DSTAC-ing The Pay-TV Deck
The FCC seems determined to crack open the set-top box. Read More …
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Who Wants To Be An MVPD?
The FCC extend program access rights to OTT services, but does anyone want them? 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 …
Comcast’s Bid for Time Warner Cable Gets Bundled Away
In his statement on Comcast’s decision to drop its $45 billion bid for Time Warner Cable, Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler made it clear his agency was concerned about the merger’s potential impact on the development of the over-the-top video market: Today, an online video market is emerging that offers new business models and Read More …
Apple’s Least-Favored Network: NBC
Ever since the Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month on Apple’s evolving plans to launch a multichannel subscription streaming video service, much has been made, largely by those already inclined to be suspicious of Comcast’s motives, of the reported absence of Comcast-owned NBC from the talks Apple is said to be holding with the other Read More …