- 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 ...
- Forecast: 2022 Midterm Political Ads To Hit $7.8 Billion; Broadcast TV Up 30% To $3.8 Billion
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, August 26, 2021
Kantar notes that its estimate is a more conservative industry number, "n ...
- Pay-TV Cord-Cutting Slows - Along With Broadband Growth
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, August 20, 2021
On the pay-TV front, an actual gain for internet-delivered vMVPDs and low ...
- Satellite TV Wake Is Postponed - Pay TV Isn't Dying Fast, Either
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, August 18, 2021
Two of the major satellite pay TV businesses -- DirecTV and Di ...
- Dish Up 2% In Q2 Pay TV Revenue; Sling TV Adds 65,000 Subs
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, August 9, 2021
Dish TV subscriber declines accelerated -- losing 132,000, now totaling 8.55 mill ...
- Clarification: DirecTV Will Have 2 Services
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, August 6, 2021
- DirecTV Name Change: Consumers Know 'Stream' -- That's Enough
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, August 5, 2021
The new name is DirecTV Stream. This intends to signify DirecTV Stre ...
- AT&T's Pay-TV Spinoff Complete, DirecTV Stream Emerges
Video Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, August 3, 2021
The new company that includes the DirecTV, AT&T TV and U-verse operatio ...
- 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 ...
- 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 addressab ...
- 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 Ticke ...
- 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 a ...
- 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 small ...
- 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 thr ...
- 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 vid ...
- 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% ...
- 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% decli ...
- 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 ...
- 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 i ...
- 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 ga ...
- 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 f ...
- 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 T ...
- 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 reporte ...
- 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 da ...
- 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-o ...
- 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& ...
- 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 ...
- 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 selli ...
- 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 yea ...
- 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 ...