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 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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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 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….
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…
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…
Multichannel video subscribers declined by one million in 3Q18, according to a report from Kagan. The satellite DBS segment was hit particularly hard. The group cited these accelerating losses from satellite providers and slowing growth in over-the-top offerings from Sling…
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