Roku Passed 50 Million User Milestone In 2020
Roku finished 2020 having surpassed a user milestone, with 51.2 million total active accounts, up by some 14 million users over the course of the pandemic-strained year, the company announced Wednesday. Cumulatively, Roku users enjoyed 17 billion hours of streaming content in the fourth quarter…
Testing Begins For Sending NextGen TV Channels Over Cable Systems
Good news for those who can’t (or won’t) use over-the-air TV antennas and aren’t ready to cut the cord — tests have begun for transmitting NextGen TV (ATSC 3.0) signals over cable TV platforms. Broadcasters supporting the ATSC 3.0 Phoenix, Arizona Model Market project for…
`Bloomberg Quicktake’ App Comes To Smart TVs
Cord-cutters with smart TVs or media streaming players are about to get a new news app and streaming channel for live and on-demand stories delivered with a business spin. Beginning at 9 am EST tomorrow (November 9th), Bloomberg Media will launch its streaming news network,…
Free ABC News App Comes To Samsung TVs, Galaxy Devices
Samsung has added the ABC News App to its library of free ad-supported over-the-top news programming available through the Samsung TV Plus section available on Samsung Tizen-based smart TVs since 2016. Samsung said the ABC News App will enable cord-cutting Samsung smart TV owners to…
Pay-TV’s Top 10 Watched More Subscribers Bolt In Q2
After losing 1.52 million more subscribers in the second quarter of 2020, the top 10 U.S. pay-TV service providers now collectively serve 73.14 million television customers covering 60% of U.S. homes, The update comes by way of the informitv Multiscreen Index as reported this week…
FuboTV Files IPO Revealing Disney As A Major Stakeholder
Cord-cutters trying to escape the escalating price of traditional cable and satellite TV services are quickly finding prices of live over-the-top (OTT) streaming services are getting more and more expensive as well. The latest revelation came to light this week through an IPO filing with…
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….
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