If AT&T gets DirecTV, it could tightly package paid TV programming with broadband, making it difficult an more expensive to rely solely on over-the-top services for your video content. Read more »
Senate Commerce Committee chairman Jay Rockefeller is proposing to attach a sweeping overhaul of the retransmission consent rules to a bill all the affected parties want to see passed. Read more »
Though it’s sitting on its own trove of mobile broadband spectrum, Dish is looking for partners to provide fixed wireless LTE access to its customers homes. Sprint and nTelos are both… Read more »
With the three tie-up between Sprint, Clearwire and SoftBank now final, Dish Network is left empty handed. But Dish’s chairman Charlie Ergen is hatching other plans, some of which he’s already… Read more »
The chairman of Dish Networks toned down some of his recent rhetoric against broadcasters on today’s earnings call, and said he is in favor of a subscriber-advertising model for TV. Read more »
Sprint is juggling its two competing buyout offers. It’s appointed a special committee to evaluate Dish’s proposal on one hand, but it’s not delaying its wedding date with SoftBank on the… Read more »
The running battle over who has the rights to do what online with TV content took another turn this week when Fox Broadcasting asked a federal court in California for an… Read more »
The OTT video service being planned by Intel sure sounds like it meets the legal definition of a “multichannel video program distributor,” which means it will likely have to comply with… Read more »