Many cable subscribers know that one of the most frustrating experiences is flipping on your TV and seeing that one of your favorite channels is no longer there because your cable provider hasn't come to an agreement with the network. Every few years, when contracts...
A decade ago, when we still lived in the last throes of an analog world, the default path to a career in Hollywood was deceptively simple: Move to Los Angeles, get an entry-level job on the periphery of what you ultimately want to do, hone...
Are you a Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH ) subscriber? If so, you may have recently noticed an ominous warning while watching CBS (NYSE: CBS ) : "Attention, Dish customers, you could soon lose CBS." The warning, alerting viewers they risk losing on CBS' host of networks and...
Pluto TV, a startup whose service aggregates Internet video in a TV-like grid, has closed $13 million in Series A funding led by U.S. Venture Partners, with participation from UTA as well as existing investors Sky, Chicago Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital and Luminari Capital. The...
Yesterday, President Obama took a strong position on net neutrality by supporting calls to regulate the internet more like a utility. Less than 24 hours later, FCC head Tom Wheeler is said to have indicated that he will break from the president's proposed plan, moving...
It’s getting harder and harder to claim that cord-cutting in the US is just a myth. In the third quarter, the top pay-TV providers—which account for 95% of the market—lost about 150,000 video subscribers, compared with just 25,000 in the same quarter last year, according to Leichtman...
My initial reaction to President Obama’s call, on Monday, for the Federal Communications Commission to categorize Internet service providers (I.S.P.s) as public utilities, akin to suppliers of power and water, was that it can’t be all bad. Maybe I’m biased, but any proposal that is...
When the cost of the materials that go into a product become more expensive, so does the product itself. Product makers are generally businesses, designed to make money, so instead of take the hit, they pass costs on to their customers instead. Cable TV works...
Nielsen will begin measuring viewership for programming streamed via digital services such as Netflix and Amazon in December, according to The Wall Street Journal. The report, which cited client documents reviewed by the financial news service, claims that by analyzing the audio from digital over-the-top...
On Thursday, Sony announced its own internally developed online streaming video service, dubbed PlayStation Vue, set to launch in a limited beta this month. The announcement outlined many of the subscription service's early details, including a focus on network television, roughly 75 participating stations, and, perhaps most notably,...