's a year from now, or 10 years from now. I believe it's inevitable those companies go together," Charlie Ergen, chairman of Dish said recently. ...
- Dish Network Pay TV Subscriber Growth In Q3, But Down 6.2% Overall Since January
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman -
Dish saw growth of 116,000 new subscribers in Q3 for its combined satellite and virtual pay TV business, helped by Sling TV, but subscribers declined overall in the last ...
- AT&T May Sell Minority Stakes In U-verse, AT&T Now, As Well As DirecTV: Report
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, November 5, 2020
AT&T has explored a sale of DirecTV before -- as recently as August -- but a potential packaged sale of its stakes in all three pay-TV platforms is a n ...
- WarnerMedia Takes Q3 Revenue Hit, HBO, HBO Max Inch Up To 38 Million Subscribers
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, October 22, 2020
AT&T's WarnerMedia took a major revenue hit of 11% in Q3, with particular impact from lower theatrical revenues. ...
- DoJ Still Wants Delay Of DirecTV, Dish Merger: Report
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, October 19, 2020
The DoJ says approval of such a merger is unlikely until 5G is more widely available in rural areas that now lack access to high-speed internet. ...
- Dish Taps Quantum Metric To Leverage Direct Consumer Data
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, October 5, 2020
The partnership comes as increased cord cutting since the pandemic is spurring MVPDs to leverage data to improve the customer experience. ...
- 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. ...
- AT&T Trying To Sell DirecTV -- Again
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, August 28, 2020
AT&T is again considering selling off its troubled DirecTV unit, according to reports. DirecTV has seen sharp declines in its pay TV satellite subscribers over the last few years ...
- OTT Now The 'Default' Source For Most American TV Viewers, Conventional TV Becomes An Also-Ran
Research Intelligencer, Joe Mandese - Friday, August 28, 2020
Conventional pay TV services (cable, satellite, telcos) no longer are the default source Americans tune to -- online is. That's the tipping point finding from an annual survey of ...
- DirecTV, AT&T TV Raise Prices For New Customers
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, July 1, 2020
Prices for existing customers of those two services, and for live-streaming service AT&T Now, have not been raised. ...
