Apple Covers Its Musical Bases
No one in the streaming music business seems terribly confident about their own business model right now, even as new players continue to pile into the market. Read More …
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With New Features For Chromecast, Google Ups The Ante In The Living Room
While traditional TV content increasingly migrates away from the TV itself, onto mobile devices and screens, the TV screen is increasingly being commandeered by those same mobile devices for the display of content that originates elsewhere. Read More …
FCC Engineers Some Cable Consolidation
It would be a stretch to suggest that Tom Wheeler was literally orchestrating such a complex and expensive set of deals from the eighth floor of the FCC’s headquarter. But the combination of mergers and non-mergers — in which the FCC’s actions played a material role — will nonetheless leave behind a rough parity at the top of the pay-TV/broadband weight scale, among Comcast, AT&T and Charter. Read More …
Music Streaming’s Hidden Fees
Apart from precise dollar figures, there’s little in Sony’s leaked contract with Spotify, to surprise anyone familiar with how the major media companies do business with service providers. Read More …
A Fighting Chance for Live and Over-the-Top
The Mayweather-Pacquiao fight shattered all previous records for a pay-per-view event, according to the official tally from HBO and Showtime, racking up 4.4 million buys in the U.S. worth more than $400 million. As we now know, it was too much of a good thing. A last-minute crush of orders KO’d many pay-TV operators’ ability Read More …