- Pay-TV Sub Losses Tick Up In Q1, Comcast, DirecTV Hardest-Hit
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, May 18, 2022
vMVPDs' losses accelerated in the quarter. ...
- TV Bundles Grow As Viewers Add Streaming Services
Research Intelligencer, - Friday, May 13, 2022
Many consumers say they plan to add to their current number ...
- Will TV's Ad Glut Be Forgotten As Consumers Have Obvious Options?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Streaming video platforms have put traditional ad-supported TV, especially cable TV net ...
- Dish Network Loses Combined 462K Dish TV, Sling Subs
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, May 9, 2022
The company also fell into negative cashflow, sending its stock down ...
- Roku, Apollo Global Management Reportedly Bidding On Stake In Starz
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, May 4, 2022
The joint Roku/Apollo bid could be as much as 20% for Star ...
- Will Political Ad Spend Remain High For Linear TV?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, May 3, 2022
When including all media platforms -- local broadcast, local cable/satellite, radio, digit ...
- DirecTV Starts DirecTV Advertising, Leifer To Head Up New Division
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, April 1, 2022
DirecTV is starting its own ad sales team headed by DirecTV ...
- Cable TV Networks And Their Original Programs: What Is Their Future?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, March 28, 2022
Linear cable TV nets have streaming-platform sister services. What remains for tho ...
- Are Consumers Still Spending Too Much On Linear TV And Streaming?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, March 18, 2022
TV station executives are trying to appeal not just to cord-cutting consumer ...
- Video Streamers' National TV Spend Continues To Climb
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Video streaming platforms' paid national TV advertising continues to soar year-to-date ...
- OAN Sues AT&T After Being Dropped By DirecTV, But Ad Deal Continues
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, March 14, 2022
The parent company of OAN, the conservative-focused TV news network dropped ...
- Top Pay TV Providers See Subscriber Decline Of 5.8% In 2021
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Cord-cutting continues to hurt top pay TV providers. The top seven cab ...
- Apple, Ford, Dell, As Well As DirecTV and Roku, Join Russian Retreat
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, March 2, 2022
DirecTV dropped RT America, the sister network to Russia Today, and Ro ...
- DirecTV Drops RT America
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, March 1, 2022
In a statement issued Tuesday, The National Association of Broadcasters said ...
- Invidi Starts National Addressable TV Platform
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, March 2, 2022
Invidi is starting up a new ad platform that will allow programme ...
- Dish Network Pay TV Business Weakens, Satellite/Pay TV Revenue Down 1.5% in Q4
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, February 25, 2022
As Dish Network continues to seek mobile-phone business growth, its core satellite/virtu ...
- NFL License Fee For Its 'Sunday Ticket' About To Skyrocket - Should We Expect Anything Less?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, February 28, 2022
The NFL has made deals with NBCU, Fox, ABC/ESPN and a "Thursd ...
- 70% Of TV Viewers Stream, Streamed Ads Generate More Attention: Harris Poll
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, February 10, 2022
Higher percentages report paying more attention to streamed ads than ads ...
- DirecTV, Dish Resume Merger Talks: Could 2022 Finally Be The Year?
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, January 12, 2022
After several aborted attempts over 20 years, the satellite TV companies a ...
- vMVPD Keeps Growing, But Doesn't Slow Down The Pay TV Industry Business
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, January 5, 2022
Virtual pay TV providers now total 14.2 million -- up 17% v ...
- DirecTV Gently Cuts Back On Channels, Asks Viewers For Input
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, December 16, 2021
Some DirecTV customers were notified in October that certain channels would ...
- Are Roku's Rivals Coming? The Market Thinks So
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, November 24, 2021
For many consumers, having a more primary service for the bulk ...
- Leichtman: Pay-TV Subs Down 650K In Q3, Vs. 1.23M Loss In Q2
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, November 19, 2021
AT&T's spun-off DirecTV, U-verse and AT&T TV collectively lost 412,000 subs ...
- Dish, Sinclair Reach 3-Months' Delayed Carriage Deal
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, November 15, 2021
But the deal doesn't include Sinclair's RSNs, as sports leagues had ho ...
- Cord Cutting Slowed Significantly In Q3
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, November 12, 2021
Pay-TV subscriptions declined by only 105,000 compared to Q2, estimates one anal ...
- Disney To Pull The Plug On ESPN Classic On Jan. 1
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, November 5, 2021
The network and its on-demand service lost their differentiation, and much ...
- Sling TV Adds 117,000 Subscribers, But Dish TV Down 130,000
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, November 5, 2021
Dish Network totaled 10.98 million pay-TV subscribers -- down from 11.42 milli ...
- New ViacomCBS, Altice Carriage Deal Includes Streaming Services
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, October 18, 2021
Optimum and Suddenlink customers will now be able to sign up f ...
- Tegna Vs. Dish: Yet Another Blackout Threat
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, October 6, 2021
A blackout would mean loss of access to local ABC, CBS, NB ...
- DirecTV Ramps Up National TV Ad Spend With New Streaming Service
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, September 23, 2021
DirecTV Stream, one of the newest internet-based live TV/on-demand streaming services, h ...