This week, ABC is taking the fight against Aereo to the New York-based startup’s home turf: the network will start streaming its entire programming schedule in real-time to viewers in New York and Philadelphia. This marks the first time one of the major broadcasters has streamed a 24-hour live feed online.
This week, ABC is taking the fight against Aereo to the New York-based startup’s home turf: the network will start streaming its entire programming schedule in real-time to viewers in New York and Philadelphia.
ABC is debuting an app for viewers to watch live television on computers and mobile devices. ABC-owned and operated affiliates in New York and Philadelphia will begin live streaming of its shows and local programming on Tuesday
This week ABC will quietly revolutionize its app for iPhones and iPads with a button called “live.†Users around New York and Philadelphia will be able to live-stream all the programming from ABC’s local stations there, the first time that any major broadcaster has turned on such a technology.
It’s taken awhile, but Wall Street is now regarding Google’s deployment of Google Fiber in Kansas City with less animus and more admiration, predicting the new Internet and pay-TV play could be a headache for Time Warner Cable and AT&T U-verse, which both have irons in the K.C. fire, and even become “an economically attractive†[…]
Movieline, which started its life as a film and entertainment magazine popular with film critics before being relaunched as a website in 2009, is taking its digital presence a step further, kicking off a YouTube channel, featuring movie previews and reviews, as well as profiles of actors and breaking Hollywood news courtesy of partners Variety […]
I’m in the process of writing a check for my cable bill today, an ungodly large check for the service I get, and I’m including a note to whomever at Charter Communications reads these kinds of things. I’m unsubscribing. After three years on their books, I’m giving up on waiting for fast—as in consistently fast—Internet […]
More news this week that positions smart TVs as essential players in the over-the-top and multiscreen marketplace, as TDG released its report—The In-Home CE and Home Network Ecosystem – 2013—contending that one-quarter of U.S. households now own at least one smart TVs, up from just half of that in 2011. That news shouldn’t be too […]
So, whom do you know who doesn’t, at least occasionally, watch online video? After you call them in from the cave and introduce them to, oh, maybe Hulu and ABC.com, take a look at the findings from two reports for some insight into what it appears Madison Avenue finally is figuring out: online video is […]
These days, many want to suggest that cable TV offerings will be “killed†or “replaced†by content services being delivered over the Internet using content delivery networks.
One of the themes at NAB 2013 was high efficiency video codecs. I spoke with several vendors, including upLynk and Harmonic, claiming that we would not have to wait very long to begin to reap the benefits of HEVC/h.265 technology.
Fans of “All My children†and “One Life to Live†have discovered—unequivocally—that there is life after death… and that it happens online. The two ABC soap opera, which had entertained millions of middle-of-the-afternoon drama fans for decades, met their untidy ends (neither of the shows had the time to wrap up the multiple plot lines […]
Indulge me for a moment. This weekend is the NFL Draft… an annual rite of passage for hundreds—if not thousands—of pro football hopefuls. ESPN has made it easier than even to follow each–agonizingly slow—selection. The draft is live on ESPN through the final pick around 7:30 p.m. Saturday. It’s being—for the first time ever–streamed live […]
See that bright light in the east? The sun? No. It’s the glow from Madison Avenue, where execs are smiling en masse at the latest comScore Video Metrix report that shows video ad views surged to a record high 13.2 billion in March. Meanwhile, the usual suspects made up the top video properties in the […]
Pyramid Research is out with a report that highlights mobile revenue growth in emerging markets regardless of what the rest of the global economy look like, forecasting that with economic growth projected to quintuple in those markets compared to developed markets, mobile will be the easiest tagalong. In its “Top Trends in the Global Communications†[…]
CBC, a national broadcaster in Canada, has strategically collaborated with Conviva to incorporate Conviva’s anticipatory optimization and per-viewer performance analytics.
The Provo Municipal Council has agreed to accept Google’s $1 payment, for the city’s iProvo fiber-optic network, clearing the way for the muni-fiber network to transition to Google Fiber, making Provo the third city to get the 1 Gbps Internet and pay-TV service. Google will lease the network to the city for free for the […]
This week is a good one to be a Netflix (NFLX) shareholder: Its earnings report showed 1Q earnings per share topped estimates (31 cents versus consensus 20 cents), revenues came in on target ($1.02 billion for the quarter), and earnings guidance for the second quarter is, in the best case scenario, nearly 50 percent above […]
With a little more space and some extra time, this would be a great opportunity to launch into a discussion about the Boston Tea Party, how the Sons of Liberty action against British tax policy helped launch the American Revolution, and how Aereo’s announcement today that it would be expanding its service into the Boston […]
