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Tara August

WBD Sports Talent SVP Tara August to Depart in February

R. Thomas Umstead published 27 January 23

Veteran WBD Sports SVP Global Communications Nate Smeltz to take on expanded role

Capitol Building

First House Communications Hearing Is for Birds

John Eggerton published 27 January 23

Satellites will be focus of Feb. 2 look at next-gen tech

HBO's 'Succession'

HBO Sets March Date for ‘Succession’ Return

R. Thomas Umstead published 27 January 23

Emmy-winning series launches fourth season March 26

ATSC 3.0

NAB to FCC: ATSC 3.0 Transition Is in Peril

John Eggerton published 27 January 23

Broadcasters say agency action is needed to goose move to next-generation transmission

Comcast truck in Lafayette, California

Fine With Flat? Comcast Lost 26K Broadband Subscribers in Q4 ... Why Investors Are OK With That

Daniel Frankel published 26 January 23

For the first time ever, Comcast reported a quarterly customer loss for its core wireline connectivity business. Wall Street's surprising reaction? Meh

Communist Party

Newsmax IDs Its List of America's 23 'Liberal News Networks' -- Topped by ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN ... and The Weather Channel?

Daniel Frankel published 26 January 23

As it rhetorically battles DirecTV in what has somehow become the Carriage War of the Century, Newsmax calls out the conservative bonafides of America's mainstream TV networks

Restructuring of Sinclair Broadcast's floundering Diamond Sports Group will see its largest creditors become owners ... and the RSNs' pro team partners bracing for a huge financial hit
It's On: Bally Sports RSNs Headed for Bankruptcy Restructuring of Sinclair Broadcast's floundering Diamond Sports Group will see its largest creditors become owners ... and the RSNs' pro team partners bracing for a huge financial hit
The right wing news channel had been steadily losing pay TV distribution. But now it's armed with an activist Republican House and a political environment in which not even candy-themed cartoon characters are safe
With DirecTV, Newsmax Seizes Political Opportunity to Try to Improve Its Pay TV Economics The right wing news channel had been steadily losing pay TV distribution. But now it's armed with an activist Republican House and a political environment in which not even candy-themed cartoon characters are safe
The No. 1 pay TV operator in the U.S. is now in free fall
Comcast Cord-Cutting Accelerated to Record High 11.2% in 2022 The No. 1 pay TV operator in the U.S. is now in free fall
The scandal has already cost the troubled regional sports network its president and CFO
Comcast Seeks $50 Million From Pac-12 Networks Following Years of Overpayments The scandal has already cost the troubled regional sports network its president and CFO
And season 3 of Mexican local-language series 'La Reina del Sur' finds its legs in week 3
'Ginny & Georgia' Leads Streaming for Third Consecutive Week - Netflix Weekly Rankings for Jan. 16-22 And season 3 of Mexican local-language series 'La Reina del Sur' finds its legs in week 3
Big deal finally emerges from previously ice-cold Sundance festival market
Netflix Pays $20 Million for Workplace Drama ‘Fair Play’ at Sundance Big deal finally emerges from previously ice-cold Sundance festival market

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Breezeline Stream TV

Breezeline Expands Cloud-Based 'Stream TV' Service to Ohio

By Daniel Frankel published 26 January 23

Canadian owned cable TV service, formally known as Atlantic Broadband, launched its TiVo-powered IPTV platform last year

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Netflix original series 'Stranger Things'

Netflix’s ‘Stranger Things’ Was Most-Streamed Show in 2022

By Jon Lafayette published 26 January 23

Americans streamed 19.4 million years of content, up 27%, Nielsen says

Broadcasting & Cable
Comcast office space with logo

Peacock Losses, Hurricane Ian Hurt Comcast Q4 Earnings

By Jon Lafayette published 26 January 23

Video customers drop by 440,000

Broadcasting & Cable
Vizio Recent Apps

Vizio Adds Features To Help Viewers Find Streaming Content

By Jon Lafayette published 26 January 23

New features also available on redesigned mobile app

Broadcasting & Cable
FCC shield on phone

FCC Seeks Stories About Broadband Access Discrimination

By John Eggerton published 25 January 23

Will use as it crafts congressionally-mandated rules

Multichannel News
Warner Bros. Discovery upfront

Warner Bros. Discovery Returns To MSG Theater for Upfront

By Jon Lafayette published 25 January 23

Presentation set for May 17

Broadcasting & Cable
YouTube TV

Scripps Networks Get Carriage on Google, YouTube Platforms

By Jon Lafayette published 25 January 23

Scripps News, Ion, Bounce launch on YouTube TV; FAST channels on deck

Broadcasting & Cable

Business

Verizon Fixed Wireless Access

Verizon Reports Its Biggest FWA Growth Yet With 379K Customer Adds in Q4

By Daniel Frankel published 24 January 23

Verizon's nascent fixed wireless access service added nearly 1.2 million subscribers in 2022

Multichannel News
Netflix executives Greg Peters, Reed Hastings and Ted Sarandos

Netflix Aims For a Quarter of U.S. TV Viewing

By Daniel Frankel published 23 January 23

A 'Squid Game'-like ratings phenomena could be 'something that happens literally every week,' new Co-CEO Greg Peters says

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Sundance Film Festival 2023

At Ice-Cold Sundance, ‘Netflix And Chill’ Takes on a New Meaning for the Now Tight-Belted Streaming Companies (Bloom)

By David Bloom published 22 January 23

The competitive heat and underlying calculus that justified splashing cash on random festival darlings like 'CODA' the past few years has seemingly evaporated

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Logo of cable operator Mediacom Communications on a cellphone screen

Fifth-Largest U.S. MSO Trademarks ‘Mediacom Mobile’ as ‘Junior Cable’ Begins MVNO Push

By Daniel Frankel published 20 January 23

Tier 2 and 3 cable operators get ready to counter FWA by following Comcast and Charter into the wireless business

Multichannel News
Spencer Neumann

Netflix CFO Expects Company’s Ad Business To Be Larger Than Hulu’s

By Jon Lafayette published 20 January 23

Ads could be 10% of revenue, or $3 billion, over time, Spencer Neumann says

Broadcasting & Cable

Technology

Breezeline Stream TV

Breezeline Expands Cloud-Based 'Stream TV' Service to Ohio

By Daniel Frankel published 26 January 23

Canadian owned cable TV service, formally known as Atlantic Broadband, launched its TiVo-powered IPTV platform last year

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Samsung Ads

Samsung Has Talked to TCL About Licensing FAST 'TV Plus' for Third-Party Smart TVs (Report)

By Daniel Frankel published 20 January 23

Move follows Samsung's October announcement that it will license TVOS Tizen to third-party TV makers

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Craig Cowden

Craig Cowden, Top Charter Wireless Tech Exec, Sets Exit Plan

By Daniel Frankel published 13 January 23

Cowden, who has been instrumental in the engineering designs of Spectrum Mobile and Charter's CBRS strategy, will depart at the end of March

Multichannel News
Sharp smart TV based on the Roku OLED Reference Design

Sharp Plans to Enter U.S. Smart TV Market With New Sets Based on Roku's New 'OLED Reference Design'

By Daniel Frankel published 12 January 23

Japanese company is now majority owned by Chinese manufacturing giant Foxconn

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Sling TV logo and remote

Sling TV Set to Roll Out User Profiles, Up Its Overall Pace of Innovation

By Daniel Frankel published 10 January 23

Sling chief Gary Schanman says a lot of changes to the vMVPD are coming

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