Daniel Frankel
Daniel Frankel is the managing editor of Next TV, an internet publishing vertical focused on the business of video streaming. A Los Angeles-based writer and editor who has covered the media and technology industries for more than two decades, Daniel has worked on staff for publications including E! Online, Electronic Media, Mediaweek, Variety, paidContent and GigaOm. You can start living a healthier life with greater wealth and prosperity by following Daniel on Twitter today!
Latest articles by Daniel Frankel
Happy Holidays? Spotify Conducts TMT's Biggest Layoff of 2023 Despite 11% Q3 Revenue Grow
By Daniel Frankel published
Ho, ho ho, the stock is at a 12-month high, and the music streaming service just added 23 million subscribers, but 17% of the its workforce, over 1,500 employees, just lost their jobs anyway
Comcast Cashes Disney’s $8.61 Billion Check for Hulu
By Daniel Frankel published
The down payment will help offset the $2.8 billion Comcast president Mike Cavanagh said will be lost on streaming this year
Verizon To Bundle Ad-Supported Netflix and Max for $10 a Month
By Daniel Frankel published
Unlimited wireless promotion trims 40% off the retail price for both ad-subsidized streaming services
One of These Things Is Not Like the Other: Was Florida State's Perfect 13-0 Record Sacked By the SEC's $3 Billion TV Deal With Disney/ESPN?
By Daniel Frankel, David Bloom published
In our latest 'Next Text,' we ponder college football's playoff travesty, retrans' ratcheted-up rhetoric, Disney's Culture War floggings and a bunch of other stuff that's unfair and just not right
DirecTV’s Rob Thun Tells Tegna to Get Direct With Either the Networks or Pay TV Customers as the Latest Retrans Dispute Devolves Into Yet Another Blackout
By Daniel Frankel published
DirecTV’s top programming executive says he‘s ‘dead serious’ this time about no longer getting caught in the middle of a dialectic that’s seen retrans fees spike 270% since 2015. And he has a Charter-esque proposal Tegna’s probably not going to like
Verizon Appears to Have Rebranded Its ‘Stream TV’ Android TV-Based Gadget as Fios TV+, Made It the Default Set-Top For New Fios Video Customers
By Daniel Frankel published
Verizon's dwindling legion of new Fios linear video users can watch their pay TV subscription and streaming services all on one Android TV-based device
Fixed Wireless Ad Wars Heat Up: Comcast and Charter Told to Take Down or Modify Commercials Following Complaints
By Daniel Frankel published
The National Advertising Division once again takes cable companies to task for their FWA-targeted TV spots
Casa Systems’ New CEO, Michael Glickman, on Virtualization, Execution … and Beating Harmonic
By Daniel Frankel published
The 22-year Cisco veteran opens up on the challenges of taking over a tech company from its retired founder during a rough stretch of the business cycle
Mature Business? Paramount Plus Offers 10% Discount to AARP Members
By Daniel Frankel published
Discounts are in addition to the aggressive 'Black Friday’ discounts Paramount is currently offering
Michigan-Ohio State Game Averages Over 19 Million Viewers, Scores College Football’s Biggest Regular-Season Audience in 12 Years
By Daniel Frankel published
Driven largely by out-of-home viewing, Fox’s ‘Big Noon Saturday’ coverage produced college football's largest viewership since Nos. 1 and 2 LSU and Alabama faced off back in 2011
It Works! NBA In-Season Tournament Generates 20% November Ratings Spike for ESPN
By Daniel Frankel published
Say what you will about the funny-painted playing floors and the convoluted format, but the league's new regular season overlay has created a little ball movement
See Change: The Smart TV OS Surpasses the Pay TV Set-Top as the No. 1 Way U.S. Consumers Watch the Tube (Chart of the Day)
By Daniel Frankel published
Viewers now tune into Roku, Fire TV, Google TV or whatever OS is powering their set first, according to Hub Entertainment Research
Call It a Comeback: Roku Reaches 19-Month High on Wall Street After Yet Another Upgrade
By Daniel Frankel published
Shares are back above $100 for the first time since April 2022 after Cannonball Research analyst Vasily Karasyov bumped the streaming company to 'buy'
Netflix Battles Rookie Series Creator in Arbitration After He Blows $55 Million on Fancy Cars, a Watch and Crypto
By Daniel Frankel published
Netflix commissioned Carl Erik Rinsch, director of a single box-office bomb, to create a sci-fi series called 'Conquest.' That was a mistake
Forget Amazon’s $100 Million Black Friday NFL Rout, It’s NBC That Paid Too Much for the Real Turkey Bowl
By Daniel Frankel, David Bloom published
NBC is paying $350 million for primetime Big Ten games this season. And have you seen the audience numbers?
DirecTV and Tegna Queue Up Another Blackout Do-Si-Do
By Daniel Frankel published
Broadcaster started warning its viewers Saturday about an impasse that could impact 64 stations in 51 U.S. markets
WGA Threatens to Sue Amazon Studios for Failing to Restart Shows, Including Marvel’s ’Silk: Spider Society’: Report
By Daniel Frankel published
Writers Guild of America sends stern letter to Amazon telling the streaming company it's in violation of the just-carved-out agreement that ended the big strike, ‘The Ankler’ reports
CommScope Tries To Race Past Bankruptcy Court
By Daniel Frankel published
But the leading telecom tech vendor saw shares fall again Tuesday as it juggles more than $9 billion of debt
Linda Yaccarino Doubles Down at Twitter, Gets Her Son Involved
By Daniel Frankel published
Resisting pleas from media business peers to get out of X while the gettin’ is good, she reportedly enlists her son, Matt Madrazo, to sell political advertising
NBC Moves on Quickly From Strikes, Sets Midseason Schedule Full of Dick Wolf Procedurals and Other Scripted Shows
By Daniel Frankel published
With the entire 'Chicago' and 'Law & Order' universes returning to fill its Wednesday and Thursday primetime schedules by mid-January, no broadcaster is recovering faster than NBC from the twin labor stoppages
The Golden Globes Spin on Amid 'Confusing Ownership Do-Si-Do'
By Daniel Frankel, David Bloom published
Our latest ‘Next Text’ explores Hollywood’s confounding FYC monopoly … and the end of ‘The Awards Industrial Complex’
Nexstar, Sinclair and Other Big Station Groups Face Major Exposure as Dwindling U.S. Pay TV Biz Is Increasingly vMVPD-Controlled
By Daniel Frankel published
Virtual pay TV companies now control more than 20% of U.S. pay TV. And since they're not beholden to traditional broadcast retransmission rules, that's bad news for station groups
Paramount Plus Has Cut Its Movie Catalog Back By 64%
By Daniel Frankel published
Reelgood audit shows Paramount SVOD had 830 movie titles as of mid-October, fewer than half as many as it had a year prior