46 posts and columns on DirecTV

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DirecTV Consider Bid for Hulu

in Media on May 17 at 4:40 pm PT

DirecTV is weighing a potential bid for Hulu, the latest company to show interest in the six-year-old video site, according to a person familiar with the matter.

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TV Service Providers Held Talks With Aereo

in Media on March 31 at 5:02 pm PT

But no deals for would-be TV disruptor.

Waiting for the Cord-Cutting Numbers to Show Up? Keep Waiting.

in Media on March 20 at 1:26 pm PT

Another year of zero growth for pay TV. Which isn’t good, but it could be worse.
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DirecTV Bets on Web Video Ad Manager FreeWheel

in Media on January 31 at 7:53 am PT

More money for the “DoubleClick of Web Video.”
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Why Al Jazeera’s Cable Move Could Cost Much More Than $500 Million

in Media on January 4 at 11:40 am PT

The news channel’s new pay TV partners are paying up, for now. What happens if that changes? We may find out.
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DirecTV to Increase Prices by 4.5 Percent

in Media on December 27, 2012 at 1:15 pm PT

DirecTV plans to increase the prices of its programming packages by an average of 4.5 percent, starting Feb. 7, due to the higher programming costs the satellite-television provider expects to pay in 2013.

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A New Era in TV

in Voices on October 16, 2012 at 2:19 pm PT

We are in the early stages of a video creation, distribution, consumption, content bundling and pricing paradigm shift that will lead to fundamental shifts in the pay-TV ecosystem.

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Dish Network Adds Internet Service, Aimed at Rural Areas

in News on September 30, 2012 at 6:02 am PT

Dish Network Corp. plans to launch a nationwide broadband service next Monday under the brand dishNET, hoping to add a new revenue stream on top of its pay-television business.

Sony, DirecTV Bring Back NFL for Cord-Cutters

in Media on August 31, 2012 at 7:38 am PT

It’s not cheap, but it is legal: Every NFL game, on your TV, via your PS3.
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Google Pulls the Plug on Its TV Ads Business

in Media on August 30, 2012 at 3:00 pm PT

Remember when Google was going to make the leap from the Web to newspapers, radio and TV?
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The Truth About Pay TV: It’s Still Not Shrinking

in Media, August 3, 2012 at 3:00 am PT

Netflix, Epix, and the End of the Exclusive: Why Reed Hastings’s Competitors Will Get Their Hands on Some of His Biggest Movies

in Media, July 25, 2012 at 11:00 am PT

Viacom’s $5 Billion DirecTV Deal Keeps the Bundle Intact for Seven More Years

in Media, July 20, 2012 at 9:34 am PT

Viacom and DirecTV Settle

That Was Quick: Viacom Ends Web Ban for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert

in Media, July 17, 2012 at 4:20 am PT

Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert Stay Free on the Web, Thanks to a Hulu Loophole

in Media, July 11, 2012 at 6:01 pm PT

Pay-TV Guys Tell Customers How to Watch TV Without Paying. Again.

in Media, July 11, 2012 at 11:49 am PT

Canada’s TransGaming Acquires Oberon’s TV Interactive Division for $7 Million

Dear Dish Network: Your Spam Makes Me Sad. Please Stop.

in Media, November 23, 2011 at 3:30 am PT

Big Cable Loses More Subscribers, Still Says It Isn’t Seeing Cord-Cutting

in Media, October 27, 2011 at 7:29 am PT

Why the Dish/Blockbuster Streaming Service Won’t Wound Netflix

in Media, September 23, 2011 at 11:42 am PT

How to Watch the NFL on the Web, Legally, for Free

in Media, September 8, 2011 at 3:25 pm PT

Hulu Ponders Its Next Move

in News, August 21, 2011 at 5:30 pm PT

Would-Be Hulu Buyers Will Have Their Checkbooks Ready Next Week

in News, August 11, 2011 at 7:38 am PT

Netflix and Hulu Help Out Viacom, Too. Next Up: Apple? Amazon? Everyone?

in Media, August 5, 2011 at 7:12 am PT