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Sling TV, Dish Network’s Internet TV service designed for cord cutters, is now available on the Android TV platform, the company is announcing this morning, including Google’s Nexus Player. This addition expands the service’s already fairly extensive lineup of devices it supports, which today includes Roku and Roku TV, Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick, Read More …
Verizon’s summer launch of an over-the-top video service will focus on live programming, including news, sports and related entertainment programming, CFO Fran Shammo told an investor group. Speaking May 19 at JPMorgan Global Technology, Media and Telecom Conference in Boston, Shammo said the unnamed service would be a departure from TV Everywhere platforms that require Read More …
Microsoft plans to make Xbox One the centerpiece of every consumer’s living room with the launch of the Hauppauge TV Tuner. The small adapter connects an HDTV antenna to an Xbox One, which in turn is able to decipher standard over-the-air (OTA) broadcast TV signals. This means Xbox One users will now be able watch Read More …
Linear TV viewing saw a double-digit audience dip for the week of May 4-11, the fifth straight week that viewership dropped by 10% or more. The Bernstein Research audience tracker said year-over-year viewership for the week slipped 11%, according to the researcher.The biggest hit was a whopping 22% audience drop for Kids cable network viewership Read More …
The skyrocketing expectations, and accompanying stock price, are in large part due to Netflix’s rapid expansion abroad—in particular, reports since Friday that Netflix is in talks to expand into a huge new market: China. But as all conquerors know far too well, the path to world domination doesn’t come without resistance. Despite its aggressive growth, Read More …