NFL Sunday Ticket To Come To YouTube TV, YouTube Primetime Channels In 2023
The end of an era for DirecTV and the National Football League was made official Wednesday with the announcement that Google has won the right to exclusively distribute the NFL Sunday Ticket out-of-market pro football games package via its YouTube TV and YouTube Primetime Channels…
AT&T Video Services Get Rebadged `DirecTV Stream’ Thursday
AT&T TV streaming video services, including AT&T NOW, will be spun off and re-branded DirecTV Stream starting Aug. 26th as the company relaunches its restructured live subscription video services (excluding HBO Max) in tandem with new partner, private equity investor TPG Capital. The company has…
AT&T Reveals Pay-TV Subscriber Losses Slowed In Q2-2021
Due to release its Q2-2021 financial statement on July 22nd, media Goliath AT&T issued a preliminary SEC filing Friday showing the video subscriber count for the combined DirecTV, AT&T TV and AT&T U-verse divisions totaled 15.412 million, marking a 2.3 million subscriber loss year-on-year from…
HBO Max Reveals Ad-Supported Subscription Plan
Details of HBO Max’s promised ad-supported service tier were revealed Wednesday by WarnerMedia – which is owned by AT&T – listing a reduced $9.99 per month fee, amounting to a $5 per month savings off the regular $14.99 premium ad-free option. In the announcement, which…
AT&T, Discovery Unveil Plans To Merge Into Streaming Giant
The premium video streaming industry continued the trend toward consolidation Monday with word that AT&T and Discovery Communications have reach a definitive agreement to combine AT&T’s WarnerMedia with Discovery, to create an even larger streaming giant. Discovery’s CEO David Zaslav will become the head of…
AT&T Sells DirecTV Stake, Spins Out Pay-TV Services
AT&T officially affirmed last week that it will be selling a 30% stake in its DirecTV direct-to-home satellite operations to private equity investment firm TPG and will spin off the company into a new business. AT&T will continue to hold onto the remaining controlling stake…
Warner Bros. To Premiere 17 Movies In 4K On HBO Max
Warner Bros. Pictures Group will premiere its full slate of new movie titles for 2021 in 4K Ultra HD/HDR including an exclusive one-month home distribution window in the United States via its parent AT&T’s HBO Max premium streaming platform. Concurrent with that, the studio will…
HBO Max Comes To Fire TV Tuesday
AT&T’s popular premium streaming app HBO Max is adding Amazon’s Fire TV devices to the list of streaming media players and platforms capable of accessing the popular new service. Amazon and AT&T owned WarnerMedia recently worked out the agreement after a prolonged negotiation period. The…
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