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Family watching a smart TV

CIMM Study Looks For Smarter Ways To Use Smart TV Viewing Data

Jon Lafayette published 30 March 23

Caroline Homer to lead initiative

Radford Reborns Speedvision

Retooled Speedvision Shifts Into Fast Lane With Amazon’s Freevee

Jon Lafayette published 30 March 23

Relaunched network adds distribution on 13th streaming platform

AMC Networks Vizio

Vizio Adds 9 Free Streaming Channels From AMC Networks

Jon Lafayette published 30 March 23

AMC Plus app available on Vizio home page

San Francisco ATSC 3.0

Tech-Heavy San Francisco Market Gets NextGen TV Broadcasts

Jon Lafayette published 30 March 23

KRON converts signal to ATSC 3.0

Peyton Elizabeth Lee in Disney Channel's 'Prom Pact'

‘Prom Pact’ Targets Teens, With Lots of ‘80s References For Their Parents

Michael Malone published 30 March 23

Julie Bowen’s Disney movie tips the cap to ‘Sixteen Candles’, ‘Ghostbusters’, ‘Say Anything’

Roku headquarters in San Jose, Calif.

Roku Plans 200 Layoffs In New Cost-Cutting Move

Jon Lafayette published 30 March 23

Company will take $30-35 million charge against earnings

NFL forms a joint venture with private equity firm to stream games in public establishments, with other live events potentially added down the road
NFL Flies With RedBird Capital to Put ‘Sunday Ticket’ in Bars and Restaurants; DirecTV Says It’s Still in Play NFL forms a joint venture with private equity firm to stream games in public establishments, with other live events potentially added down the road
Mountain View-based WaveOne makes a technology that focuses limited bandwidth resources on things like faces rather than backdrops
Apple Buys AI Video Compression Tech Company, Could Help It Make Streaming Cheaper and Better Mountain View-based WaveOne makes a technology that focuses limited bandwidth resources on things like faces rather than backdrops
Spy thriller racks up nearly 170 million viewing hours in its first four days on Netflix
Shawn Ryan's 'The Night Agent' Is Streaming's Biggest New Show of 2023 So Far -- Netflix Weekly Rankings for March 20-26 Spy thriller racks up nearly 170 million viewing hours in its first four days on Netflix
The No. 1 U.S. broadband supplier said it took 21.2 kilowatt-hours of juice to deliver each terabyte of data in 2019. It got that down to 13.6 kWh/TB in 2022
Comcast Says Its Network Is 36% More Energy Efficient Than It Was in 2019 The No. 1 U.S. broadband supplier said it took 21.2 kilowatt-hours of juice to deliver each terabyte of data in 2019. It got that down to 13.6 kWh/TB in 2022
Bundled telecom services aren't going away, and this the way they'll probably look moving forward
The Future of the Internet-TV Bundle? Frontier Integrates YouTube TV Into a Single Unified Bill Bundled telecom services aren't going away, and this the way they'll probably look moving forward
Relax, he says, ‘You're going to enjoy things written by humans for a long time’
Aaron Sorkin on AI, Streaming … and The Big Strike (Bloom) Relax, he says, ‘You're going to enjoy things written by humans for a long time’

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A sceen from Vizio's NewFront presentation

YouTube, Vizio, Amazon, Peacock, Roku, TikTok and Meta Headline NewFronts

By Jon Lafayette published 30 March 23

Brief presentations featured Wednesday on IAB Main Stage

Broadcasting & Cable
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav

Warner Bros. Discovery Chief David Zaslav's Pay Dropped to Just $39.3 Million in 2022

By Daniel Frankel published 30 March 23

Downsized figure comes after stock options pushed the CEO's compensation to over $246 million in 2021

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Evolution Digital

Evolution Digital to Integrate OpenSync Wi-Fi Management Into Android TV Set-tops, Seeks to Consolidate Operator CPE

By Daniel Frankel published 29 March 23

Operators will be able to include Wi-Fi extender capabilities on the Evo Force 1 set-top's chipset

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California Opening Day 2023 on NBCUniversal Local's FAST channels

NBCUniversal’s California Stations Offer MLB Special on FAST Channels

By Michael Malone published 29 March 23

Noticias Telemundo California, NBC Los Angeles News and NBC San Diego News produce ‘California Opening Day 2023’

Broadcasting & Cable
YES Network

Yankees RSN YES Network Officially Goes DTC

By Daniel Frankel published 29 March 23

The regional sports network home of the Yankees and Nets can now be streamed for as little as $16.66 a month sans a pay TV subscription

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Ike Perlmutter

Disney Lays Off Marvel Entertainment Chairman Ike Perlmutter

By Daniel Frankel published 29 March 23

Six months ago, Perlmutter led an unsuccessful effort to install activist investor Nelson Peltz on the Disney board. On Wednesday, his division was subsumed by Disney

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Thursday Night Football Amazon Prime Video

NFL Owners Table Plan To Flex Thursday Night Games for Amazon

By Jon Lafayette published 29 March 23

Issue will be discussed further in May

Broadcasting & Cable

Business

Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav

Warner Bros. Discovery Chief David Zaslav's Pay Dropped to Just $39.3 Million in 2022

By Daniel Frankel published 30 March 23

Downsized figure comes after stock options pushed the CEO's compensation to over $246 million in 2021

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YES Network

Yankees RSN YES Network Officially Goes DTC

By Daniel Frankel published 29 March 23

The regional sports network home of the Yankees and Nets can now be streamed for as little as $16.66 a month sans a pay TV subscription

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Ike Perlmutter

Disney Lays Off Marvel Entertainment Chairman Ike Perlmutter

By Daniel Frankel published 29 March 23

Six months ago, Perlmutter led an unsuccessful effort to install activist investor Nelson Peltz on the Disney board. On Wednesday, his division was subsumed by Disney

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Charter Communications logo on a wall

Charter Buys Maine’s Bee Line Cable

By Daniel Frankel published 28 March 23

Acquisition of Central Maine operator accompanies an $82 million investment to compete more forcefully against fiber rivals in the region

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Bob Chapek

Bob Chapek’s Metaverse Unit Gets Whacked Amid Disney’s Mega-Cuts

By Daniel Frankel published 28 March 23

The ‘Next Generation Storytelling and Consumer Experiences’ division was one of the former Disney CEO’s pet projects

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Technology

Evolution Digital

Evolution Digital to Integrate OpenSync Wi-Fi Management Into Android TV Set-tops, Seeks to Consolidate Operator CPE

By Daniel Frankel published 29 March 23

Operators will be able to include Wi-Fi extender capabilities on the Evo Force 1 set-top's chipset

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RDK

RDK Integrates OpenSync for Managed Wi-Fi

By Daniel Frankel published 29 March 23

Open-sourced framework for managed Wi-Fi software was originally developed by Plume, a tech company backed by RDK principal Comcast

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MuxIP

MuxIP’s FASTHub Converts Broadcast Channels Into FASTs

By Jon Lafayette published 27 March 23

Cloud-based software creates single workflow

Broadcasting & Cable
Amazon Fire TV

Amazon Expands Its Own Fire TV Smart TV Lineup, Targets U.K., Germany, Mexico

By Daniel Frankel published 22 March 23

Amazon also says that it has sold 200 million Fire TV devices globally

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Dish Network Hopper

Dish Gets Judge to Toss Jury's $469 Million Patent Verdict

By Daniel Frankel published 21 March 23

Decision comes just 11 days after a Salt Lake City jury awarded parental-control tech maker ClearPlay nearly half a billion dollars over two technologies used in Dish's AutoHop commercial-skipping feature

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