Wednesday Notes
Sure enough CBS blacked out Dish customers Monday night. Dish responded with a press release that talked about over-the-air antennas. “In recent weeks, thousands of eligible DISH customers in CBS...
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No CBS On Sling TV – So What?
When Dish (probably) caved in late Thursday and signed a retransmission consent deal with CBS, that was as unexpected as a turkey sandwich on the day after Thanksgiving. It was never a matter of...
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More Evidence That Cable TV Is Dying
Copyright: Image by StockUnlimitedLast week, David Garrick at The San Diego Union-Tribune pointed out an impartial perspective on the decline of cable TV subscriptions. Cities have reported decreases...
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If you read nothing else, check out today’s article in Wired about the origins of Net Neutrality, written by the guy who coined the term, Tim Wu. The concept that bridges, railroads, and other common...
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NFL Opens Door To More Phone Streamers
As reported by Variety, FierceCable, and plenty of other outlets, Verizon announced today that it will pay the NFL more than $2 billion for another five years of streaming rights through the 2022-23...
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FitzyTV Adds Some Out-Of-Market Locals To Pay TV
If you’re a pay-TV subscriber, there’s another way to watch some of your channels away from home. FitzyTV provides a nice selection of free channels, including four possibly out-of-market local...
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Wherever: The Newest, Oldest OTT Service
Today, Wherever.TV put out a press release to announce that it had relaunched its service “after an extensive overhaul.” Considering that it’s been around since 2007, well before anyone coined the term...
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Here’s The Poster Child For My First Law Of TV
Last week, the Paramount Network debuted on pay TV services across the country. It has been through so many changes over the past 35 years that it’s the perfect example of Kilgore’s First Law of TV:...
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More Signs Of Cord-Cutting Acceleration
AT&T’s traditional pay-TV services lost over 1 million subscribers last year, according to its quarterly earnings report, relayed by FierceCable’s Daniel Frankel. The company pointed to a roughly...
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How Much Do You Want To Pay For The Olympics?
Speaking of 1992, as I was just a few days ago, in that same winter I participated in a survey about a special cable-TV package for the Olympics that was coming up that summer. Of the possible names, I...
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Are These Really “Cable-Cutting Problems”?
© paulmhill / DepositphotosHuffington Post’s Todd Van Luling ran an article yesterday about the 5 Cable-Cutting Problems You Probably Didn’t Think About. They’re worth considering, though most of those...
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Retransmission Cash Projected To Keep Climbing
For folks who built their business on serving the public for free, TV broadcasters sure are ramping up their work to get more money from viewers. A survey by the American Cable Association projected...
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When To Not Cut The Cord
As I prepare for the short Daylight Saving weekend (pictured), I notice that over at TechHive, Jared Newman addressed a topic I mention too rarely – some TV viewers are not good candidates for...
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How I Cut My Cord Without Severing It
SMART, Channel 276, is available in both America’s Top 120 and the Welcome Pack.Today, I finally did it! After months of family discussion and weeks of Dish-less viewing, I finally cut the cord on my...
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Locast Arrives On Dish’s Hopper
On a day when most of the electronic industry’s press is focused on the opening of CES, and when Dish Network announced plans to add Google Assistant to its Hopper receivers, Dish also quietly flipped...
View ArticleIs There A Secret Locast – Dish Link?
Writing in his regular column in TV News Check yesterday, Harry Jessell said something pretty close to what I said a couple of months ago. He wrote, “I don’t know it for a fact, but I know that it’s...
View ArticleHow Many New Pay-TV Virgins?
A press release from MRI-Simmons came out a couple of days ago, and several well-respected industry news sites dutifully reported its findings. Sorry, but I just don’t get it.Here’s the lead: “The...
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