RT America To Cease Operations In Wake Of Crisis In Ukraine
Faced with cascading removals of Russian Today channels from distribution services and platforms around the world in the wake of the crisis in Ukraine, RT America, the U.S.-facing news/opinion channel backed with Russian-government funding, announced it will cease operations and lay off staff in coming…
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…
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…
Report: AT&T Trying To Sell Legacy Pay-TV Services
The future status of the DirecTV satellite TV and U-verse telco-TV services could be changing again following reports that AT&T is talking to private equity firms to sell portions of certain legacy pay-TV assets. A report by CNBC citing sources familiar with negotiations Tuesday said…
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…
DirecTV Offers Free Year Of HBO Max To Certain New Satellite Subscribers
AT&T continues to leverage the May 27th launch of its HBO Max premium streaming services to entice subscribers to its struggling DirecTV satellite-based subscription TV service. Most recently, the company announced it is offering HBO Max free for one year to new subscribers to the…
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…
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…
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