COVID-19 Pushes Streaming Businesses Over The Top
The COVID-19 crisis is intensifying the divide in consumer demand between streaming platforms and traditional pay-TV operations as illustrated by recent diverging reports on the first half performances of over-the-top content provider Netflix, and the second quarter financial of pay-TV conglomerate AT&T. This week, AT&T…
Roku: Return Of Live Sports Unlikely To Help Pay-TV Much
Roku, a leading supplier of streaming video devices and services, released Tuesday the findings of a cord cutting survey it commissioned of U.S. consumers during the COVID-19 pandemic showing traditional pay-TV services are unlikely to see many cord cutters returning as live sporting events resume….
Parks Study: COVID-19 Good For Smart TV Viewership
More than 6 million U.S. broadband households cut the cord on traditional pay-TV service between the first quarter of 2019 and the first quarter of Q1 2020, a study disclosed by Parks Associates revealed this week. The report said those who gave up their traditional…
Roku Offers Father’s Day Specials On Streamers, Soundbars, Channels
Anyone interested in helping Dad upgrade his smart TV system during the COVID-19 crisis might be please to find out that Roku is offering a variety of limited time special deals on Roku streaming adapters, soundbars, and wireless speakers for Father’s Day. As part of…
Traditional Pay-TV Subscriptions Continued To Decline In Q1
Despite the surge in viewership of online streaming content during the COVID-19 sheltering period, subscribers to traditional pay-TV services like cable, satellite and telco-TV continue to dwindle at an alarming rate. The top 10 U.S. pay-TV service providers hemorrhaged a cumulative 2.33 million subscribers during…
Roku Offers Discounts On Streamers For Mothers’ Day
COVID-19 crisis or not, Mother’s Day is almost here and Roku is running a few offers to help mom tune into some of the thousands of movies and TV programs available on the the internet. Roku said this week it is providing discounts on some…
Report: U.S. Pay-TV Services Lost 4.9M Subscribers In 2019
The cord-cutting revolution saw a veritable blood bath for traditional pay-TV services over the course of 2019, as an estimated 4.915 million customers dropped their providers, according to data released this week by the Leichtman Research Group. The year-end U.S. pay-TV market research report from…
‘TiVo Stream 4K’ Adapter To Take On Roku, Apple TV Etc.
Among the slew of new video products and service announcements at CES 2020 was word that DVR-pioneer TiVo was getting into the affordably priced streaming media player game by introducing the TiVo Stream 4K, an Android TV-powered dongle that easily connects to a TV’s HDMI…
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