National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC) members will continue to get MobiTV’s IPTV services under a master agreement between it and two entities: Xperi Holding Corp. and TiVo, which is its wholly-owned subsidiary. The agreement covers NCTC member’s use of the…
DALLAS, June 10, 2021 — NBC Olympics, a division of the NBC Sports Group, has selected AT&T to provide networking services for its production of the Games of the XXXII Olympiad, which take place in Tokyo, Japan, from July 23…
Customer satisfaction with their internet service provider remained steady, according to a new ISP customer satisfaction report from the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). The research was part of the ACSI Telecommunications Study 2020-2021, which also found an increase in…
A recently announced deal between Innovative Systems and Aureon is aimed at enabling smaller telcos to provide vMVPD services. Those services offer a cable TV-like content lineup but are distributed over broadband infrastructure. An example of a vMVPD (virtual multi-channel…
Amazon Prime Video penetration is already at 47% of broadband households, according to research from Parks Associates. With a new landmark NFL streaming rights deal, that penetration is expected to push past 50%. Parks Associates estimates that 77.3 million U.S….
Amazon announced a deal to acquire MGM studios for $8.5 billion today. The deal will provide Amazon a deep library of high value content and a studio and production house to create more, as it looks to compete in the…
The rate of fixed broadband traffic growth is slowing, according to new research from Strategy Analytics. The research firm’s bandwidth demand forecast calls for most households to need no more than 300 Mbps over the next ten years. “Close examination…
Mitchell, SD and Westby, WI ‐ Innovative Systems has partnered with Midwest Video Solutions to deliver a fully hosted end‐to‐end Streaming Video and Headend Service. This service will enable video operators the ability to provide a full lineup of television…
AT&T and Discovery, Inc. said today that they have agreed to combine Discovery’s entertainment assets with AT&T’s WarnerMedia assets. If approved by regulators, the deal is expected to close in mid-2022. The combination of WarnerMedia and Discovery entertainment, sports and…
MobiTV, a video services provider for over 100 video operators, is in bankruptcy with auctions underway for both its assets and for its patents/intellectual property. There are quite a few bidders and some drama as well. Reports have TiVo/Xperi and…
April 30, 2021 – Red River Communications, with over 4,000 customers in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota has started delivering the Innovative Systems Video solution using Arvig, a regional headend provider headquartered in Perham Minnesota. According to Red River…
A dispute between Roku and Google over placement of the YouTube TV app on the Roku platform is the latest reminder that legacy content skirmishes from the linear TV world are still present in the new streaming world. According to…
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