Dish and Directv are the latest opponents to issue dueling data about the impact of a proposed rule change for the 12 GHz spectrum band. A proceeding at the FCC is studying opening up 12 GHz spectrum for two-way 5G…
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FCC Takes a Small Step Toward Resolving Retransmission Consent Disputes
The FCC is getting set to take a small step toward tackling the thorny problem of retransmission consent disputes. Prior to today’s monthly FCC meeting, the Commission adopted a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) seeking comment on the topic. Retransmission…
Video Cord Cutting Report: Top Pay-TV Providers Lost 5 Million Subscribers in 2019
Video cord-cutting continues at a fast pace, with the largest pay TV providers in the U.S. losing just under 5 million subscribers in 2019, more than three times the number in 2018, according to a new report from Leichtman Research…
Report: AT&T Leads Record Pay-TV Losses, Industry Loses Over 1.7 Million Subscribers
New research from the Leichtman Research Group found that pay-TV providers representing about 93% of the market lost approximately 1.74 million net video subscribers during the third quarter of the year. That’s considerably worse than the 975,000 pay-TV subscribers lost…
New OTT AT&T TV Service Launches in Some Markets and it Looks Familiar
AT&T’s new OTT TV service, AT&T TV, has trial launched in approximately 10 markets. The new service will become the company’s featured video service, ahead of legacy Directv and U-verse TV services. Markets that launched today include Orange and Riverside,…
ATVA: Retransmission Battles Rage On, Record TV Blackouts in 2019 Already
The year is only a little more than halfway over, yet 2019 television blackouts already have reached the previous annual record, according to the American Television Alliance (ATVA). The year already has seen 213 blackouts in which broadcasters block video…
Report Counts 60 Total Retransmission Blackouts So Far This Year
The U.S. video marketplace has suffered more than 60 total retransmission blackouts during the first six months of 2019 and nearly 550 in the past three and a half years, according to a new report from the American Television Alliance…
Kagan: Within Continuing Pay-TV Cord Cutting Trend, Virtual Multichannel Subscriber Growth Slows
The growth rate for virtual multichannel subscribers slowed in the first quarter of 2019, according to a new report from Kagan, a media research group within S&P Global Market Intelligence. Virtual multichannel subscriber growth was 5.8% in the first quarter…
New T-Mobile Video Offering TVision Home to Launch in 8 Markets, Lacks Promised Disruptive Quality for Now
T-Mobile on Sunday will launch the video offering that the marketplace has been expecting since the wireless carrier acquired video technology developer Layer3 in late 2017. The initial launch will include eight cities, but the company plans to launch additional…
AT&T: Phase Out of Legacy Directv to Begin with AT&T Osprey STB
AT&T hopes to eliminate truck rolls on new Directv video installations by using a box dubbed “Osprey” in place of a satellite dish, said John Stephens, AT&T senior executive vice president and chief financial officer at an investor conference today….
Kagan Finds More Than a Million Multichannel Video Subscriber Losses in 4Q 2018
The decline of traditional multichannel video continued during the fourth quarter of last year as the sector lost almost 1.1 million subscriptions, according to Kagan, a research group within S&P Global Market Intelligence. The video subscriber losses, which were from the…
Kagan: Broadband-Only Homes Surging, 23% Now Ditch Traditional Video
Broadband homes served by telcos and cable companies without pay-TV grew by 1.2 million in the third quarter of 2018, according to Kagan, a research group within S&P Global Market Intelligence. That is the largest increase in ‘broadband-only’ homes that…
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