It’s no secret that streaming OTT services like Sling TV, DIRECTV NOW, and PlayStation Vue are on the rise and beginning to offer a legitimate OTT alternative to traditional subscription pay TV packages. But outside of a few major cities,…
Local Content
Retransmission Consent Reform: FCC Sets Out Legal Arguments
The FCC is on strong legal grounds in revising rules governing retransmission consent agreements between broadcasters and pay TV providers, argued Bill Lake, chief of the FCC media bureau, in a blog post yesterday. For years pay TV providers –…
FCC Proposes Retransmission Reform, Looks at ‘Distant Signals’
One of the most contentious issues in the video industry today is retransmission consent. FCC Chairman Wheeler just jumped into the middle of it. The practice, where video service providers (VSPs) and local broadcasters negotiate a per-subscriber fee for the…
Creating Business Value Out of Local Content Channels
Many video service providers have long offered local content channels, featuring local events, local sports, and special interest stories. The model for providing local content is evolving and many companies are now looking to their local content channels to deliver…
Supreme Court Aereo Decision: Service Violates Copyright
The Supreme Court today ruled that Aereo’s video service violates copyright law – a decision that will force Aereo to shut down its innovative offering. Aereo has offered a remote antenna service that enables consumers to receive broadcast TV channels…
Move Over ESPN, BEK Sports Building Their Own Sports Network Legacy
The smiling announcer tells us how the quarterback has performed in earlier contests this season, as a graphic summarizing the QB’s stats appears on screen. The scene changes to a wide angle view of the field for the kick-off, then…
DISH Claims Complete Local Station Coverage, 210 Local Markets
ENGLEWOOD, Colo., May 27, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX News Network/ — DISH Network L.L.C., the fastest-growing pay-TV provider in America, today announced that it plans to launch local broadcast channels in 29 new markets on June 3, 2010, becoming the…
DirecTV Expands Local Channel Coverage
More Than 97 Percent of U.S. TV Homes Will Have Access to Local Channels from DIRECTV; Roll Out of New Local Markets to Begin in June EL SEGUNDO, Calif., May 17, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — DIRECTV, the world’s most popular…
Bresnan to Feature Local Content
Bresnan Communications, the 13th largest cable MSO, will ramp up their local content efforts with Clearleap’s Internet video platform. Bresnan, based in Purchase, New York, will use the Clearleap’s platform to manage ‘The Spot,’ a video on demand service made…
Atlantic Broadband Leaps In With Local, Web Content for VOD
Atlantic Broadband, a mid size cable operator based in Quincy, Mass. with operations on the east coast, will launch a television VOD channel featuring both locally produced and web derived content. The MSO will utilize technology from ClearLeap to power…
Verizon Launches Local Content Channel, FiOS1
FiOS1 is a new local content channel concept being launched in Verizon’s New York metro market. The ‘hyper-local’ channels will focus on Long Island and New Jersey, and offer local news, information, entertainment and sports programming. Verizon is following a…
Local Content Going Mobile
IPTV and cable providers have long known that local content can be an effective differentiation strategy. That view is now extending to mobile wireless service, with Pivot Wireless experimenting with local video content for mobile phones. Not to be confused…
