Latest articles by Daniel Frankel
The Connected TV Marketing Association says Tizen controls 13% of the 120 million smart TVs that will be sold globally this year vs. 7.8% for VIDAA
Annual late-spring pro-tennis tournament will shift from NBCUniversal to WBD linear channels and Max starting in 2025
Also in this week’s ‘Next Text,’ we watch the Clippers on TV for the first time ever in June, we try again to figure out how Shane Gillis has an audience … and that’s before Netflix’s ‘Hit Man’ sends us down a Richard Linklater rabbit hole
Averaging 10.99 million viewers, the audience delivery was down 5% from last season's Game 1 and was also the sixth worst for a Finals opener in the Nielsen era
His last taping as host of the mega-popular syndicated game show airs Friday
Telecom biz research guru (and Kenny Loggins fan) Bruce Leichtman will continue to offer his well regarded quarterly data to clients
While cable companies can offer a converged bundle to all their customers, wireless competitors don't come even close, notes Craig Moffett
After securing rights to 'Prime Monday Night Hockey' in Canada, Amazon partners with the league and 'Drive to Survive' producer Box To Box Films for new show
Touting what it believes will be a ‘simpler North American’ cable company, Montreal-based Cogeco combines commercial, operational and technical functions of its telecommunications businesses
WSJ says NBCU will get close to 100 games for $2.5 billion a season, with half of them streaming exclusively on Peacock
But J-Lo action film ‘Atlas’ stayed strong in week 2
Starting July 31, you will no longer be able to 'Netflix and chill' on Apple TV devices introduced before 2013
Latest bankruptcy court delay comes amid disclosure that Diamond's Bally Sports empire will lose another $50 million over the next few months ... and there's no end to the Comcast 'impasse' in sight
Former Microsoft and Xandr exec Sarah Harms, and Sal Candela, formerly with Spotify, will assume VP-level roles at Roku
Ad-free version is upped by a dollar to $17 a month
MiDiA also predicts that global SVOD revenues will expand by an average of 13.3% annually over the next eight years
Chicago Sports Network will reach ‘expanded Midwest footprint’ with ‘traditional cable providers, streaming services and be available via free, over-the-air broadcast’
Also in this week’s ‘Next Text,’ we look for good things that have come out of Kenosha, Wisconsin, and we stridently urge 57-year-old Mike Tyson to just retire already
Canada's Vecima Networks had rendered a $20 million ‘stalking horse’ bid back in early April after Casa declared bankruptcy
Touting European assets like the Olympic Games, the Warner Bros. Discovery CEO sounds like a man moving on from failed NBA TV rights negotiations
Sports-free virtual pay TV service is now streaming 70 channels for $28 a month, but it is tacking on AMC+ for free
Are legions of youthful consumers ready to sign up for the sports streaming joint venture, regardless of what its price ends up being? We guess it's ... possible ...
Only 28% of Max's customers have been subscribed to the service for at least six months, Antenna's latest report claims
