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Sony said Tuesday it plans to shut down its PlayStation Vue skinny-bundle TV service in order to refocus on its core videogame business. The end of the line will come next January 30. Viewers of films and TV programming can continue to access them via the PlayStation Store and through partner apps. Sony is getting set…

Sony’s PlayStation Vue is expanding its “multi-view” feature, which already available on PlayStation 4, to Apple TV subscribers of the streaming service. The Vue skinny bundle, which was among the first lower-cost, internet-delivered TV players when it launched in 2015. Multi-view which was added two years ago on the…

A new report from UBS predicts a “steeper ramp” than previously forecast for so-called “skinny bundle” services like Sling TV and DirecTV Now in the coming years. By 2022, the financial institution’s media analysts predict, they will represent 25% of all pay-TV subscriptions. “As these offerings continue to…

The impact of cord-shaving and cord-cutting is continuing to be felt by pay-TV providers, who lost about 1,495,000 net video subscribers in 2017, according to an annual survey by Leichtman Research Group. Those losses are nearly double to pro forma level of 760,000 in 2016. Helping counter some of the drops has been…

Video streaming providers were originally known as “over-the-top” services because they gave viewers an alternative to cable and satellite. But today one of those services, Sony’s PlayStation Vue, is going back through the middle: It agreed to to offer its channel packages directly to about 9 million mostly rural…

PlayStation Vue’s skinny bundle of live streaming channels just got a little less skinny: The company is ditching its nearly $30 a month Access Slim package, which offers more than 55 channels including ESPN — but no local broadcasters. The cheapest package now is the Access plan, at about $40, that includes the Slim…

HBO and Cinemax have made a deal with Sony’s PlayStation Vue that will see the premium networks added to Internet-based TV service. The pact marks the first time either network's live programming will available directly to consumers as a stand-alone offering without the need of a bundle subscription and will cost $15…

Here’s the latest incentive for pay TV subscribers to cut the cord. Sony says today that it’s taking its PlayStation Vue streaming service nationwide. The company is adding 203 TV markets to cities where it has been available over the past year:  New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, San Francisco and…

Sony has good news today for its PlayStation Vue customers in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia and San Francisco. They’ll get a $10 a month price cut even as their programming line up expands to include local ABC stations, ESPN, and Disney Channel. In Dallas and Miami, where ABC doesn’t own the local…

Investors will be looking for any signal about the growth prospects for ESPN later today when Disney reports September quarter earnings and talks to analysts. So it’s probably no coincidence that the company used this morning to disclose that Disney-owned ABC stations and cable channels including ESPN Media Networks…

Sony said today that it is expanding its OTT service PlayStation Vue to Los Angeles and San Francisco starting tonight and will offer a la carte channels across the country next month. Andrew House, head of Sony Computer Entertainment International, said at the company’s E3 press conference that PlayStation users will…

Apple won’t have Showtime to itself when the premium channel’s new standalone online service launches in early July. The CBS-owned channel says today that Roku and Sony PlayStation Vue customers will be able to subscribe to the $10.99 a month service, which will include East and West Coast feeds, plus on demand…