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…
AT&T Raises First Year Fees For New DirecTV, AT&T TV Customers
Despite the growth of the cord-cutting trend across the country, AT&T revealed Monday in a somewhat low-key way that it has raised rates for new subscribers to its DirecTV satellite TV and AT&T TV (new premium live streaming) services by listing higher monthly rates on…
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…
HBO Max To Launch May 27th With Loaded Lineup
WarnerMedia formally announced Tuesday that its new premium subscription movie service HBO Max will launch on May 27th for $15 per month. Subscribers will have access to more than 10,000 hours of content from the vast Warner Bros., New Line and and HBO catalogs along…
Charter Subscribers To Get Special Access To New HBO MAX Service
The next major new streaming service–WarnerMedia’s HBO Max making its debut next month –is expanding its free offering to certain cable TV loyalists subscribed to Charter Communications. Under this week’s announced offer, Charter’s existing HBO subscribers, including subscribers taking its Spectrum Silver and Gold video…
Fox To Acquire Tubi TV Amidst Surge In Direct Streaming Use
In the throes of the sweeping Coronavirus pandemic, business activity is speeding up in the digital subscription video on demand (SVoD) and advertised video on demand (AVOD) spaces. Earlier this week Disney, following announcements that it was closing its theme parks temporarily to weather the…
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…
LRG: Percentage Of Pay-TV Homes Drops To 75%
The percentage of TV households that still subscribe to some form of pay-TV (cable, satellite, telco, or internet delivered) has declined to 75% nationwide from 87% in 2009, according to a new study published this week by the Leichtman Research Group (LRG). For the pleasure…
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