AT&T posted yet another strong quarter for new connections, but unlike previous periods this fourth quarter was driven (pun intended) largely by cars. Of its 1.9 million net subscriber additions, 800,000… Read more »
Disney and DirecTV announced a new multi-year carriage deal Tuesday that will for the first time give DirecTV customers the ability to watch live and on-demand content from ESPN’s WatchESPN service. Also… Read more »
DirecTV soft-launched its Latino streaming service Yaveo Monday, offering three live TV feeds channels as well some 2700 hours of on-demand content for $7.99 per month. Yaveo operates completely separate from… Read more »
After weeks of threats, CBS followed through late Friday afternoon and took its stations off Dish Network. Dish subscribers in 14 markets around the country, including San Francisco, Los Angeles and… Read more »
Yaveo is targeting Spanish-speaking audiences with a mix of movies, telenovelas and live soccer matches. We’ve got the deets on a number of unannounced content partners. Read more »
AT&T’s ambitions of becoming a mile-high ISP are no more. The carrier is abandoning its plans to offer in-flight internet services so it can focus on its terrestrial acquisitions. Read more »
As sports viewing increasingly goes over-the-top and mobile, taking the traditional broadcast audience with it, big-ticket, broadcast-only rights deals are going to grow increasingly problematic for the broadcasters. Read more »
Consumers increasingly are willing and able to assemble their own, a la carte TV bundles, through a mixture of traditional and OTT channels, while eschewing pre-packaged bundles dictated by the networks. Read more »