- 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 pay ...
- 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 narrowed ...
- 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 networks ...
- 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 competition ...
- 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 13 ...
- 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 services. ...
- 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 year ...
- 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. ...
- Q4 Video Trends: AVODs Dominate Favorite Bundles, YouTube Reigns
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, January 16, 2020
TiVo's latest video survey, which made more usage questions mandatory, shows a whopping seven video services per respondent (vs. 2.75 in its Q2 survey). ...
- AT&T Replacing Audience Network With HBO Max Preview Channel
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, January 10, 2020
AT&T says it hasn't yet decided what to do with the content on Audience Network, which includes the popular "Mr. Mercedes" series, based on Stephen King novels.Audience Network has been ...
- 2020: Another Tough Year Of Big 6% Declines For Pay TV Biz, One Analyst Says
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Look for more traditional pay TV losses in 2020 as higher pricing and new lower-cost D2C streaming platforms impact the business, one media analyst says. ...
- 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 new ...
- Dish Media Gives Marketers Extended Reach With Addressable TV
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, December 18, 2019
Dish Media Sales has started a new "reach" product that can extend national linear TV campaigns by identifying additional TV homes with an "addressable" TV campaign on Dish and Sling ...
- Dish, FreeWheel Partner On Tech To Integrate Traditional, Addressable TV Buys
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, December 12, 2019
Partners say the solution's unified view across the two types of inventories optimizes buys, sidesteps complications of using two tech platforms. ...
- DirecTV, U-verse To Raise Prices In Mid January
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, December 9, 2019
DirecTV has hiked prices each January for three years, reflecting AT&T's focus on more profitable subscribers -- which drove more than 1M subscriber losses in Q3 alone. ...
- Sky's New Film Studio Could Create 2,000 New Jobs
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Sky is planning to build a massive television and film studio near Elstree, which could create up to 2,000 new jobs, "The Guardian" reports. ...
- Sports TV Homes Key To Pay TV's Future
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, December 2, 2019
Sports TV viewers with cable, satellite or telco TV packages will be the key element of where pay TV will be in five years. A new study says 60% of ...
- Elliot And ET Reunited In Sky Christmas Ad
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Friday, November 29, 2019
In what "Campaign" describes as Sky's first Christmas brand ad, the satellite tv and telecoms company is reuniting ET with Elliot, who has now grown up and is raising a ...
- BBC iPlayer Deal Makes Sky The One To Watch As Streaming Wars Heat Up
London Blog, Sean Hargrave - Thursday, November 14, 2019
Placing BBC iPlayer on Sky Q, next to Netflix, makes Sky a useful home page for streamers. ...
- Virtual Pay TV Services See Slowing Growth
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, November 13, 2019
New virtual pay TV providers continue to see rising prices, with monthly packages now costing $45 to $50 per month. This is slowing the growth of the business. ...
- Analyst: Legacy Pay TV Will Lose More Subscribers In Q4, Virtual Pay TV To See Small Gains
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, November 11, 2019
Pivotal Research Analyst Jeff Wlodarczak estimates net losses in Q4 will amount to 1.5 million from combined cable, satellite, and telco services. In the just-completed Q3 there was a net ...
- Dish Network's Pleasant Surprise: Paid Subs Up By 148K In Q3
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, November 7, 2019
Sling TV gained 214,00, more than offsetting a 66,000 Dish TV loss, and earnings and revenue also exceeded analysts' expectations in the quarter. ...
- Pay-TV Players Hope To Become OTT 'Super-Aggregators'
Advanced TV Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, November 1, 2019
Most executives surveyed say they view growing consumption of standalone OTT services as an opportunity, although they're (appropriately) afraid of the FAANG gang. ...
- INCOMPAS Members To Sell Dish TV Video Products
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Internet, streaming, communications and tech companies will offer products including the Hopper 3 whole-home DVR and Sling TV, in the U.S. ...
- Apollo Proposes That AT&T Spin Off DirecTV, Merge With Dish Network In New Company
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, October 10, 2019
The private equity firm's pitch calls for forming a new company, still AT&T-controlled, that would also include rival Dish Network Corporation, reports Fox Business Network. ...
- DirecTV-Dish Network Merger Sounds Doable, Maybe Even Inevitable
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Satellite services face more competition -- from a host of new internet-delivered services. DirecTV and Dish have been struggling to keep up. ...
- Fox TV Stations, Cable Networks Dropped From Dish, Sling Following Carriage Dispute
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, September 26, 2019
Fox Corp.'s owned TV stations and cable networks have been dropped from Dish Network and Sling TV due to a dispute over retransmission carriage fees, including stations in 17 markets ...
- Sports TV Fans Likely To Be 'Sticky' With Pay Services, Fewer Cord-Cutters
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, September 23, 2019
A new study says regular TV sports viewers aren't likely to be "cord cutters" and tend to be "sticky" with traditional pay TV platforms -- cable, satellite, telco, and virt ...
