- 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. ...
- Virtual Pay TV Providers See Little To No Help For Traditional Pay TV
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, May 8, 2020
Virtual pay TV providers for the first time ever have lost subscribers on a quarter-to-quarter basis, according to MoffettNathanson Research. These providers were once considered the savior of traditional p ...
- Dish's Sling TV Takes Big Q1 Subscriber Hit Due To COVID-19
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, May 7, 2020
Sling TV lost 281,000 subscribers due to sporting event delays/cancellations and increased competition from virtual pay TV providers and subscription on-demand services. Net subscriber losses at Dish TV were narrow ...
- Dish Media Expands Programmatic Set-Top-Box VOD Ad Inventory
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Advertisers can bid on ad VOD inventory through private, real-time auctions set up with demand-side platforms. Dish Media is making VOD ad inventory available on more than 60 TV networ ...
- Sky And Disney+ Sign Partnership Agreement
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Sky has signed a deal with Disney to make the Disney+ streaming service available through its Sky Q set-top boxes. "The Drum" believes the satellite platform was in stiff competiti ...
- AT&T TV Launches Nationally As DirecTV Continues To Decline
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, March 2, 2020
AT&T TV will be similar to DirecTV, offering internet-delivered live, linear TV networks, 55,000 video-on-demand programming titles and access to 5,000 apps. AT&T has been testing the service in ...
- Virtual Pay TV Providers' Growth Slows In 2019, Total Pay TV Universe Slips 3.8%
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, February 20, 2020
So-called virtual pay TV providers now collectively total 9.96 million subscribers, adding 630,000 subscribers in Q4 2019 vs. Q3, according to MoffettNathanson Research. ...
- Dish, DirecTV Merger 'Probably Inevitable'; Sling Now Behind Hulu, After Q4 Sub Declines
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, February 20, 2020
In Dish Network Corp.'s Q4 earnings call, chairman Charlie Ergen said a Dish TV merger with AT&T's DirecTV is very likely, given declines in subs for the linear pay-TV service ...
- Dish Trims Subscriber Losses In Q4, Net Income Higher
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Dish pay TV subscribers were down 194,000 vs. a decline of 334,000 in the year-ago quarter, with a slight rise in Sling TV subscribers vs. the same period a ye ...
- Netflix Paid Sub Option Added In Sky Deal Renewal
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, January 21, 2020
In addition to having access to some Netflix content via the Netflix app, U.K. Sky Q pay-TV customers can now opt to add Netflix's basic plan. ...
