65 posts and columns on DirecTV

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DirecTV Explores Online Video Service

in News on December 12, 2013 at 4:09 pm PT

DirecTV is exploring the idea of an online video service that would appeal to “price-sensitive” young people or other customers who have dropped their pay-TV service, the satellite TV firm said on Thursday.

Good News for the Cable Guys! Subscriber Numbers Dropped Again.

in Media on November 12, 2013 at 10:50 am PT

So why are the pay-TV guys smiling?

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Sports Programming Dominates the Living Room

in Voices on November 8, 2013 at 11:35 am PT

How sports programming is reshaping the TV landscape and driving a new generation of technology.

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The Digital TV Endgame: 10-Year Transition to All Things IP

in Voices on October 25, 2013 at 9:02 am PT

It’s not just a question of content availability.

How the Attack on NY Times and Twitter Domains Could Have Been Worse

in News on August 28, 2013 at 11:22 am PT

Look at all these unlocked domain names.
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The Disequilibrium of Power: How Retransmission Consent Went So Wrong, and How to Fix It

in Voices on August 27, 2013 at 9:01 am PT

Local broadcast retransmission consent legislation was never intended to fund NFL rights acquisition and prime-time network programming.

Why Web TV Skeptic Mark Cuban Thinks Google Can Make the NFL Work on the Web

in Media on August 21, 2013 at 7:09 pm PT

Are the Web’s pipes really up to delivering live football, to millions of TVs, at the same time?

Is Google Ready to Buy Its Way Into TV With an NFL Deal?

in Media on August 20, 2013 at 6:05 pm PT

Google CEO Larry Page met with NFL head Roger Goodell today. Among the topics: The league’s “Sunday Ticket” subscription service.

“Cord Cutting Used to Be a Myth. It Isn’t Anymore.”

in Media on August 6, 2013 at 9:11 am PT

Pay TV subscriber losses are small, but they’re accelerating. Here we go …

CBS Has a Weapon It Won’t Use in Its Time Warner Cable Fight

in Media on July 19, 2013 at 12:49 pm PT

For a good reason (at least in Les Moonves’ eyes).

How Google or Apple Could Make Web TV a Reality: Spend Billions on the NFL

in Media, July 19, 2013 at 3:00 am PT

Hulu’s Final Bidders: DirecTV, AT&T + Chernin, Time Warner Cable

in Media, July 9, 2013 at 6:11 pm PT

Time Warner Cable’s Bid for Hulu Is to Be Fourth Owner

Silver Lake Abandons Hulu Purchase Effort, as Final Bidding Deadline Arrives Today

in Media, July 5, 2013 at 8:36 am PT

Apple TV Gets a Bit Bigger, With HBO and ESPN Apps (For Most, but Not All of You)

in Media, June 19, 2013 at 8:19 am PT

Time Warner Cable Says It’s Blocking Some Programmers from the Web — But It’s Still Not Holding Up Web TV

in Media, June 12, 2013 at 3:40 pm PT

AT&T Discusses Entering Into a Joint Bid for Hulu With Chernin Group

in Media, June 5, 2013 at 10:10 pm PT

Yahoo’s Bid for Hulu in $600M to $800M Range — Even as It Preps Other Big Deals in Mobile and Communications

in Media, May 26, 2013 at 11:55 am PT

DirecTV Consider Bid for Hulu

in Media, May 17, 2013 at 4:40 pm PT

TV Service Providers Held Talks With Aereo

in Media, March 31, 2013 at 5:02 pm PT

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

in Media, March 20, 2013 at 1:26 pm PT

DirecTV Bets on Web Video Ad Manager FreeWheel

in Media, January 31, 2013 at 7:53 am PT

Why Al Jazeera’s Cable Move Could Cost Much More Than $500 Million

in Media, January 4, 2013 at 11:40 am PT

DirecTV to Increase Prices by 4.5 Percent

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

A New Era in TV

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