New CEO To Run Diamond Sports As Sinclair Gets Sent To the Bench Jon Lafayette published 5 December 22 Bally Sports RSNs become more independent from broadcaster
Is Powerful Amazon About to Over-Run the Entertainment Sector? (Bloom) David Bloom published 5 December 22 Below the surface, the sleeping giant with a $960 billion market cap, a movie and TV studio, and major-league sports rights, seems to be making big plans
Magna Sees National TV Network Ad Revenue Down 6.3% in 2023 Jon Lafayette published 5 December 22 AVOD, OTT forecast to post 31.6% gain
DirecTV and Fox Renew Program Licensing Deal, Avoid Blackout Daniel Frankel published 3 December 22 Pay TV blackout would have taken off Fox owned-and-operated stations, as well as Fox Sports 1 and 2 on a big weekend for football and World Cup action
Fox-DirecTV Deadline Passes Without Blackout Beginning Jon Lafayette published 3 December 22 Agreement on new distribution deal reached
NBC Orders More 'Lopez vs Lopez' Michael Malone published 2 December 22 Rookie comedy features George Lopez, Mayan Lopez
World Cup Knockout Stage; Tyson Fury's Boxing Return: What’s On This Weekend in TV Sports (December 3-4) By R. Thomas Umstead published 2 December 22 A look at the weekend's top TV sports events on broadcast, cable and streaming services
U.S. Pay TV Penetration Retreats to Pre-Satellite Level 61% By Daniel Frankel published 2 December 22 Cord-cutting reached an all-time high of 6.2% in Q3, according to MoffettNathanson
U.S. Court Says Stream Stealer NitroTV Must Pay $51 Million By John Eggerton published 2 December 22 Cites widespread copyright infringement
OneWeb Adding to Satellite Broadband Fleet By John Eggerton published 2 December 22 Launch window for 40 new LEOs opens next week
AMC Networks Restructuring To Result in $350-$475 Million Charge By Jon Lafayette published 1 December 22 Severance and retention costs total $50 million to $75 million
Cover Story: A TV Field of Their Own Posted Women’s sports are getting unprecedented airtime, audiences
For Women in the Game, Title IX Is Bigger Than Sports Posted Landmark law, now 50, opened a field of opportunities to this year’s class of top women TV sports executives
40 Under 40 New York: TV’s Best and Brightest Hit the Big City Posted NYC TV Week gala returns to honor the industry’s emerging executives
SCTE Cable-Expo Preview: It’s All About the Broadband Posted After two years of virtual meetings, technology gathering becomes in-person event again
Cable Hall of Fame Comes Back for a Gala N.Y. Night Posted 2022 class set to be honored in person at red-carpet event
Xumo TV: Everything You Need to Know About the Comcast and Charter Streaming OS Joint Venture By Scott Lehane published 1 December 22 An up-to-date look at the TVOS JV being launched by America’s biggest cable operators
Shane Portfolio Joins Charter as Senior VP, Network Engineering By Jon Lafayette published 30 November 22 Gary Koerper, Make Baldino promoted to senior VP
Who Knew? T-Mobile's Neville Ray Says Booming FWA Home Internet Biz Is Built on Spare Network Capacity - 'The Cost of Serving FWA Customers Is De Minimis' By Daniel Frankel published 17 November 22 T-Mobile CEO says the network capacity being used for its fast-growing fixed wireless access service isn't needed for mobile
Fixed Wireless Access Gets Put to the Test in Major Markets - Why 'Middle of the Pack' Looks Good Enough to Us By Daniel Frankel published 17 November 22 According to a new Opensignal report, fast-proliferating 5G FWA services aren't the fastest broadband offerings out there right now. But for the money? Why not?
Gigabit-Speed Internet Is Still in Only 15% of U.S. Internet Homes By Daniel Frankel published 15 November 22 Adoption of 1 Gbps provisioned speed internet has heated up a bit recently, but the uptake remains small given the telecom industry's expensive ramp-up to multi-gigabit speeds
U.S. Court Says Stream Stealer NitroTV Must Pay $51 Million By John Eggerton published 2 December 22 Cites widespread copyright infringement
OneWeb Adding to Satellite Broadband Fleet By John Eggerton published 2 December 22 Launch window for 40 new LEOs opens next week
Groups Say Streamers Are Still Marketing Violence to Kids By John Eggerton published 1 December 22 Seek FTC investigation
NCTA Backs Rural ReConnect Subsidy Revamp By John Eggerton published 30 November 22 Would better target money to 'truly unserved' areas
Congress Must Provide Clarity on America’s Wireless Future By Evan Swarztrauber, Luke Hogg published 28 November 22 Reauthorization affords an opportunity to refine FCC’s spectrum auction authority
