DirecTV adds another 600,000 Latin American users in Q1
While expansion into Latin America hasn’t proven easy for subscription-based U. S. media service providers, DirecTV is beginning to provide examples of the payoff.
View ArticleDish Invites You to Skip Primetime Broadcast Ads
So here's something advertisers are unlikely to be wild about: Auto Hop, a new feature on Dish Network, will allow subscribers to automatically skip broadcast ads in DVR playback (starting the day...
View ArticleAnalyst: Forget Mad Men, does Dish hate all advertising?
With the satellite TV bundler already grabbing headlines over an especially pungent carriage dispute with AMC Networks, Sanford Bernstein senior analyst Craig Moffett took Dish to task Thursday for...
View ArticleDish Invites You to Skip Prime-time Broadcast Ads
So here's something advertisers are unlikely to be wild about: Auto Hop, a new feature on Dish Network, will allow subscribers to automatically skip broadcast ads in DVR playback (starting the day...
View ArticlePay TV growth keeps slowing: 484K video users added in Q1
The pay TV business continued to expand in the first quarter, but that growth is clearly decelerating.
View ArticleNetflix CFO: Really, we didn’t kill Spongebob’s ratings!
That was a key takeway from Netflix chief financial officer David Wells Wednesday, as he addressed investors at the J. P. Morgan 40th Annual Technology, Media and Telecom Conference in Boston.
View ArticleAnalyst: Digital Newfronts will fail to take TV dollars
Will the major digital media companies succeed in creating a springtime advertising sales market on par with TV’s long-dominant upfront? At least one prominent research firm doesn’t believe so.
View ArticleAnalyst: Latin America makes DirecTV especial
DirecTV is saddled with rising program-licensing costs and slowing subscriber growth in the U. S. , not to mention an obsolete one-way broadcast platform that lacks any broadband-delivery capability.
View ArticleAdvertising: Jennie Finch Pitches for Child’s Version of Chobani Yogurt
Chobani, the market leader in Greek yogurt in the United States, is advertising its new children’s product with a campaign that features the former Olympian Jennie Finch.
View ArticleFor Netflix users, “catch-up” TV viewing has a catch
For the last two weeks, I’ve been what Netflix likes to describe as a binge viewer, watching two, sometimes three episodes a night of the acclaimed AMC adult drama Breaking Bad.
View ArticleDish facing doom in Voom litigation, analysts say
That was the advice given to Dish Network by several high-profile media analysts Wednesday morning. The satellite company, they say, should settle its lawsuit over the failed Voom HD venture with...
View ArticleDish facing doom in Voom litigation, analysts say
That was the advice given to Dish Network by several high-profile media analysts Wednesday morning. The satellite company, they say, should settle its lawsuit over the failed Voom HD venture with...
View ArticleNokia halves Lumia 900's US price
Finnish manufacturer slashes cost of flagship smartphone in bid to stem loss of market share, as analysts remain gloomy.
View ArticleWhy Mom and Dad Fight
If you've read any decent media coverage in the last few weeks, you could be forgiven for coming to the conclusion that networks and cable operators have all gone totally bonkers at once. Viacom and...
View ArticleDay 27 of the Dish vs. AMC standoff: Where’s the subscriber revolt?
Can a major pay TV service really just drop a somewhat major channel that’s currently running a widely anticipated, Emmy-winning series and get away with it?.
View ArticleIn Search of Enduring Value
Yes , I remember Dun and Bradstreet. In the old UK headquarters in High Wycombe , the “white elephant” building that was intended to become the global data centre ( in the days when you concentrated...
View ArticlePay TV subscriber losses just “seasonal,” analyst says
Is the increasing frequency in which the pay TV industry finishes quarters with net subscriber losses a sign the business will soon be overrun with over-the-top competition?.
View ArticlePearson CEO Scardino out; what next for FT?
Her company made £2 billion ($3. 1 billion) in digital content revenue last year. Now Financial Times publisher Pearson’s CEO Marjorie Scardino is leaving the company after 15 years.
View ArticleTexas Instruments cuts 1,700 jobs, winds down tablet chips
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Texas Instruments is eliminating 1,700 jobs, as it winds down its mobile processor business to focus on chips for more profitable markets like cars and home appliances.
View ArticleNetworks Hope to Find a Following
If you work for a broadcast television network and your letterhead doesn’t feature a multicolored peacock logo, it’s probably safe to say that the 2012-13 season has failed to live up to even your most...
View ArticleNY community papers struggle post-Sandy
The Wave offices, post-Hurricane Sandy. Photo credit: Henry Gass During Hurricane Sandy, the offices of The Wave, a community newspaper in the Rockaways, Queens, got hit by a five-foot tidal surge. Now...
View ArticleAnalysts: Apple may have better shot at Apple TV outside the US
While Apple TV already exists as a set-top box “hobby“, prospects for it turning in to a TV set that might reinvent the broadcast business are lengthening to a November 2013 launch, according to one of...
View ArticleAnalyst: CBS Would Win the C7 Battle
After taking a good, long look at TiVo’s set-top-box data as it pertains to prime time broadcast ratings, one influential analyst is of the opinion that Les is more.
View ArticleAnalyst: Nielsen’s Revised Sample Won’t Immediately Impact Ad Market
If a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, Nielsen’s plans to expand its sample to include non-linear TV deliveries is a bit like lacing up one’s boots before planting one foot in...
View ArticleA la Carte Wars: Cablevision Sues Viacom for Bundling
In an apparent bid to set a legal precedent, Cablevision on Tuesday announced that it has filed a lawsuit against Viacom for “bundling,” the practice by which programmers force distributors to carry...
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