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A New Era in TV
TV image via Tomislav PinterWe have entered a new era in TV. My parents grew up in the 1950s and 1960s watching broadcast/network TV. I grew up in the 1970s and 1980s watching cable (and satellite) TV....
View ArticleDirecTV to Increase Prices by 4.5 Percent
DirecTV plans to increase the prices of its programming packages by an average of 4.5 percent, starting Feb. 7, due to the higher programming costs the satellite-television provider expects to pay in...
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Why Al Jazeera's Cable Move Could Cost Much More Than $500 Million
Al Jazeera could have been the first really serious player to make a big bet on Web video news. Instead, it’s placing a giant bet on cable TV. Why? I asked yesterday, and many of you replied. Thanks!...
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DirecTV Bets on Web Video Ad Manager FreeWheel
Here’s more money going into Web video ads — or, more accurately, to the people who bring you Web video ads: Satellite broadcaster DirecTV has led a funding round for FreeWheel, the company that serves...
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Waiting for the Cord-Cutting Numbers to Show Up? Keep Waiting.
As long as we’re talking about cord-cutting, or the lack of it, today, here’s a new report that won’t make either the cable guys or Team Kill the Cable Guys happy: Pay TV subscriber ranks grew — but...
View ArticleTV Service Providers Held Talks With Aereo
Aereo Inc., the Web television startup backed by media mogul Barry Diller, has discussed partnerships with major pay-TV distributors and Internet service providers, including AT&T and Dish Network...
View ArticleDirecTV Consider Bid for Hulu
DirecTV is weighing a potential bid for Hulu, the latest company to show interest in the six-year-old video site, according to a person familiar with the matter. Hulu’s owners, including Walt Disney...
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Yahoo's Bid for Hulu in $600M to $800M Range -- Even as It Preps Other Big...
According to numerous sources close to the situation, Yahoo has bid from $600 million to $800 million for the premium video site Hulu. The reason for the wide range is due to the fact that the Silicon...
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AT&T Discusses Entering Into a Joint Bid for Hulu With Chernin Group
According to sources close to the telecommunications giant, AT&T is in discussions with the Chernin Group about mounting a joint bid to acquire the Hulu premium video site. It makes sense — in...
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Time Warner Cable Says It's Blocking Some Programmers from the Web -- But...
jnumber9 / Shutterstock.com Is Time Warner Cable blocking some TV programmers from selling their stuff to online video outlets? Yes we are, says Time Warner Cable. Here’s the company’s response to a...
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Apple TV Gets a Bit Bigger, With HBO and ESPN Apps (For Most, but Not All of...
Apple’s TV hobby just got a bit bigger: Apple has added five new content providers to its sort-of set-top box, notably Time Warner’s HBO Go and Disney’s WatchESPN. Also available as of today: Satellite...
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Silver Lake Abandons Hulu Purchase Effort, as Final Bidding Deadline Arrives...
According to sources close to the situation, Silver Lake will not make a follow-on bid to buy the Hulu premium video service. The giant private equity firm had been allied in the effort with the...
View ArticleTime Warner Cable's Bid for Hulu Is to Be Fourth Owner
According to numerous sources close to the situation, Time Warner Cable’s bid for Hulu is to be the fourth owner of the premium video service. The other bidders for the service — which has noisily been...
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Hulu's Final Bidders: DirecTV, AT&T + Chernin, Time Warner Cable
One down, two and a half to go. The ongoing Hulu sale saga, which has stretched on for a couple years, looks like it is finally winding down: The Web video site’s owners are now considering offers from...
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How Google or Apple Could Make Web TV a Reality: Spend Billions on the NFL
Ezra Shaw/Getty Images Sport Dear Tim, Larry, Steve and Jeff, Sorry to bother you during earnings season, but I wanted to lob in an idea from the cheap seats. I’ve been watching closely as all of you...
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CBS Has a Weapon It Won't Use in Its Time Warner Cable Fight
Pres Panayotov / Shutterstock.com You can only hear the same story a few times before it gets boring, so no need to go into the details of the new CBS-Time Warner Cable fight. You just need to know...
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"Cord Cutting Used to Be a Myth. It Isn't Anymore."
The pay TV business used to be a slow-to-no-growth business. No more: Now it’s shrinking. Here, via analyst Craig Moffett, are the most recent numbers for the big pay TV providers that just finished...
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Is Google Ready to Buy Its Way Into TV With an NFL Deal?
Here’s a fun combination to ponder: The world’s most powerful media company and America’s most popular sport. That could happen if Google buys the rights to the NFL’s Sunday Ticket package, the...
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Why Web TV Skeptic Mark Cuban Thinks Google Can Make the NFL Work on the Web
Ezra Shaw/Getty Images Sport If Google ends up getting the rights to stream NFL games over the Web, could the Web handle it? That is: Is America’s Internet infrastructure capable of letting millions of...
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The Disequilibrium of Power: How Retransmission Consent Went So Wrong, and...
This post ran previously on the BTIG Research blog (behind registration wall). In recent weeks, many investors and industry executives have openly questioned our positioning in the Time Warner Cable...
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How the Attack on NY Times and Twitter Domains Could Have Been Worse
Fair warning: The domain-hijacking attacks carried out by the Syrian Electronic Army against the New York Times and Twitter yesterday could have been worse, according to a security expert who has...
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The Digital TV Endgame: 10-Year Transition to All Things IP
While Internet TV is already technically feasible, commercial challenges are keeping it from becoming a mass-market reality. Services like Hulu, YouTube and Netflix are helping turn online video into a...
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Sports Programming Dominates the Living Room
Image copyright Jonathan GIn the era of digital media, content is king, and sports content is the king of kings. The sports industry reaches a larger market than music, movies and episodic television...
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Good News for the Cable Guys! Subscriber Numbers Dropped Again.
There’s not much need to debate cord-cutting anymore: The pay-TV industry is losing subscribers. But we still don’t have a handle on the rate of loss, nor the reason for that loss. If you’re in the...
View ArticleDirecTV Explores Online Video Service
DirecTV is exploring the idea of an online video service that would appeal to “price-sensitive” young people or other customers who have dropped their pay-TV service, the satellite TV firm said on...
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