- 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 ...
- 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 spurri ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 defau ...
- 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 servi ...
- 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 subscribe ...
- 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 increas ...
- 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 s ...
- 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+ streami ...
- 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 ...
- 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, addi ...
- 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 ...
- 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 334,0 ...
- 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 Netfl ...
- 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 ...
- 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 conte ...
- 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 prici ...
- 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 pri ...
- 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 exte ...
- 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 inventori ...
- 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 foc ...
- 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 ne ...
- 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 ...
- 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 satelli ...
- 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 ...
- 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 month ...
- 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 amou ...
- 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 los ...
- 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 servic ...