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†[…]
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 […]
Social TV will bring content providers, TV networks, multichannel operators, and advertisers opportunity and challenges, according to new research. The impact of social TV already is changing the way users view TV, moving it from “a passive consumption medium to a new kind of community experience, in which millions of Americans gather around the digital […]
With pay-TV providers continuing to lose subscribers to over-the-top offerings like Netflix and Hulu, the question in the C-suite has to be “How do we keep/get back those former subscribers †Turns out, that’s a pretty simple proposition: Bribe them. New research posits that 44 percent of customers who re-subscribed to pay-TV services in the […]
Netflix has gotten a big boost from Richard Greenfield, an analyst at BTIG Research, who has stamped a BUY rating on the content aggregator and reset its price target to $250… a big journey from its current range, but still shy of the $300 heights it hit before its bubble burst. Why now? Greenfield says […]
Have you got “the best idea ever†for a streaming media service? You might just be nearing the catbird seat. (Psst! Intel, Google Fiber listen up!) A poll from Harris Interactive suggests that nearly 40% of U.S. adults in that prime 18-34 age group would be willing to leave their pay-TV service provider for a […]
Just one more sign that the pay-TV model—as we know it—is in for more than a little upheaval: A new report says content owners–like HBO, Disney and Fox–will play an increasingly large role in the growth of the encoding and transcoding market as they look for ways to go directly to consumers with their products. […]
Yes, I admit I am a Game of Thrones fan (thank you eldest son for pointing me to yet another hour of time I’ll never get back). And, I pay HBO each month to access its service to watch Thrones, old and new episodes. I’m pretty sure said son, who has never actually had his […]
