- FCC Chair Questions YouTube TV Alleged 'Faith' Discrimination
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Friday, March 7, 2025
"Concerns have been raised with the FCC that YouTube TV discriminates again ...
- Should Virtual Pay TV Services Pursue Adding Streamers More Aggressively?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, October 9, 2024
The NFL drives virtual pay TV subscriber growth because NBC, CBS, A ...
- It's Friday The 13th - Do You Know Where The NFL's Brand Equity Is?
TV Watch, Joe Mandese - Friday, September 13, 2024
I usually resist covering self-serving media trade studies like the TVB's sho ...
- Password Sharing Falls Slightly: Heavy TV, Streaming Viewers Are Big Users
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, September 6, 2024
More than four in 10 people someone's else login and password f ...
- Premium Streamers Provide Best 'Ad Experience,' MVPDs Have The Worst: Study
Advanced TV Insider, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, July 31, 2024
A new Hub Research Entertainment survey finds 53% of respondents view advertisi ...
- Entertainment Bundles: Consumers Want More Than Just Video
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, May 20, 2024
Consumers - especially young consumers - want streaming "bundles" to be mo ...
- Sling Freestream Adds More Channels, Now Totaling 430+
MediaDailyNews, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, January 2, 2024
The rebranded FAST launched last February with 210 channels. ...
- Wieser: Streaming Price Hikes May Be Working Against Pay TV
MediaDailyNews, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, November 21, 2023
Overall consumer video spend rose 2% in Q3, but streaming gains we ...
- JD Power: Live Streamers Command Far Higher Loyalty Than Cable/Satellite, YouTube TV Rules
MediaDailyNews, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, November 17, 2023
Likelihood of switching services in the next year is 12% with streamer ...
- YouTube TV Drives vMVPDs To 20% Share Of Pay-TV Subscribers
MediaDailyNews, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, November 16, 2023
An estimated Q3 gain of 600,000 puts YouTube TV in striking distan ...
- Dish Lays Off 500, Resolves 2-Month Hearst TV Blackout
MediaDailyNews, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, November 13, 2023
The besieged company's stock has lost about 75% of its value ...
- 23 House Dems Take Streamers' Side In Regulatory Battle With Local TV
MediaDailyNews, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, November 9, 2023
The letter to the FCC follows recent one from 20 senators backi ...
- vMVPD Apps Grab 70% Of CTV Device Ad Spend, Hulu Leads N.A. CTV Developers
MediaDailyNews, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, October 19, 2023
Pixalate releases its Q2 vMVPD traffic analysis and CTV developers reports. ...
- 20 Senators Push FCC To Regulate vMVPDs
MediaDailyNews, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, October 20, 2023
A letter from Sen. Ben Ray Lujan and 19 others backs loc ...
- Traditional Pay-TV Households Drop Below 50%, vMVPDs Inch Up To 15%
Advanced TV Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, October 5, 2023
Today, just 56% of those 18-34 have any kind of pay-TV servic ...
- AT&T Exploring Sale Of DirecTV Stake: Report
MediaDailyNews, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, October 5, 2023
AT&T uses its 70% stake in the standalone DirecTV company to offs ...
- Live Streamers, At $69 Per Month, Far Less Likely To Churn Than Traditional Pay TV
MediaDailyNews, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, October 3, 2023
YouTube TV is #1 in satisfaction among live streaming services, followed ...
- SVODs Now Nearly Tied With Live TV As Viewers' Default Starting Point
MediaDailyNews, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, September 13, 2023
While live TV was still found to be the top viewing defau ...
- Pay-TV's Sub Losses Slowed In Q2
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, August 16, 2023
But Q2 still saw 1.73 million combined losses, including 543,000 at Comca ...
- 22% Of Adults Have Dropped A Streamer Recently, But Don't Blame The Ads
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, July 11, 2023
DirecTV Advertising survey finds top three reasons for dropping paid ad-supported ...
- Xumo Integrating FAST Channels Into Comcast X1 Cable Box
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, June 14, 2023
Comcast will be the first MVPD to integrate FASTs. ...
- YouTube TV Is Sole Pay-TV Provider To Add Subs In Disastrous Q1
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, May 17, 2023
YouTube TV is now the fifth-largest pay-TV operator. Overall, the pay-TV sect ...
- Turnaround: Consumers Reduce Video Services Stacking, FAST Adoption Growth Stalls
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, May 12, 2023
The percentage subscribing to three or more 'Big 5' SVODs is dow ...
- Frontier Offers Combined-Billing YouTube TV, Fiber Internet Bundle To Incentivize 'Ditching Cable'
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, March 28, 2023
Frontier is also offering a $10 monthly discount on YouTube TV f ...
- YouTube TV Price Hike Amid Cord-Cutting: Virtuals Making Their Channel Cuts?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, March 20, 2023
YouTube TV has become one of the priciest virtual pay TV provider ...
- YouTube TV Hikes Basic Price $8, Offsets With 4K Price Cut
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, March 17, 2023
After paying a reported $14 billion for rights to the NFL Sund ...
- Sinclair ABC Affiliates Dropped From Hulu+ Live TV
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, March 9, 2023
This marks the second recent clash between local TV affiliates and vMVPD ...
- Pay-TV Sub Losses Soared To 5.9M In 2022
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, March 6, 2023
Comcast was again the biggest loser, at minus 2 million. FuboTV l ...
- Local TV Stations' Retransmission Revenues In Danger Of Sinking: Analyst
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, March 3, 2023
TV stations and other platforms have "less and less quality programming, ...
- Sling TV Launches FAST With Paid Access Options
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, February 10, 2023
Sling is making it easy for users of the free service ...