Dish Network announced its third quarter earnings this morning, and the results are a mixed bag. The financial news is good this quarter. The company reported $3.73 billion in revenue for the quarter, which is up from the $3.68 billion in revenue from the same quarter in 2014. Earnings per share were $0.42 compared with $0.31 […]
Service Providers Unbundle FOX Business Network for Republican Debates
Multiple cable providers have reached agreements with FOX Business Network to unbundle the channel so their entire subscriber bases will have access to the channel for the next Republican debate. On Tuesday, November 10, DIRECTV, Suddenlink, Mediacom, Frontier, Wide Open West, and Cable One, along with a significant number of National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC) […]
Sony’s Playstation Vue Announces Content Deal with ABC, Disney and ESPN
Videogame consoles are an underrated soldier in the war of OTT; more people own an Xbox or a Playstation than a Roku or a Chromecast, after all. The console companies have deals with multiple different content providers, but Sony might have pulled out in front of its console competition. The company announced a wide-reaching content […]
Cable ONE Announces 200 “Gig City” Locations
Cable ONE, the 13th biggest cable provider in the U.S., is racing into the gigabit wars. The company announced that it is going to roll out 1Gbps service to more than 200 cities and towns in its service area. The cities will start getting 1Gbps in 2016, and most of them are in the southwest […]
CenturyLink Q3 Results: Profit, Subscribers Up
CenturyLink announced its results for Q3 in 2015 this afternoon, and things looked good for the Louisiana-based provider. Profits for the quarter clocked in at $390 million, or $.70 a share. In Q3 of 2014, the company had $359 million in profits at $.63 a share, so profits were up 9 percent year-over-year. Total revenue […]
Verizon Gets NBA for Go90: Live Games and Original Series Coming
Verizon is about to take off from the free throw line and slam dunk its OTT competition: it announced this morning that it had come to a content agreement with the NBA to bring highlights, live games and original series to Go90, according to the New York Times. The deal has been heating up for […]
Cablevision Announces Q3 Earnings: Revenue and TV Subscribers Down, Still Ready for Altice Acquisition
Cablevision, which is still waiting for regulatory approval to sell itself to Altice, has announced its quarter three earnings. Like other service providers this quarter, Cablevision saw a decrease in television subscribers, but gains in customers looking to only subscribe to Internet service. Cablevision lost 10,000 net customers in Q3, with 33,000 video customers leaving […]
Sckipio Technologies Gets Intel Investment
Intel is betting long on G.fast beating out DOCSIS 3.1: the company just announced that it is investing in Sckipio, the Isreali G.fast modem manufacturer. Sckipio and Intel have been partners prior to the investment, but the investment is an investment on Sckipio going forward. “Sckipio and Intel have been working closely together since the […]
FCC Fines M.C. Dean $718,000 for Wi-Fi Blocking, Commissioners Blast Ruling
The FCC has lowered the boom on M.C. Dean, a company that had been blocking Wi-Fi access and hotspots of visitors at the Baltimore Convention Center. The FCC has fined M.C. Dean $718,000, citing that the company was charging groups visiting the Baltimore Convention Center as much as $1095 for access to Wi-Fi hot spots, […]
Vice Rumored to Be Nearing Deal for TV Channel
According to a report in the New York Times, Vice Media—the millennial-focused media company—is nearing a deal with A&E Networks to launch a Vice TV channel. If the report is accurate, Vice would be handed the reigns of A&E’s H2 Channel—the companion to the History Channel—at the end of February. Vice, which has a documentary […]