DirecTV Customers To Get NFL Network, RedZone Services Under New Deal
DirecTV has lost its NFL Sunday Ticket exclusive out-of-market NFL game package to YouTube, but it will continue to offer pro-football fans the popular RedZone and NFL Network channels, under an expanded agreement with NFL Media announced this week. With the new deal, RedZone, which…
Limited Time Offer Lets New DirecTV Stream Customers Jump The Line For A Free Telly TV
DirecTV posted an announcement on its web site Friday that it has reached a deal with startup free-TV supplier Telly giving new subscribers to the DirecTV Stream live OTT service priority access to one of the first 4K Dual-Screen LCD smart TVs Telly will be…
YouTube Announces Pricing On 2023 NFL Sunday Ticket Packages
Hey NFL Sunday Ticket fans — Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. YouTube, the new distributor of the NFL Sunday Ticket out-of-market football game package for 2023, formally announced its pricing terms, Tuesday, including a savings for those who act quickly. Spoiler…
NFL Sunday Ticket To Come To YouTube TV, YouTube Primetime Channels In 2023
The end of an era for DirecTV and the National Football League was made official Wednesday with the announcement that Google has won the right to exclusively distribute the NFL Sunday Ticket out-of-market pro football games package via its YouTube TV and YouTube Primetime Channels…
Ergen: DISH, DirecTV Merger Talk Would Be More Likely After Election Day
The long-proposed merger between the country’s two direct-to-home satellite TV services could be moving closer to reality, if recent comments by DISH Network chairman Charlie Ergen prove to be more than wishful thinking. Ergen, speaking to analysts following the company’s Q3 earnings report Wednesday, said…
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…
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