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
Netflix Smashes Expectations on Subscriber and Revenue Growth in Q4, Swears It Won't Buy a Hollywood Conglomerate
By Daniel Frankel published
Streaming company adds more than 13 million customers while expanding sales by nearly 13%
Verizon Surpasses 3 Million Fixed Wireless Customers With 375K Additions in Q4
By Daniel Frankel published
The wireless giant re-emerges as a consumer home broadband force by more than doubling its FWA accounts in just one year
Netflix Film Chief Scott Stuber Leaving the Streaming Giant to Start a New Production Company
By Daniel Frankel published
Starting with 'Bird Box,' 'Extraction' and 'Red Notice,' Netflix produced a steady stream poorly reviewed but massively streamed hits under Stuber's watch. But lately, the hits have come slower
Netflix Makes $17 Million Sundance Buy of Horror-Comedy 'It's What's Inside'
By Daniel Frankel published
The winning bid for the Greg Jardin film comes a year after Netflix paid $20 million for workplace relationship drama 'Fair Play'
Bupkis on the 'Trump Bump'? Blowout Election Cycle Means More Hard Times for Slumping News Biz Entering Tuesday's New Hampshire Primary
By Daniel Frankel published
With news consumers resigned to a Biden-Trump rematch, the cable news audience was cut in half for last week's Iowa caucus
How Many Signups Did Peacock Just Get? Will Rob Manfred Really End Up Playing Ball Again with Bally? Is ‘Better Call Saul’ Really Chopped Liver? And Does the ‘L.A. Times’ Have Anyone Left to Lay Off?
By Daniel Frankel, David Bloom published
In our latest ‘Next Text’ we once again plunge headlong into digital disruption, never-ending beefs, ridiculous snubs … and the media machinations of unqualified men
Netflix Has 'Won the Streaming Wars,' Jessica Reif Ehrlich Declares
By Daniel Frankel published
Netflix's streaming scale is now out of reach for most competitors, the BofA analyst declares
Nelson Peltz Formally Kicks Off His Latest Disney Proxy Battle: Bob Iger's Management Team 'Saw That Streaming Was Coming and They Did Nothing!'
By Daniel Frankel published
Activist investor asks shareholders for his nomination, along with former Disney CFO Jay Rasulo, to the Disney board
YouTube Lays Off 100 Workers
By Daniel Frankel published
Cuts come mainly from the team that supports the video giant’s content creators … and despite a 12.5% spike in Q3 revenue
Comcast Includes Existing Customers in New Xfinity Mobile ‘On Us’ Samsung Galaxy S24 Promotion
By Daniel Frankel published
The wireless unit is giving new and existing subscribers $800 off on the pricey handset when they trade in their existing phone. At least someone around here knows how to retain a customer
Bankrupt Sinclair Subsidiary Diamond Finally Announces Restructuring Plan, With $115 Million Assist From Amazon ... But Will MLB, the NBA and the NHL Stick Around?
By Daniel Frankel published
'We will refrain from offering our congratulations,' an Major League Baseball lawyer told a beat reporter
Gray TV: The New Orleans Pelicans More Than Tripled Their Bally Sports Audience Friday By Airing Their Game on Local Broadcast TV
By Daniel Frankel published
The pro hoops franchise, which presents most of its games on bankrupt regional sports network Bally, averaged a solid 55,000 viewers on local broadcast last week
James Dolan Tied Up With Harvey Weinstein in Sexual Assault Allegation
By Daniel Frankel published
Woman's suit claims the MSG Network executive chairman trapped her with the notorious lech while his band, JD and the Straight Shot, was on tour with The Eagles a decade ago
Emmys Endure Another Record TV Audience Low, Average Only 4.3 Million Viewers on Fox
By Daniel Frankel published
The awards show, which went head-to-head with an NFC Wild Card game on ESPN, was down 27% from its previous nadir back in September 2022 on NBC
Altice USA Sets Huge Broadband Price Cuts: 36% Off on 300 Mbps FTTH
By Daniel Frankel published
The struggling cable operator is trying to undo an overzealous era of cost-cuts and consumer price increases
David Simon Laments Sale of the ‘Baltimore Sun’ to Far-Right Ideologue David Smith: “Everyone Needs to Sign Up for the ‘Baltimore Banner’ Right Now”
By Daniel Frankel published
The writer-producer famously built TV’s ‘Homicide: Life on the Street‘ and ’The Wire,’ based on his time as a ‘Sun’ crime reporter
Imagine Being a Cry Baby Who Thinks They’re Entitled to Free Televised Football
By Daniel Frankel, David Bloom published
In this week’s ‘Next Text,’ we explore how the social internet blew up when people found out that to watch an AFC Wild Card game, they had to pay $4.99 to simply and immediately sign up for a streaming service that could just as quickly and easily be canceled
Take That, Critics! Comcast Says Its NFL Wild Card Exclusive on Peacock Was the Biggest Live-Streamed Event in U.S. History
By Daniel Frankel published
Despite plenty of bitching and moaning about the game only being available via streaming, it was 6% more watched than last season's prime-time AFC Wild Card contest
Sports Media Shocker: NFL Reportedly in Advanced Talks To Buy an Equity Stake in ESPN
By Daniel Frankel published
The 'New York Post' reports that under an arrangement being considered by Disney and the National Football League, ESPN would take over operational control of NFL Media
RSNs Give Up More Ground: Pirates and Penguins Channel SportsNet Pittsburgh Gets Bumped By Comcast to $90-a-Month Premium Tier
By Daniel Frankel published
The channel, now under the joint ownership of the pro teams and New England Sports Network, was previously available on Comcast's cheaper 'Popular TV' package
Will the Egregious 'Extended Family' End the Traditional Multicam Sitcom For Good? (Frankel)
By Daniel Frankel published
You don't see too many networks bold enough to launch all-new original half-hour family comedies these days. It's too bad this latest effort is such a turkey
Wi-Fi 7: Everything You Need to Know About the Wi-Fi Alliance's Next Big Technology Standard
By Daniel Frankel published
Support for the just-certified 'IEEE 802.11be' standard is still scarce and expensive, but as the myriad demos at CES 2024 show, that won't be true for long
Charlie Ergen Makes ‘Inscrutable’ Moves, Shields Parts of Dish Spectrum and Pay TV Biz From Existing Creditors
By Daniel Frankel published
Equity analysts try to make sense of Dish/EchoStar chairman's latest ‘bewilderingly complicated’ strategery, fear ‘creditor-on-creditor violence’
Scripps Signs On With AI Advertising Startup Waymark
By Daniel Frankel published
Technology, which automates everything from ad buying to commercial production for small advertisers, will deploy into 41 E.W. Scripps markets
DirecTV-Tegna Blackout, Peacock Exclusive Threaten to Block Viewers Amid the NFL’s Big Wild Card Weekend
By Daniel Frankel published
The biggest ratings force in American television is about to kick off high holy postseason services, but ridiculous impediments for the rapt audience await