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
Chicken Soup For the Soul Receives Delisting Notification From Nasdaq
By Daniel Frankel published
Company’s stock has traded below $1 a share since mid-August
Facebook Tanked Its 'Watch' Streaming Biz to Keep Netflix Spending Hundreds of Millions of Dollars on Ads, Class-Action Antitrust Suit Reveals
By Daniel Frankel published
With Netflix co-founder and former CEO Reed Hastings on the Facebook board, the streaming giant even got access to the private messages of the social network's users, plaintiffs say
Wait, vMVPDs Are Real, Profitable Businesses, After All?
By Daniel Frankel, David Bloom published
Also in this week's 'Next Text,' we examine Opening Day's (outsized?) TV demand, Kim Mulkey's (also outsized) outrage ... and a big moment for women's hoops
The Opening Day Carriage Bonanza Continues: Hulu + Live TV Adds MLB Network
By Daniel Frankel published
Deal will add more than 100 nationally televised MLB games to vMVPD users' watch lists this season
RSN-Bereft Colorado Rockies Look to Follow Padres and Diamondbacks Local TV Model, MLB to Distribute Channel Via DirecTV, Comcast, Charter, Fubo ... and DTC
By Daniel Frankel published
Major League Baseball takes over local TV rights for team after Warner Bros. shut down SportsNet Rocky Mountain
Integration of Hulu Into Disney Plus Described as 'Massive Lift' Involving More Than 100,000 Individual Creative Assets
By Daniel Frankel published
Disney technologists describe the process of natively assimilating a 16-year-old streaming service into a modern app
Netflix Artistic License Defense Fails as Judge Allows 'Inventing Anna' Defamation Suit to Proceed
By Daniel Frankel published
Long known to take artistic license with some of its subjects, Netflix now has a legal battle on its hands
Peacock Gets Another NFL Exclusive, Will Stream Opening-Weekend Game From São Paulo, Brazil
By Daniel Frankel published
Move comes after Peacock's January AFC Wild Card exclusive averaged 23 million viewers while delivering an estimated 3 million sign-ups
Spectrum Mobile Cuts Off Data Roaming on Airplanes, Cruise Ships, Certain Foreign Countries
By Daniel Frankel published
Plan on traveling to the Cook Islands? Better find WiFi if you want to make a call or use the internet
Mediacom Launches Xumo Stream Box
By Daniel Frankel published
New York-based cable operator has sworn off QAM video
ESPN To Link Its App and Website Users Directly to RSNs
By Daniel Frankel published
Starting this week, local Boston Red Sox fans will be able to access their NESN subscription via the 'World Wide Leader'
Is This What the Twitter/X App for Smart TVs Will Look Like?
By Daniel Frankel published
Web developer releases video clip of YouTube-like experience
By ‘DTC,’ They Meant ‘Direct to Charter’
By Daniel Frankel, David Bloom published
In this week’s ‘Next Text,’ we call out the Dodgers’ RSN distribution, Warner's far-fetched DC ambitions, and (of course) Shari’s latest offer
NFL’s Brian Rolapp on Spulu: ‘For $20 more ... I Could Buy YouTube TV and Have All of the NFL’
By Daniel Frankel published
Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. haven't even announced a price for their upcoming sports streaming bundle, but the NFL's top media exec is throwing shade, anyway
Electronic Frontier Foundation Seeks to Unseal DOCSIS-Related Patent Beef Between Charter and Entropic
By Daniel Frankel published
'The legal issues in the case and their potential implications for the DOCSIS standard are a matter of public concern,' digital rights group says
Warner Sets Rollout Date for Max in Europe
By Daniel Frankel published
The platform will first debut in The Nordics, Iberia, and Central and Eastern Europe, where it will subsume the legacy HBO Max and feature season 2 of 'House of the Dragon' and wall-to-wall coverage of this summer's Paris Olympic Games
Super Bowl LVIII Netted Paramount Plus 3.4 Million Sign-ups, Research Company Says
By Daniel Frankel published
Antenna also found that 71% who signed up for Peacock for its AFC Wild Card exclusive were still subscribing seven weeks later
Charter Starts Delivering Live Dodgers Games Free to Spectrum One Customers
By Daniel Frankel published
But Spectrum SportsNet LA isn't going to be available to anyone and everyone in a DTC streaming format this season
MyBundle Signs Up Consolidated Communications, Now Reaching 13 Million U.S. Broadband Subscribers
By Daniel Frankel published
Mattoon, Illinois telecom has nearly 200,000 FTTH customers, who will now have access to MyBundle's streaming education and recommendation tools
Retreat, Hell! Embattled Paramount Plus Expands Ad-Supported Tier to Canada and Australia, Proliferates 'Premium' Plan Across Europe
By Daniel Frankel published
Move comes with pushback from a certain celebrity analyst, who questions the very existence of Paramount's DTC streaming business
ESPN Signs Six-Year, $7.8 Billion Extension for the Expanding College Football Playoff Tournament
By Daniel Frankel published
Deal will pay the College Football Playoff $1.3 Billion a season through 2032
YouTube, Tubi and Peacock Show the Biggest YoY Market Share Gains in Nielsen's Latest 'Gauge' Graphic
By Daniel Frankel published
But streaming's overall market share remained flat with June of last year
Netflix’s Hot Sports Documentary Biz Targets ‘Receiver’
By Daniel Frankel published
Following the successful Netflix debut last year of its ‘Quarterback,’ Peyton Manning’s Omaha Productions followed Davante Adams, Justin Jefferson, George Kittle, Deebo Samuel and Amon-Ra St. Brown throughout the 2023 NFL season