Charter Rolls Out Disney’s ESPN Plus to Spectrum TV Select Plus Customers Spectrum TV subscribers got Disney Plus earlier this year under new carriage contract Multichannel News · Mar 7, 2024
Charter CEO Chris Winfrey Dismisses FWA as ‘Cellphone Internet’ Speaking at a Morgan Stanley investor event, Winfrey used the term ‘inferior product’ no less than five times to describe fixed wireless access Multichannel News · Mar 6, 2024
Charter Names Wally Bakare, Chris Fulton Regional VPs Bakare will manage Spectrum’s West region; Fulton oversees Northwest region Multichannel News · Mar 6, 2024
Are You Kidding Me? Charter CEO Chris Winfrey Made More Than Shohei Ohtani Last Year Factoring in stock options, the cable exec took home more than a two-way baseball star who just signed a 10-year, $700 million contract with the Dodgers Multichannel News · Mar 5, 2024
Altice USA’s Dennis Mathew on Spulu: ‘We Want Our Linear Customers To Have Access to These Types of Solutions’ CEO also says he doesn't want to be ‘distracted’ by Charter acquisition talk Broadcasting & Cable · Mar 5, 2024
A Potential Altice USA Purchase 'Makes Sense' for Charter, But Comcast Should Kick the Tires, Too, Analyst Says New Street Research's Jonathan Chaplin says it would be 'irresponsible' or Comcast not to also take a look at buying the currently deflated New York cable company. T-Mobile might also consider making a run, he added Broadcasting & Cable · Feb 27, 2024
Paramount Faces Challenging Renewal Talks with Charter, Analyst Says The high degree of overlap of CBS and Nickelodeon content between Paramount Plus and Paramount linear channels will make carving out a Disney-like bundling deal with the top U.S. pay TV operator tricky, says Lightshed Partners' Richard Greenfield Broadcasting & Cable · Feb 26, 2024
Altice Shares Jump on Charter Buyout Report Cable operator’s stock up 40% to $2.61 a share Multichannel News · Feb 26, 2024
U.S. Streaming Revenue Will Surpass Total Pay TV Coin in Q3, Research Company Predicts The introduction of cheaper ad tiers has driven up ARPU, according to London's Ampere Analysis Broadcasting & Cable · Feb 26, 2024
Streaming Revenues Expected to Eclipse Pay-TV Revenues in U.S. This Year Increased revenue from advertising and a boost in subscriber growth, alongside the decline in traditional pay TV, has led to inflection point, Ampere says TV Tech · Feb 26, 2024
Charter Agrees To Modify Spectrum Mobile Ad Per NAD Recommendation Charter’s claims of ‘advanced Wi-Fi’ and ‘leading’ American ISPs were singled out as potentially unsupported Broadcasting & Cable · Feb 21, 2024
Pay TV Companies, and the DOJ, Push Back on Big 'Spulu' Sports Streaming Joint Venture The new service would seem to run right up against so-called 'most-favored-nation' agreements with operators, who have been clamoring for similar kinds of skinny bundles for decades Broadcasting & Cable · Feb 15, 2024
Paramount Global's Possible Sale Sparks Speculation on Media Merger Learn about the potential sale of Paramount Global, one of the largest media companies in the world, amid financial challenges and media mergers. Top News · Feb 15, 2024
Charter Zings T-Mobile Fixed Wireless Again in Latest Super Bowl Ad (See the Commercial Here) We also posted T-Mobile's latest Donald Faison/Zach Braff 5G Home Internet spot Broadcasting & Cable · Feb 12, 2024
Multichannel News · Feb 11, 2024 Charter Runs Commercial for Home Internet During Super Bowl Spot airs in Kansas City, some Spectrum markets
Broadcasting & Cable · Feb 8, 2024 YouTube TV: Everything You Need to Know About What Is Now the 4th Largest Pay TV Platform in America How Google's $35-a-month skinny bundle turned into the only thing in linear TV that's still growing
Broadcasting & Cable · Feb 7, 2024 Why ‘Re-Bundling Has To Happen’: Breaking Down the New ESPN, TNT Sports and Fox Sports Streaming JV The Hulu-like JV makes sense with tier-1 pay TV distribution dwindling, league partners who’d rather be streaming, a multibillion-dollar NBA rights renewal pending, Amazon stalking … and YouTube TV pulling away
Broadcasting & Cable · Feb 6, 2024 YouTube TV Surpasses 8 Million Subscribers, Becomes No. 4 U.S. Pay TV Company The fast growth of Google's vMVPD is almost single-handedly flattening the fast-accelerating arc of video cord cutting
Broadcasting & Cable · Feb 5, 2024 Everything You Need To Know About the Bally Sports Bankruptcy We detail the long struggle, as bankrupt subsidiary Diamond Sports Group fights to keep broadcaster Sinclair's big, ambitious, specularly unsuccessful regional sports networks play out of liquidation
Broadcasting & Cable · Feb 5, 2024 Charter Communications’ Wall Street Slide Reaches 19% After Friday Earnings Miss Charter lost more broadband customers than expected in the fourth quarter. And as one analyst put it, ‘It’s all about broadband net adds’Charter lost more broadband customers than expected in the fourth quarter. And as one analyst put it, ‘It’s all about broadband net adds’
Broadcasting & Cable · Feb 2, 2024 For What It's Worth: Charter Is the New Pay TV King, Narrowly Surpasses Comcast By 17,000 Subscribers Comcast, which lost more than 2 million video customers last year, finished 2023 with just 14.106 million remaining pay TV souls across residential and commercial channels vs. 14.122 million for Charter
Multichannel News · Feb 2, 2024 Charter Reports Video, Internet Subscriber Losses for Q4 Mobile business helps boost revenue, but stock drops on news
Broadcasting & Cable · Feb 2, 2024 Charter Says It's Shifting and Expanding Its Call Centers to Keep Up With Its Changing Business, Has No Plans to Move Them Back Overseas The cable giant has shuttered -- and opened -- a number of customer support locations recently
Broadcasting & Cable · Jan 25, 2024 Did Comcast Just Slip to Become the No. 2 U.S. Pay TV Operator? After dropping over 2 million linear video subscribers in 2023, Comcast -- at least until Charter reports Q4/full-year numbers on Feb. 2 -- now ranks second
Kiplinger · Jan 24, 2024 Charter Spectrum To Add New TelevisaUnivision Streaming Service Bundle Spectrum subscribers will be able to watch a new Spanish-language streaming service for free later this year. Here’s what to know.