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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

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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

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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’

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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

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ONTV Taps ENCO enCaption for Automated Captioning

Even though we're not bound by FCC rules, we think it's important to make our programming more accessible to the deaf and hard of hearing

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Comcast's Sky to Lay Off Nearly 1,000 Workers as Pay TV Unit Pivots to Streaming

The cuts account for around 4% of the unit's overall staff, with many of the employees in technical/engineering roles

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Harmonic Reports 20% Broadband Segment Revenue Growth in Q4 as CableOS Customer Base Expands to 108

Contracts with Comcast and Charter accounted for 56% of the sales

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Sky to cut 1,000 jobs as customers move from pay-TV to internet

Redundancies will come mainly from workers who install equipment in homes

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The Traitors season 2 is a US smash hit, and it could become Peacock's most successful show ever

After its UK and Australian counterparts dominated the TV scene internationally, The Traitors US is proving just as popular.

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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

Broadcasting & Cable

Peacock Subs Jump Nearly 50% YoY to 31M

The streamer added 3M in Q4 2023 and posted reduced losses

TV Tech

Is Comcast Experiencing a Goldilocks Moment in Broadband?

Despite loss of 34,000 high-speed internet customers in Q4, analyst says flat ARPU of 3.9% is ‘not too hot and not too cold’

Broadcasting & Cable

Comcast's Revenue Soars on Streaming and Theme Park Growth

Comcast reports strong revenue growth, driven by streaming and theme park expansion. Broadband decline is offset by other sectors.

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Netflix to FCC: Large ISPs Have Anti-Competitive Interconnection Clout

Streamer cites Comcast’s Peacock-exclusive NFL playoff game as example of potential power and opportunity to discriminate

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No Numbers From Comcast For Peacock’s NFL Playoff Game Impact

Retention and engagement of subs is more important, president Mike Cavanagh says

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Comcast Reports Higher Earnings as Peacock Makes Progress, but Broadband, Video Subs Decline

Revenue rose 2.3% to $31.3 billion

Broadcasting & Cable

Peacock’s Wild Card Weekend Resulted in the Biggest ‘Measured Signup Moment’ Ever, Research Company Claims

Jan. 13 NFL playoff matchup between the Chiefs and Dolphins, presented exclusively on Peacock, kicked off a weekend signup bonanza for the NBCU streaming service

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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?

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

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Your Fubo Streaming Subscription Is Going Up

Streaming services continue to raise prices with Fubo once again joining the bandwagon.

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LoopMe Starts Political Ad Unit Lead by Robin Porter

Exec was previously with Comcast

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Comcast Includes Existing Customers in New Xfinity Mobile ‘On Us’ Samsung Galaxy S24 Promotion

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

TV Tech

FCC Fines Mission $150K in Comcast Retrans Complaint

Comcast had filed a complaint against Nexstar and Mission Broadcasting for not negotiating in good faith

TV Tech

NBC Claims Streaming Crown, Angers NFL Fans

Comcast's Peacock stream of Saturday's Dolphins-Chiefs Wild Card playoff garnered 6% more viewers than in 2023, but exclusivity ticked off viewers

Broadcasting & Cable

Imagine Being a Cry Baby Who Thinks They’re Entitled to Free Televised Football

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

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Take That, Critics! Comcast Says Its NFL Wild Card Exclusive on Peacock Was the Biggest Live-Streamed Event in U.S. History

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

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