The importance “Sunday Ticket” to the AT&T/DirecTV deal underscores the degree to which the extent to which live streaming is starting to drive deals and investment in the over-the-top video space… Read more »
From the review of Comcast’s proposed acquisition of Time Warner Cable to the FCC’s proposed reboot of its overturned net neutrality rules, policymakers are playing a key role in shaping the… Read more »
Comcast is acquiring its nearest cable competitor, Time Warner Cable, for $45 billion. While it might seem like the deal is about video, our math says it is all about broadband… Read more »
Missing from much of the early touting of winnders and losers from the net neutrality ruling is a sense of just how complicated the business relationships among many broadband providers and… Read more »
During the third quarter the digital living room was fiercely contested ground and the newspaper business saw a potentially game-changing acquisition. Read more »
No, your ISP isn’t intentionally slowing down your YouTube or Netflix video streams. But it may also not exactly be helping to get them sped up. Read more »
Many long-standing legal rules of engagement between publishers and consumers tilted the playing field in unexpected ways in the first quarter. The period also saw a major expansion in the amount… Read more »
The purpose of the on-screen guide has shifted too. While the main objective is still to provide information on television programming, the EPG has the potential to be a much broader… Read more »
In the past few years over-the-top (OTT) TV has advanced from being an acronym for tech geeks to the new video frontier. But while anecdotal evidence may make it seem like… Read more »
Living room platform environments will change dramatically over the next few years. While the installed base and near-term opportunities are dominated by legacy set-top boxes driven by cable, telephone and satellite… Read more »