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Charter to Offer Pay TV Customers Paramount Plus at No Extra Charge with New Carriage Deal

Carved without the usual blackout rancor, licensing renewal enables cable operator to bundle even more subscription services

Broadcasting & Cable · May 23, 2024

Paramount, Charter Reach Carriage Deal That Includes Linear Networks, TV Stations and Streaming Services

Agreement follows model of groundbreaking Disney deal, adding streaming to the cable bundle

Multichannel News · May 23, 2024

Charter Begins Campaign to 'Rip Out Mobile Lines Stuck in Contracts,' Offers Prospective Customers $2,500 to Switch to Spectrum Mobile

CEO Chris Winfrey said last week that Charter would continue to refrain from handset subsidies and look to contract buyouts to sustain Spectrum Mobile's growth

Broadcasting & Cable · May 20, 2024

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Charter Offers Up To $2,500 for Switching to Spectrum Mobile

Multichannel News · May 20, 2024

Harmonic Shares Rise Nearly 17% After Cable Tech Vendor Beats Guidance in Q1

Comcast and Charter continue to drive the virtualized tech provider’s business, supplying nearly half its quarterly revenue

Broadcasting & Cable · May 2, 2024

American Connectivity Program Enters Partial Funded Death Spiral With Republican House Speaker Seemingly Indifferent Towards Its Rescue

Besides enabling 23 million disadvantaged American homes to afford internet, the ACP has been a boon to telecom operators including Charter Communications

Multichannel News · May 2, 2024

DirecTV Makes Diamond Sports Renewal Official, Secures Packaging Flexibility Similar to What It Carved Out with Charter's SportsNet RSNs

DirecTV is offering its base 'Entertainment' bundle sans regional sports networks

Broadcasting & Cable · May 1, 2024

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Serious, Big-Boy Cord-Cutting Finally Catches Up to Charter — Top Pay TV Provider Just Had Its Worst Quarterly Customer Losses Ever

While Comcast, DirecTV and Dish have been withered by attrition in recent years, Charter had largely been spared … until now

Broadcasting & Cable · Apr 26, 2024

T-Mobile FWA Growth Slows 23% in Q1 to 405,000 Customers ... Why It's Not Time for Comcast and Charter to Rejoice Just Yet

With Verizon also reporting decelerated first-quarter fixed wireless expansion, analyst says cable's competitive threat from FWA 'probably peaked in Q4 of last year' ... but cable has another problem

Broadcasting & Cable · Apr 26, 2024

Charter Reports Higher Q1 Profits Despite Broadband, Video Losses

Cord-cutting results in 392,000 fewer pay TV customers

Multichannel News · Apr 26, 2024

John Malone Quits Director Emeritus Role at Charter Amid Antitrust Concerns

The Clayton Act says Malone’s serving simultaneously on the boards of Charter and Warner Bros. Discovery is a no-no

Broadcasting & Cable · Apr 22, 2024

No ESPN, No Problem: Charter Launches $40-a-Month, 90-Channel Entertainment and News Streaming Bundle

Charter is also offering a $25-a-month Spanish-language vMVPD

Broadcasting & Cable · Apr 16, 2024

Spectrum Mobile Starts 'Anytime Upgrade' Option for Unlimited Plus Customers, Offers Super-Cheap $5-a-Month Device Insurance

Unlimited Plus tier subscribers can trade in their existing (working) device at any time during their contract

Broadcasting & Cable · Apr 9, 2024

Charter Communications Negotiating Renewal Deal With Paramount Global

Paramount Global and Charter Communications navigate negotiations and potential deals amidst evolving media industry landscape.

Diamond Sports Group Renews Charter Distribution Deal

Under the agreement, Spectrum TV Select Plus customers will also be able to stream Diamond’s RSN content by authenticating with their subscription credentials

Broadcasting & Cable · Apr 4, 2024

Diamond Survives Bankruptcy, Signs a Multiyear Carriage Renewal With Top Pay TV Operator Charter

Regional sports network operator prepares to exit bankruptcy, secures carriage in cable operator’s premium ‘Spectrum TV Select Plus’ tier

Broadcasting & Cable · Mar 24, 2024

By ‘DTC,’ They Meant ‘Direct to Charter’

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

Broadcasting & Cable · Mar 20, 2024

Charter Starts Delivering Live Dodgers Games Free to Spectrum One Customers

But Spectrum SportsNet LA isn't going to be available to anyone and everyone in a DTC streaming format this season

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Broadcasting & Cable · Mar 17, 2024

Point-Counterpoint: Should Paramount Plus Be Thrown Off the Mountain?

In our latest ‘Next Text,’ we don't want to call David Bloom an ignorant anything, but our columnist does try to use his fancy, well-deduced logic to undermine a streaming business with 70 million users

TV Tech · Mar 14, 2024

Allen Media Group Renews Carriage Deal with Charter

Charter’s Spectrum Cable and Streaming Platforms will continue to carry Allen Media Group networks and broadcast stations

Multichannel News · Mar 14, 2024

Allen Media Group Renews Carriage Deal With Charter

Agreement covers TV stations, The Weather Channel and other cable networks

Broadcasting & Cable · Mar 13, 2024

Charter CFO Jessica Fischer on Charter’s (Costly?) Stock Buyback Strategy: ‘There's No Change in the Way We Approach Those Things’

Cable operator has endured a paper loss of nearly $23 billion over the past four years through five rounds of stock buybacks

Multichannel News · Mar 12, 2024

Vecima Moves To Compete With Harmonic in Cable’s Fast-Emerging vCMTS Market

Competition for virtual network tech heats up as cable operators begin to ramp up for new DOCSIS 4.0 standard

Broadcasting & Cable · Mar 10, 2024

Netflix's Dan Lin Hire, WBD's Investor Wealth Fire, CNN's Ratings Mire, and 'Dune's' Week 2 Funeral Pyre

Also in this week's 'Next Text,' one of us once again chooses emotion over sound prognostication and picks 'The Holdovers' to win Best Picture

TV Tech · Mar 7, 2024

ESPN+ Launches on Charter’s Spectrum TV Select Plus

The streaming service is available to Spectrum TV Select Plus customers at no additional cost

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