AT&T Takes $15.5 Billion Charge in Q4 for Declining Pay TV Biz Daniel Frankel Move comes as telecom shifts away from ‘high-overhead, premises-type’ operations like DirecTV
Groups Push Digital Civil Rights John Eggerton Some civil rights groups are using the first days of the new Administration as an "inflection point" to bend the arc of tech priorities toward justice and inclusion.
AT&T CEO John Stankey Targets Q2 for AVOD Version of HBO Max Daniel Frankel He says telecom’s overall business needs to ‘evolve’ beyond its subscription legacy
‘Resident Alien’ Premieres on Syfy Jan. 27 Michael Malone Alan Tudyk plays Harry, an alien pretending to be a doctor in a small Colorado town
Sinclair, Bally’s Rebrand Regional Sports Networks Jon Lafayette Fox Sports Carolinas, Fox Sports Tennessee folded into Bally Sports South and Bally Sports Southeast
FCC's Jessica Rosenworcel: Time to Think Big, and Act John Eggerton Acting FCC chair Jessica Rosenworcel's first public meeting in the center seat will consist of status reports on works in progress responsive to the Congress' passage of the COVID-19 aid package.
BET, Tyler Perry to Produce Special on COVID-19 Vaccine By R. Thomas Umstead ‘COVID-19 Vaccine and the Black Community: A Tyler Perry Special’ Debuts Jan. 28
Verizon Network Problem Takes Down Internet Across Northeast By Daniel Frankel Now resolved issue affected millions of users spanning Washington, D.C., to Boston Tuesday
FCC's Geoffrey Starks: Digital Disparities Must Not Stand By John Eggerton Provides his take on how emergency broadband funding should be handed out
Cover Story: Fringe Benefits After a year of pandemic-fueled gains, cable operators are rolling out the broadband carpet by extending their networks deeper into less-populated areas
Greg Daniels Knows What Works in Streaming: He Created ‘The Office’ Producer says comedy’s switch to Peacock is ‘exceeding expectations’
El Rey Network (2013-2020) Seeks Digital Afterlife Multicultural channel talks to streaming services after discontinuing linear feed
Edward Burns Period Piece ‘Bridge and Tunnel’ Hits Epix Twenty-somethings eye big city but are reluctant to leave their hometown
Verizon Network Problem Takes Down Internet Across Northeast By Daniel Frankel Now resolved issue affected millions of users spanning Washington, D.C., to Boston Tuesday
Canoe Receives Emmy Award for Technology and Engineering By Jon Lafayette Canoe Ventures was awarded a Technology and Engineering Emmy for cross-MVPD dynamic ad insertion for cable network video-on-demand content.
TiVo Partners With Voice ID Company Pindrop By Daniel Frankel Applications could include everything from basic authentication to differentiating user recommendation profiles
Univision App Comes to Amazon Fire TV By Daniel Frankel TV Everywhere app, which features content from Univision, UniMás and Galavisión, deploys on platform ahead of new Prende service
Charter Still ‘In Process’ of Managed WiFi Rollout By Daniel Frankel No. 2 U.S. operator Charter still hasn’t deployed managed WiFi in key markets such as Los Angeles
FCC's Geoffrey Starks: Digital Disparities Must Not Stand By John Eggerton Provides his take on how emergency broadband funding should be handed out
Sec. 230 gets Academic Once-Over at State of Net Conference By John Eggerton Issue likely to draw a Hill crowd this session
NCTA: Broadband Pledgers Should Qualify for Emergency Funds By John Eggerton The new FCC is getting a lot of help as it prepares to hand out $3.2 billion in Emergency Broadband Program (EBB) aid Congress appropriated as part of its COVID-19 relief package.