Hereford, TX – To bolster their fiber network which is 75% complete, and position themselves as a true player in a competitive communications market, the leadership team at West Texas Rural Telephone Cooperative selected Innovative Systems as their new video…
WASHINGTON, November 18, 2020—The Federal Communications Commission today adopted a Report and Order revising its rules governing the resolution of program carriage disputes between video programming vendors and multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs). It also amends parallel rules governing program…
Verizon unveiled an updated streaming device today, Stream TV, giving customers an alternative to Roku, Amazon Fire TV, and Comcast’s Flex. The streaming set-top-box was first introduced by Verizon about a year ago. The updated Verizon Stream TV device is…
Comcast today launched a home security offering that the company calls “Self Protection” and which aims to leverage the company’s xFi Gateway to control an indoor or outdoor video camera. The launch of Comcast Self-Protection just prior to the winter…
TDS revealed 3Q 2020 results and both video and broadband growth, specifically fiber broadband, are leading the charge. The fiber broadband growth is not surprising, but video growth has been elusive for many. Video growth is a priority for TDS,…
Mobile carrier T-Mobile is the latest to enter the streaming TV market with the launch of TVision. The service offers a variety of channel line-ups and a new streaming media device, with pricing for 30 channels starting at $10/month. The…
In five years, more than half of U.S. broadband households – 58 million homes — will not use a service from a multi video programming distributor (MVPD), according to a video cord cutter forecast from The Diffusion Group (TDG). In…
New Lisbon, Indiana — September 23, 2020 — For New Lisbon Broadband and Communications in Indiana, it was never a question of not being in the video business, but what would be the best way to meet the needs of…
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Legacy pay-tv consumers have been the victims of ugly battles between TV networks and pay-tv distributors (cable, DBS, and telcotv providers) for quite some time. Those same battles have come…
The FCC has proposed fines exceeding $500,000 apiece for 18 television station licensees that were the focus of a complaint by AT&T involving negotiations for the retransmission fees that AT&T must pay to carry the stations’ content. The new FCC…
Although AT&T has been facing a range of critics for the company’s video strategy and has had some disappointments on that front, AT&T CEO John Stankey continues to see video as key to the company’s strategy. At an online financial…
Net gains in broadband-only homes experienced a record jump during the second quarter causing the year-to-date total in 2020 for cord cutting households to more than double, according to Kagan, a group within S&P Global Market Intelligence. Broadband-only homes are…