January 31, 2013 — EL SEGUNDO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–DIRECTV continues to make great strides toward evolving its DIRECTV Everywhere service, with a new digital video ad insertion solution developed in partnership with FreeWheel, the industry’s leading video advertising technology provider. Through the new partnership, DIRECTV is...
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Verizon introduced their latest FiOS TV channel line-up, FiOS Select HD, this week. The most notable feature of this line-up is sports programming, or actually, the lack of any sports programming. FiOS Select HD offers 140+ channels, with 30+ in HD (final count depends on...
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Las Vegas, NV – Jan 9, 2013 –The Digital Living Network Alliance® (DLNA®) today announced that Service Providers are now using DLNA Guidelines to deliver premium services to consumer devices. Service Providers including Comcast, Cox, DIRECTV, Orange and Time Warner Cable have deployed products implementing...
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The rising cost of sports programming is out of control, some would argue. The numbers can get mind boggling. Consider that ESPN recently agreed to pay the NFL $15.2 billion for Monday Night Football rights, which was a whopping 73% more than the previous rights...
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The Institute for Local Self-Reliance has created a fact sheet that could help organizers of community broadband networks garner support for their projects. The two-page document includes examples of how community broadband networks in eight states have helped attract business to or retain businesses in...
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Premium pay-TV service subscribers are more loyal and more likely to purchase additional products from their providers than those who subscribe to basic and expanded basic programming packages, according to new research results from J.D. Power and Associates. In its “2012 U.S. Residential Television Service...
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The increase in pay TV programming costs is unsustainable, argues a research note from financial analysts at Bernstein Research issued yesterday. Bernstein researchers focused on DirecTV but they also noted that rising programming costs have been a concern for many video service providers. Bernstein researchers...
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NEW YORK, July 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Viacom (NASDAQ: VIA, VIAB) today announced that the company has reached a long-term agreement to renew carriage with DIRECTV. All 26 Viacom networks, including Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, BET, CMT, Logo, Spike, TV Land, MTV2, VH1, VH1 Classic,...
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DirecTV seems to be winning the public relations battle in its war with Viacom over programming costs. Change.org, a website focused on enabling end users to create on-line petitions, reports that three people have created petitions taking DirecTV’s side in the dispute while only one...
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DirecTV shored up its bundling strategy by adding both Exede by ViaSat and Hughes’ HughesNet Gen4 next-generation satellite broadband services to their TV offer. Both satellite broadband services claim download speeds of 12+Mbps, but actual speeds and availability vary widely. Exede (formerly WildBlue) is available...
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EL SEGUNDO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– DIRECTV (NASDAQ: DTV), one of the world’s leading providers of digital television entertainment services, and Pandora (NYSE: P), the leading personalized radio service, are now giving customers unlimited access to personalized radio stations that play only the music they love from...
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EL SEGUNDO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– DIRECTV and AT&T* signed a three-year extension to their commercial agreement and will continue to offer a co-branded version of DIRECTV’s satellite television service across the 22 states where AT&T offers residential broadband and voice service. This agreement, which has been...
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