Comcast is offering broadband, local channels and HBO for $40 a month – but Time Warner’s CEO isn’t worried. Maybe because the sticker price isn’t what you end up paying. Read more »
Unlike Jeff Bewkes’ original vision for TV Everywhere, in which all new use-cases for TV content would be discretely licensed, the courts are carving out a growing list of use-cases that… Read more »
Viewing habits are changing, inexorably. Insofar as the networks’ business model remains premised on traditional linear TV viewing, they are vulnerable to disruption. But vulnerable doesn’t necessarily mean doomed. Read more »
A media CEO reminded people that, despite new internet distribution platforms, content owners remain in the drivers seat. He played down the idea of “cord cutters” but did acknowledge the emergence… Read more »
Just what do you call a company that hurts and helps your business at the same time? With Netflix draining ratings for some programs, spiking the performance of others, and all… Read more »
Hulu should require viewers to have a cable subscription, Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes suggested in an investor call following the company’s Q1 2012 earnings report this morning. “We think Hulu… Read more »
Jeff Bewkes capped off a string of strange diatribes in which he has compared Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) to “the Albanian army” and “a hamburger”… Read more »
Warned by an interviewer at today’s Goldman Sachs conference hat he was about to talk about cordcutting, the subject that won’t go away, Tim… Read more »
While his counterparts at CBS (NYSE: CBS) and Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) offer new streaming video deals with Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) and Amazon (NS… Read more »
Whether it was Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) CEO Glenn Britt declaring TV is dead, long live the video screen or Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) CEO… Read more »