- RSN Flexibility, Sports TV Desires: New Legacy Pay TV Life?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, May 3, 2024
DirecTV has renewed its deal with Diamond Sports Group, giving consumers t ...
- Paramount's Bakish To Step Down: Reports
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, April 29, 2024
Currently Paramount is considering a bid from Skydance Media, with another joi ...
- More Bundles? Consumer Confusion Or Comparison Shopping Delight?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, April 18, 2024
Charter will expand its differentiated packages under the new TV/streaming bundle: smal ...
- Big Media Storms To Come: Paramount Global Moving Through Rough Seas
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, April 8, 2024
A potentially eye-opening move by legacy TV network groups and legacy p ...
- YouTube TV To Be Biggest Pay TV Provider In 2026, Reach Profitability In 2024: Analyst
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, March 28, 2024
YouTube TV "still presents a great value to those still watching line ...
- TV Networks, Streaming, Broadband: Happy Partners - Or Frenemies In The Making?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, March 8, 2024
With all the focus on linear TV networks and their owners, ...
- Paying 'Double' For TV Content? New Focus For Consumers And Pay TV
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, February 27, 2024
A long-term question is how to prevent consumers from paying "double" f ...
- Charter's Decline In Broadband, Video Subscribers Alarms Investors
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, February 2, 2024
Charter's broadband results came in below expectations for Q4, with a lo ...
- Charter Inks Deal For TelevisaUnivision's ViX Streamer Ad Option
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Charter's video distribution business will offer a new version of ViX ...
- Charter Offers Disney+ Basic Ad Option For Free To Spectrum TV Select Customers
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, January 4, 2024
Charter is making its Disney+ Basic ad-supported option available at not addition ...
- Legacy TV-Based Stocks Suffer Rough 2023 As Digital, Streaming Soar
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, January 3, 2024
The weak performance of legacy TV network-based media companies' stock market sha ...
- New Year Streaming Headaches: Bundle, Unbundle Or Bumble?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, January 2, 2024
It's mostly about the streaming-only bundle, seemingly in growing demand for mode ...
- Meet The New Boss, Same As The Old Boss: Selling New Streaming Bundles
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, December 7, 2023
WBD CEO David Zaslav is pushing for more bundling of all streami ...
- NBA Fee Hikes Coming: A Game Changer For Warner Bros. Discovery?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, November 3, 2023
Warner Bros. Discovery may need the NBA deal more than Disney, whi ...
- Charter Sees 6% Loss In Cable Video Subscribers, More Disney-Type Deals Coming
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, October 27, 2023
Charter had a major loss in cable video subscriptions of 327,000 custome ...
- TV Stations Rejoice As Cable TV Channels Hit Hard Times - More Retrans Money?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, October 23, 2023
Despite an overall down-trending perception of linear TV, big U.S. TV stati ...
- Silver TV Lining: Goodbye To Smaller Cable Channels? When Less Is More
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, October 10, 2023
TV network groups with 15 to 20 channels might have good reas ...
- More Legacy TV Carriage Troubles For More Small To Mid-sized Cable Networks?
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, October 5, 2023
S&P Global Market Intelligence says more niche, small to mid-sized cable ...
- Xumo Stream Box Ramps Up: Competition For Roku, Amazon?
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, October 5, 2023
Comcast Corp./Charter Communications is offering a new streaming set-top device, Xumo Stre ...
- Charter/Disney Fallout: Bad Trouble For Freeform, Other Cable Nets
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Tuesday, September 19, 2023
Whatever is really going on here, the TV business looks like ...
- Is The 'A La Carte' Picking Of TV Networks, Streamers Now A Myth?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, September 18, 2023
Right now, the prevailing wisdom is that consumers want all the popul ...
- Another Ground-Breaking TV Deal For Disney?
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, September 15, 2023
"ABC would add to [Nexstar's] existing $2 billion-plus of annual ad reven ...
- Charter CFO Says Disney Deal 'Met All Of Our Objectives'
MediaDailyNews, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, September 14, 2023
Charter didn't even sustain consequential subscriber losses while emerging with a ne ...
- Disney, Charter Standoff Ends Just In Time For Jets, 'Jeopardy!'
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Wednesday, September 13, 2023
In 20-20 hindsight, some disappointed Jets fans might have wished the ga ...
- Disney, Charter Forge Deal In Time For 'Monday Night Football' Kickoff
MediaDailyNews, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, September 11, 2023
Spectrum TV Select subscribers will get the Disney+ ad-supported tier and t ...
- Collateral Damage To TV Station Groups From Charter-Disney Issues?
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, September 7, 2023
The spillover effect of the Charter-Disney stalemate of a TV network distributi ...
- Charter Spectrum Subscribers Sue Over Disney Blackout
MediaDailyNews, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, September 7, 2023
Florida Gators football fans were outraged by "Lucy pulling the football aw ...
- Linear TV Affiliate Fee Concerns: Hurting Some Legacy Media More Than Others
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, September 5, 2023
Affiliate-fee revenues as a percentage of total company revenue is highest f ...
- Charter, Disney Battle Tests Dangerous TV Waters, Big Streaming Waves Ahead
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, September 6, 2023
Charter does not want long-term linear TV deals with network groups th ...
- Consumers Will Pay For Disney, Spectrum Money Battle
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Wednesday, September 6, 2023
The cable company accuses Disney of demanding a fee increase in ord ...