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DirecTV Consider Bid for Hulu

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

But no deals for would-be TV disruptor.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Remember when Google was going to make the leap from the Web to newspapers, radio and TV?
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