While the pay-TV bundle is getting slimmer, major telecom company T-Mobile is placing a strategic bet that customers will still spark to a hardware-based, higher-priced offering.
TVision Home will launch Sunday in Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and…
The European Union has accepted promises from Sky and Hollywood major studios not to engage in “geoblocking” of their content, ending a years-long antitrust case without fines or punitive action.
The landmark outcome will open national pay-TV markets that had long existed in their own silos, allowing consumers across…
Describing Dish Network’s negotiating approach as “bizarre,” Univision CEO Vince Sadusky said the Hispanic media giant’s carriage dispute with the major satellite operator is “likely permanent.”
While the executive has issued previous warnings in the same vein, his comments during Univision’s third-quarter earnings…
Cord-cutting, the bane of the traditional TV business, continues to outpace estimates and will climb nearly 33% this year to reach 33 million adults in the U.S., according to a new study by eMarketer.
The company defines cord-cutters as any adult who has canceled pay-TV service and continues to live without it. The…
EXCLUSIVE:Â The concept of channel surfing appears to be going out with the tide. Rather than flipping on live TV to see what’s on, viewers are increasingly defaulting to on-demand sources like SVOD services, according to a new study by Hub Entertainment Research.
In the latest edition of its annual “Decoding the…
As 21st Century Fox continues its pursuit of full control over European pay-TV group Sky, chairman James Murdoch won re-election today despite significant shareholder opposition.
Nearly 22% of all shareholders, and more than 48% of independent ones, opposed Murdoch being allowed to continue in the post.
Earlier this…
A new study suggests that pay-TV providers might not be able to count on today's 18- to 34-year-olds as longtime future customers. At the Cable Show today in Washington, Pivot — Participant Media's cable network that launches August — released the first of what says will be an annual industry report about how…
It’s a shame that the general public usually can’t read industry reports from Bernstein Research’s Craig Moffett. When he’s on, which is frequently, his stuff is as thought provoking and engagingly written as anything you’d see in The Atlantic or The New Yorker. So I’ll consider it a public service to summarize…
BSkyB has for years held exclusive rights to the movies of the major Hollywood studios in the first subscription pay-TV window, the UK’s Competition Commission pointed out in a provisional report issued today, saying Sky’s large subscriber base is preventing rivals BT and Virgin Media from bidding successfully against…
Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer touted upstart pay cable channel and broadband service EPIX and implied that the company is open to tweaking its groundbreaking but controversial distribution deal with Netflix. Now 2 1/2 years after it was announced, EPIX (the partnership of Lionsgate, Viacom and MGM) is available in some…
2ND UPDATE: I’ve just learned that Relativity Media will be in the distribution business sooner rather than later as it attempts to become a mini-major. Hmm.
UPDATE: This exclusive deal with Netflix might be impressive if more of Relativity Media’s movies did better at the box office. So it’s not exactly…
French publisher Lagardere has begun the process of selling its 20% share of the pay-TV group Canal Plus now that talks with 80% owner Vivendi have broken down. Vivendi was not going to pay the €1.4 billion ($1.8 billion) Lagardere wanted. Analysts I've spoken say that the IPO threat by Lagardere threat could be a…
