AT&T Prepares To Flex Its OTT Muscles
Pressure is building on the networks to show more flexibility in carriage negotiations. Read More …
Tag: Viacom
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart’s legacy
In addition to their many other accomplishments, it’s hard to overstate the impact that Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have had on the evolution of the TV business over the past decade. As Stewart now follows Colbert from his late-night, Comedy Central post they leave a transformed industry in their wakes. Stewart and Colbert didn’t Read More …
YouTube Court: Viacom Dios
The lesson for content owners from yesterday’s smackdown of Viacom by U.S. District Court Judge Louis Stanton in its lawsuit against YouTube/Google should be clear (which, of course, is no guarantee it will be): stop bringing DMCA safe-harbor suits against online service providers. It’s not working, and it’s past time to get on with plan Read More …
An uneasy alliance on TV Everywhere
I have a guest post up this weekend over at GigaOm where I discuss some of the potential technical and anti-trust problems with Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes’ concept for TV Everywhere, particularly the amount of cooperation and information sharing among nominally competing service providers necessary to make the system work. But there are other Read More …