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The Cowgirl Channel

Cowgirl Channel Coming Out Of The Chute on Dish, Sling TV

Jon Lafayette published 2 February 23

New network from Rural Media Group launches February 5

Drew Groner DirecTV

DirecTV Names Drew Groner Senior VP, Head of Agency and Client Partnerships

Jon Lafayette published 2 February 23

Exec will lead addressable, digital and data enabled ad sales

Heather Olander

CW Taps Heather Olander As Head of Scripted Programming

Jon Lafayette published 2 February 23

Exec leaves NBCU to help overhaul network’s schedule

Netflix

Netflix Kicks Off Password-Sharing Crackdown With New Rules That Are Real Gentle and Easy to Follow ... Unless You Live in Costa Rica, Chile or Peru

Daniel Frankel published 2 February 23

The rules are pretty mellow Stateside right now, but judging by Netflix's radically different FAQs for its Latin American testing region, that will change real quick

R&B Group SWV

Bravo Rings Up Series Featuring R&B Groups SWV, Xscape

R. Thomas Umstead published 2 February 23

‘SWV & Escape: The Queens of R&B’ debuts March 5

'Raw Travel,' a weekly syndicated show, is hosted by Robert G. Rose.

‘Raw Travel’ to Provide Stations With Library Episodes for Seasons 11, 12

Paige Albiniak published 1 February 23

Weekly syndicated show ‘Raw Travel,’ is mostly going out of original production after its tenth season

Shift from the FAST lane comes as the needle begins to move for paid tiers
Peacock Plucks Its Free Tier From New Users Shift from the FAST lane comes as the needle begins to move for paid tiers
Convoluted, time-traveling fantasy drama has seen its 18-49 numbers drop 36% in season 2
Despite a Demo Rating That Seems to Have Suddenly Fallen Into a Sinkhole, NBC Renews 'La Brea' for Season 3 Convoluted, time-traveling fantasy drama has seen its 18-49 numbers drop 36% in season 2
Warner Bros. Discovery reveals its FAST strategy
Cancelled HBO Shows Licensed to Tubi and Roku Channel Warner Bros. Discovery reveals its FAST strategy
The league's economics can definitely withstand a bad inning wrought by the looming RSNs' bankruptcy crisis, but that won't stop baseball from trying to exploit the situation
Bally Sports Collapse Will Have MLB Teams 'Crying Poor,' League Observer Predicts The league's economics can definitely withstand a bad inning wrought by the looming RSNs' bankruptcy crisis, but that won't stop baseball from trying to exploit the situation
Why the investigation may open up an opportunity for the television industry to steal back some ad budget
Google’s Pain May Be TV’s Gain (Wolk) Why the investigation may open up an opportunity for the television industry to steal back some ad budget
The hit videogame adaptation signals a couple of bigger strategies that the broader video business will be watching closely
For Sony, the Success of ‘The Last of Us’ Won’t Be the Last of Its Cross-Platform, Arms Dealer Strategy The hit videogame adaptation signals a couple of bigger strategies that the broader video business will be watching closely

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MLB Network

Bad Timing: YouTube TV Blackout of MLB Network Compounds Baseball's TV Distribution Problems Entering Spring Training

By Daniel Frankel published 1 February 23

It also further disrupts a competitive virtual MVPD horse race that's now focused on live sports

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T-Mobile fixed wireless access

T-Mobile Adds 524K FWA Customers in Q4, But Growth Suddenly Slows

By Daniel Frankel published 1 February 23

Are the capabilities of 5G fixed wireless access hitting a ceiling in urban and suburban markets?

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'NCIS' on CBS

Sinclair, Nexstar, Gray, Scripps, Hearst, Cox Media CBS Affiliates Leave FuboTV (Updated)

By Jon Lafayette published 1 February 23

Paramount provides CBS national feed to vMVPD in blacked out markets

Broadcasting & Cable
Rep. Chris Stewart on KTVX Salt Lake City

Rep. Chris Stewart Proposes Social Media Ban

By John Eggerton published 1 February 23

Utah Republican’s new bill would prevent those 15 and under from accessing sites

Multichannel News
Cars lined up on an auto lot.

Roku Works With Cox Automotive To Show How Ads Drive Car Buyers

By Jon Lafayette published 1 February 23

Impact of streaming commercials on web browsing and sales to be measured

Broadcasting & Cable
Screenshot of FCC broadband map

Libraries Prep Paper on FCC Broadband Map Deficits

By John Eggerton published 1 February 23

Regulator points out that Congress limited maps to mass-market service

Multichannel News
NextGen TV

Boston Stations Start Transmitting Using NextGen TV Technology

By Jon Lafayette published 31 January 23

Transition to ATSC 3.0 in the tenth-largest market

Broadcasting & Cable

Business

MLB Network

Bad Timing: YouTube TV Blackout of MLB Network Compounds Baseball's TV Distribution Problems Entering Spring Training

By Daniel Frankel published 1 February 23

It also further disrupts a competitive virtual MVPD horse race that's now focused on live sports

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T-Mobile fixed wireless access

T-Mobile Adds 524K FWA Customers in Q4, But Growth Suddenly Slows

By Daniel Frankel published 1 February 23

Are the capabilities of 5G fixed wireless access hitting a ceiling in urban and suburban markets?

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis

Ron DeSantis Piles Onto DirecTV in Newsmax Kerfuffle ... Which Has Barely Been Covered by Fox News?

By Daniel Frankel published 31 January 23

The Florida culture warrior finally throws his outrage into the ring. But one voice from the Far Right has remained astonishingly quiet.

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NBA

Sling TV Adds ABC Stations in 8 Major Cities, Becomes the Go-To vMVPD for the NBA Postseason

By Daniel Frankel published 30 January 23

Sling Orange subscribers in New York, L.A., Chicago, Philly and San Francisco will pay more -- $45 a month now. But NBA post-season watchers won't have a cheaper pay TV option

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Charter Communications logo on a wall

Charter Skates on $7 Billion Civil Verdict in Murder of Texas Grandmother, Won't Pay a Dime

By Daniel Frankel published 30 January 23

Cable giant, armed with $6.1 billion of free cash flow to help it appeal forever, reduces the latest settlement offer to fit within its insurance coverage

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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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