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…
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Video Cord Cutter Forecast: More than Half of U.S. Broadband Homes Will Cut by 2025
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…
Indiana Operator Combines Streaming and Linear Video Service
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…
Ugly Legacy Pay-TV Realities Emerge for Streaming Industry in the Form of Streaming TV Blackouts
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…
First of its Kind FCC Retransmission Fine Decision Sets Stage for Future Fines Against Broadcasters
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…
AT&T CEO: Video Strategy is Key But Path Won’t Be Easy
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…
Report: Cord-Cutting Accelerates, Now 37% of Broadband Households
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…
DISH Media Partners with Verizon Media to Automate Addressable Advertising
09.02.2020 — BASKING RIDGE, N.J. Verizon Media is expanding its omnichannel programmatic platform today, announcing an advanced TV partnership with DISH Media in which Verizon Media’s demand-side platform (DSP) will provide automated access to DISH’s household addressable ad inventory. The…
Report: Samsung Has Highest Streaming TV Market Share
More than a billion streaming TV and video devices are now in use worldwide, according to streaming TV market share research from Strategy Analytics. Researchers track devices in 27 countries. With a 17% market share, Samsung is the leading streaming…
Altice Atlantic Broadband Acquisition Would Target Enhanced Scale
Video and broadband provider Altice USA said today that it has made an offer to acquire Cogeco, owner of video and broadband provider Atlantic Broadband. The proposal also calls for Altice to sell Cogeco’s Canadian operations to Rogers Communications. The…
Iowa Cable Provider Goes with Innovative MG-TV
August 31, 2020 — While they fully recognize the fluid state of video, Jefferson Telecom felt that converting their cable system using the Innovative Systems video solution made the best sense for this central Iowa community, in conjunction with their…
As Industry Drools Over C-Band 5G Spectrum, ACA Urges FCC to Reconsider C-band Relocation
ACA Connects: America’s Communications Association has asked the FCC to stay the August 31 deadline for earth station owners to make a choice about the future of their operations as the commission gets set to auction a portion of the…
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