Between Directv, U-verse TV, and the carrier’s streaming DirectvNow service, AT&T pay-TV subscriber losses amounted to 946K in 2Q19, just shy of 1 million. Satellite delivered Directv lost 778K subscribers alone. If you add AT&T’s 627K pay-TV subscriber losses in…
WarnerMedia today unveiled the name of its new streaming OTT service, scheduled to launch commercially in spring of 2020 as HBO Max. The service will include video content from HBO as well as from Warner Bros. Television and exclusive streaming…
July 9, 2019 — Nashua, New Hampshire — Consolidated Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CNSL) today announced the company is launching 1 Gig broadband services to more than 12,000 Nashua, N.H., residential and small business locations. The enhanced service will use the company’s…
AT&T Chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson told an investor conference this morning that its soon to launch SVOD service will be the company’s “key video product,” leading its video growth strategy. The service is scheduled to beta launch in the…
DALLAS, March 12, 2019 — We know you love HBO—and NOW you won’t miss a moment when you stream with DIRECTV NOW! Tomorrow we’re debuting two new AT&T video packages that include premium access to HBO. With HBO, customers can now…
OTT services will accelerate their global expansion over the next five years, Parks Associates predicts in a new report. Parks’ OTT video households forecast calls for that number to exceed 310 million by 2024 Global audiences offer unique challenges that…
Netflix, followed by Amazon Prime, are the top OTT video services in the U.S. market, based on estimated number of subscribers, according to new research from Parks Associates. Those two providers, and third-place Hulu all held their top positions since…
A DISH HBO blackout is raising competitive concerns, given HBO is now owned by DISH competitor AT&T. The two are involved in an all too common dispute about carriage fees and distribution rights for video programming. DISH has been involved…
The new AT&T video streaming service that the company expects to launch this quarter in competition with Netflix will have a price tag exceeding $15, according to reports coming out of the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit in Los Angeles…
With the addition of Time Warner content obtained through their Time Warner acquisition, AT&T will position a direct-to-consumer entertainment product to take on Netflix and others, said WarnerMedia CEO John Stankey at an investor conference today. This, of course, is…
Netflix continues to provide more of what viewers want than competing subscription video on demand (SVOD) services, according to a new report about the best SVOD offering from customer experience research firm UserTesting. Netflix scored a 90 out of 100…
There is a new member to the upper echelon of subscription OTT services in the U.S. market, according to new subscription OTT market share research from Parks Associates. The firm found that Netflix, Amazon Video (aka Amazon Prime) and Hulu…
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