4KUniverse Comes To Comcast Xfinity TV Subscribers
Comcast cable TV customers with a 4K or 8K UHD TV got some good news with world that the 4KUniverse channel is coming as a general entertainment streaming service to their service package. The 4K/HDR specialty channel is to launch across Comcast’s entertainment platforms later…
Study: Top Traditional Pay TV Subscriber Losses Slowed Slightly In 2021
The largest U.S. pay-TV services cumulatively dropped about 4,690,000 net video subscribers in 2021, compared to a loss of 4,870,000 in the year prior. That was the finding of a new study from the Leichtman Research Group, which also found that these top pay-TV providers,…
Comcast Hails Successful 10G DOCSIS 4.0 Modem Test
More good news surfaced Thursday for those waiting for greater cable speeds and bandwidth to better facilitate 8K video streaming (among other things) and beyond. Comcast, the cable TV and media giant, said it has successfully tested a prototype 10G modem capable of delivering multigigabit…
Comcast Leverages Hardware To Tighten Grip On Subscribers
Giant global media conglomerate Comcast has big plans to expand its reach into connected A/V hardware, as demonstrated by recent reports that both its Comcast cable properties in the U.S. and acquired Sky operations overseas will be marketing a new streaming adapter followed by lines…
Spectrum TV App Returns To Roku App Store
Roku and Spectrum TV ended a nine-month feud this week that removed the Spectrum TV cable service app from the Roku app store over the period. The new agreement means that subscribers to Charter Communications’ pay-TV services will once again find the provider’s app in…
LRG: Top Pay-TV Cos. Dropped 1.2M Subs In Q2 As Broadband Climbed
The attrition from traditional pay-TV services continued in the second quarter of 2021 even as some of those same services (cable and wireline telco providers) gained broadband subscribers, according to research released by the Leichtman Research Group (LRG) Tuesday. In a sign that the “cord-cutting”…
News 12 New York Comes To PlutoTV Ad-Supported Streaming App
News 12 New York, the daily locally produced regional news network serving the Metro New York City tri-state area, is now available to stream from the Pluto TV app on multiple streaming devices and smart TVs. News 12 New York is available for free across…
Altice Offers Free Android Box With 1Gbps Broadband-Only Service
Cable Multi System Operator Altice USA this week became the next traditional pay-TV provider to leverage its broadband-only service using the offer of a free OTT media streaming device to hold onto defecting cord cutters. Altice USA, which several years ago acquired the former Cablevision…
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