SVOD
For AMC Networks, SVOD is its ‘significant opportunity’ moving forward
AMC Networks says it expects to have 5 million to 7 million subs to its SVOD services by 2024.
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Month: July 2019
Internet TV
AT&T gives peek at new live streaming TV service and rebrands DirecTV Now
AT&T is teasing its new live streaming TV service – AT&T TV – and making it oh, so obvious, that it’s ready to wash its hands of legacy pay-TV.
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Pay TV
APAC’s pay-TV market developing Millennial flu
APAC’s Pay-TV market has Millennial flu; symptoms include falling pay-TV usage and penetration, a rise in streaming adoption and in mobile video consumption
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Operators
For Dish, 5G wireless business is the next frontier
For Dish Network, a robust 5G wireless business is its next frontier, even as it navigates a pay-TV ecosystem that’s slowly dying.
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Operators
Charter focus: Connectivity, customer relationships… Video? Meh
Charter isn’t looking at video as a stand-alone business anymore, its focus is connectivity. Video just helps bring in the customers.
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Mobile
Sky Mobile 5G service to deploy in November fueled by Sky content
Sky Mobile 5G service is trying to get a jump on the UK market. But it’s Sky’s video content that gives it an edge with Millennials.
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Social Media
2020 Tokyo Olympics will see bigger deal between NBCU and Twitter
NBCU is expanding Twitters role at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics with additional – live – content planned.
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Operators
Comcast video subscriber losses top estimates; streaming service to launch in April
Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) beat its Q2 earnings forecast, despite missing on revenue, seeing increased video subscriber losses and even voice subscriber losses. The biggest cable operator in the US followed on the heels of AT&T’s Read More
Operators
Despite 946,000 subscriber losses in Q2, AT&T expanded its video business margin
AT&T will focus on high-value customers for its pay-TV services… despite its biggest subscriber loss ever in Q2.
OTT
Pay-TV fall prompts unbundling; will streaming services ‘rebundle?’ Nah
Anyone expecting a “great rebundling” of streaming services, a la the cable bundle, has missed the point of this ongoing consumer revolution.
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