HBO SIGNS WITH AT&T FOR STREAMING VIDEO SERVICE AT&T SEES A NEED Since buying DirecTV last March, AT&T has moved aggressively into internet video streaming. This was partially a response to the success of Dish Network’s Sling TV platform. AT&T…Continue Reading →
BLUE FROM SLING TV Sling TV, Dish Network’s internet video streaming platform. continues to innovate. Last Thursday, the company said that it has finished beta testing of Sling Blue, its multiple stream service. It will now offer the multi-stream service for monthly…Continue Reading →
MOBILE VIDEO STREAMING FROM AT&T Millennials, much more than older consumers, tend to be ‘cord-cutters’. They often scorn fixed home cable or satellite TV. They tend to prefer streaming internet video to mobile devices, and can be unreceptive to pitches…Continue Reading →
UNLIMITED DATA FROM AT&T Competition in the home internet market intensifies almost every passing month. AT&T is one of the first major internet service providers promising to lift data caps for certain subscribers. The telecom giant said it will launch…Continue Reading →
VIDEO STREAMING FROM AT&T When AT&T bought DirecTV a few months ago, it promised big changes in the way DirecTV programming is packaged and marketed. Early in March, the telecom giant revealed important details. In the fourth quarter of this…Continue Reading →
NETFLIX: LOOK OUT FOR AT&T AT&T, the second-largest wireless service in America, wants to be involved in virtually every aspect of your life. It already handles pay TV, wireless phone and data, wired internet, and home automation services. It will…Continue Reading →
CHRISTMAS WITH BUNDLE DEALS You may be asking, “What can Bundle Deals do for my Christmas celebration?” In fact, we can do a great deal. Large screen TV sets, gaming consoles, smart phones, and Android and iOS tablets are popular…Continue Reading →
If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. This seems to be the thinking of Comcast, the second-largest pay TV provider in the U.S., now that AT&T bought DirecTV. Tired of seeing its customers and advertising revenue poached by internet video upstarts such as Facebook and YouTube,…Continue Reading →
FCC HEAD OKAYS AT&T/DTV DEAL Very likely, this will be the biggest media merger in history. Tom Wheeler, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, has confirmed reports that he sent a letter to the other commissioners recommending approval of…Continue Reading →
COMCAST GIVES UP ON TWC MERGER It was to have been the biggest media merger of all time. Had it gone into effect, the deal would have combined the largest and second-largest cable TV and internet systems in the United…Continue Reading →