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DirecTV Partners with FreeWheel on TV Everywhere
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…
Latest Verizon FiOS TV Channel Line-Up Includes No Sports
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…
DirecTV, Cablecos Now Use DLNA Guidelines
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 Institutes Sports Programming Surcharge, Opens Debate
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,…
Fact Sheet Documents Community Broadband Job Creation
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…
Report: Premium Pay-TV Subscribers More Loyal, More Satisfied
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.…
DirecTV and Viacom Reach Carriage Agreement
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,…
DirecTV Winning PR War Against Viacom
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…
DirecTV Adds Satellite Broadband Bundles
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…
DirecTV and Pandora Partner on Personalized Streaming Music Offering
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…
AT&T and DirecTV Extend Reseller Agreement
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…
Verizon to Launch Fixed LTE Service in Fourth Quarter
Verizon is famous for conducting field trials of new technologies years before the company might actually deploy those technologies—so when Telecompetitor reported last year that Verizon was trialing a fixed LTE offering in Erie, N.Y.…