BOOMERANG SVOD LIVE ON TURNER The SVOD Service Goes Live Do you or your children like classic cartoons? Then Boomerang may be the channel for you. The network’s SVOD service went live last Tuesday. Turner and Warner Brothers, subsidiaries of Time…Continue Reading →
YEAR OF HBO FREE FROM AT&T HBO’s prospective new owner is being generous with the premium movie channel package. AT&T, aggressively marketing DirecTV Now, its new internet video streaming platform, is offering an entire year of HBO to new customers….Continue Reading →
COMCAST REGIONAL SPORTS ON SLING TV To fend off a competitive threat from YouTube’s move into live TV, Sling TV saw the need to add value to its own video service. Last Thursday, Dish Network’s semi-independent streaming video platform announced…Continue Reading →
CONTENT IS KEY TO OUR FUTURE SUCCESS: AT&T Does a TV system need its own programming to compete successfully? AT&T evidently thinks so. John Stankey, the CEO of the AT&T Entertainment Group, says it’s not enough to own the infrastructure…Continue Reading →
TIME WARNER BOUGHT BY AT&T Large corporations seldom make such important decisions quickly. They announce potential mergers and buyouts months in advance. Last week, though, we witnessed a rare exception. Late in the week, the TV industry press was abuzz…Continue Reading →
SPECTRUM GUIDE BY CHARTER Charter Communications believes in its Spectrum Guide. The cable system operator is expanding the reach of the cloud-based TV user interface. On Thursday, April 28, Charter announced that it now offers the interface to customers in…Continue Reading →
CHARTER BUYS TWC & BRIGHT HOUSE Consolidation in the cable TV and internet industries is not over. On Tuesday, May 26, Charter Communications announced that Time Warner Cable had accepted its buyout offer, pending approval by the FCC and the…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 →
Internet: DSL vs Cable vs Fiber When we look for internet access, most of us don’t pay much attention to the differences between DSL, traditional cable, and fiber-optic cable. We just want something that works. While all three can…Continue Reading →