The Co-Dependent Marriage Of TV and Sports
The same centrifugal forces that are pulling apart the pay-TV bundle are starting to tug at the sports bundle. Read More …
Tag: Fox
Bad Sports: ESPN Sues Verizon
ESPN knows that some renegotiation of the bundle is inevitable. What it can’t abide is renegotiation on someone else’s terms. Read More …
Seeing Red over copyright
Having failed to put forth a competitive consumer proposition to counter Redbox’s dollar-a-night DVD rentals, the studios are on the verge of accomplishing what, from the point of view of their own economic interests, is the next best thing: they have brought the rental kiosk operator to heel and effectively forced it to accept a 28-day window after Read More …
Can TV survive TV Everywhere?
One of The Media Wonk’s day jobs is as an analyst and curator at GigaOm Pro, the subscription-based offshoot of the popular GigaOm web site (to which I also occasionally contribute some blatherings). On Monday, the Pro site is issuing a new report The Media Wonk wrote (subscription required) on TV Everywhere, the effort by Read More …
Paying for Hulu is not about Hulu
The Twitter- and blogosphere got a case of the vapors yesterday over a report that News Corp. plans to throw up a pay wall around Hulu. Speaking at an industry event, newly installed News. Corp. president Chase Carey said, “I think a free model is a very difficult way to capture the value of our content. Read More …