Shhh… do you hear that? It is the sound of every cable company executive weeping over the announcement of our latest gadget—the all new DB8e HDTV antenna. But really, who could blame them? The DB8e is truly the first of its kind. It will allow people who live in challenging environments to target transmitting towers […]
Why pay $80 a month for cable, when you can meet Prince Charming for just $7.99? We all know that Prince Charming would not need to ask for a long term commitment, because he realizes that if it is a good relationship. You will never leave. Cable companies were hoping to make you feel like you had […]
Tuesday, November 27, 2012, 10:18 AM ET | Posted by Will Richmond New research from The Diffusion Group forecasts that the number of “pay-TV refugees” – U.S. homes subscribing to broadband, but not to pay-TV services – will increase 58%, from 10.9 million in 2012 to 17.2 million in 2017. Pay-TV refugees consist of both […]
Michelle Clancy | 17-11-2012 Over-the-top appears to be coming of age, as consumption hits critical mass, the revenue opportunity expands and the business model continues to work its way into mainstream carrier tactics. The research into the area is coalescing: the OTT market is set to be worth $37 billion by 2017, according to new […]
By Rick Aristotle Munarriz, The Motley Fool Posted 6:00AM 11/10/12 | One thing is becoming clear as cable companies and satellite television providers shell out their latest quarterly financials: Americans are fed up with their ever-growing bills for premium TV. With the exception of DirecTV’s (DTV) — which gained 67,000 net subscribers during the quarter […]
Michelle Clancy | 12-11-2012 The North American pay-TV industry’s subscriber numbers in the third quarter continued to deliver bad news, with subscriber totals across segments missing targets. Overall, Sanford C Bernstein’s Craig Moffett said that operators, including privately-held ones, lost a combined 127,000 subscribers in the quarter. Analysts say that the continuing softness will drive […]
If anyone needed any convincing about the power of web TV, the recent news that YouTube now serves more search queries than the Yahoo and Live search engines has certainly emphasised the point. Moreover, this reflects the continuing dominance of Google, which owns the video streaming site. In November, YouTube received 2.79 billion search queries, […]
Tom Butts Editor-in-Chief tbutts@nbmedia.com I’m not a fan of tired ole clichés but humor me on this one. I’m only going to say it once: to paraphrase an old saying, “rumors of the demise of broadcast television have been greatly exaggerated.” We’ve seen the signs for months, even years. Sales of over the air antennas […]
Michelle Clancy ©RapidTVNews | 20-06-2012 Attention cord-cutting enthusiasts: a full 17.8% of US TV households, or 20.7 million of them, now rely on free, over-the-air reception for broadcast TV, according to a study by GfK Media. That translates to 46 million to 54 million Americans out of the nation’s 300 million citizens. Five years ago, […]
CNET> Reviews> TV and Home Theater by Matthew Moskovciak May 5, 2012 10:59 AM PD Canceling your cable subscription can require sacrifices, but sometimes the cord-cutting viewing experience is actually better than cable. Amazon Instant is one of the best ways for cable-cutters to catch up on TV shows. (Credit: Matthew Moskovciak/CNET) When people ask […]
Antennas Direct and DSI Systems announce a partnership to distribute over-the-air television antennas. St. Louis, MO (PRWEB) April 30, 2012 Antennas Direct, the leader in over-the-air television antenna technology, and DSI Systems, the nation’s largest distributor of satellite and consumer electronic equipment, announce a strategic partnership to distribute over-the-air television antennas to retailers and integrators […]
PORT WASHINGTON, NEW YORK, April 10, 2012 According to The NPD Group, a leading market research company, the average pay-TV subscription for basic pay-TV service and premium-TV channels in the U.S. reached $86 in 2011. As TV program licensing fees have risen, pay TV monthly rates have also grown an average of 6 percent per […]
