Arris reported third-quarter revenue that was essentially flat year over year at nearly $1.73 billion, with its pay TV set-top sales declining, but the vendor enjoyed strong network sales built around its E6000 converged edge router business. http://ift.tt/2xOfFbl Daniel Frankel
Thursday, November 2, 2017
Arris reports flat Q3 with soft set-top sales, but E6000 networking business is a bright spot
NatGeo Uses Baseball To Promote Iraq War Miniseries
Does frequent on-air promotion of upcoming TV shows still bring in audiences? That’s a key question as the premiere approaches for NatGeo’s ambitious dramatization of the Iraq War, “The Long Road
Home.” http://ift.tt/2z9NN32
FCC Decides Local TV News Stations Don't Need Offices In Local Communities
If you have a specific local market TV or radio studio to report your local TV news, you don’t need it anymore, per the FCC. But no worries — media owners won’t necessarily be closing up shop anytime
soon. The future is another matter. http://ift.tt/2iYfrfu
New Street: AT&T’s fiber build-out cut into Charter and Comcast’s growth—but that won’t last
New Street Research issued a report tracking AT&T’s fiber build-out efforts and said those moves have cut into the growth of Charter and Comcast. However, the firm predicted that the cable companies will eventually be able to rekindle their momentum in high-speed broadband and will “massively outpace the growth of telcos.” http://ift.tt/2gWsYQn Mike Dano
Q&A—CableLabs’ McKinney on Full Duplex, coherent optics and the ‘random choice’ of coaxial cable
DENVER—Former Hewlett-Packard executive Phil McKinney talked about CableLabs’ latest research efforts in our Cable-Tec Expo sit-down. http://ift.tt/2h6OpSB Daniel Frankel
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
YouTube TV expands to Roku, Apple TV, Xbox, but shuns Amazon
Virtual pay TV service YouTube TV will launch apps for Roku, Apple TV, Xbox One and several other devices. But thanks to a long-running dispute between YouTube parent Google and Amazon, the service will continue to shun Amazon OTT devices. http://ift.tt/2z3MeWK Daniel Frankel
Russia Tapped Into U.S. Social Media Ads — Is TV Next?
From a marketing point of view, the term “reach” has significant meaning, as a key element of a media platform’s ability to deliver ad exposure to a set amount of consumers. http://ift.tt/2zopaTe
Hollywood House Of Cards: Sexual Harassment In The News
Sexual harassment has been a huge topic ever since the allegations against Harvey Weinstein began trickling into the news, and then became an avalanche. http://ift.tt/2h4dM7d
Mediacom revenue up 3.8% in Q3 on growing residential broadband and business services
Mediacom’s third-quarter 8-K filings continued to tell an all-too-familiar cable-industry story of growing residential broadband and business services revenue streams amid declining video metrics. http://ift.tt/2z4xsim Daniel Frankel
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Harmonic says 2 Tier 1 operators have purchased its virtualized CableOS platform
Harmonic says two of the world’s top five cable companies have purchased its software-based CCAP solution, CableOS, and that 10 have the product in field trials. http://ift.tt/2gZul4l Daniel Frankel
Cable News Sees Shifting Viewership, Revenues Post-Election
Cable TV news networks have been virtually the only TV networks to see regular overall growth of viewership for the better part of 12 months now. But for September, Fox News witnessed a somewhat
eye-opening 17% drop in advertising from the same month the year before. http://ift.tt/2ijbhdN
Thursday, September 21, 2017
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No View For You! Upcoming Shows Unavailable To TV Critics
It may just be coincidental, but for the first time in memory, a handful of upcoming new high-profile TV shows are not being made available to TV columnists and critics in advance of their air dates. http://ift.tt/2xrAfka
Comcast’s Cohen: Sinclair-Tribune merger would help and hurt us
The proposed $3.9 billion megamerger of station-owning giants Sinclair Broadcasting and Tribune Media will put upward pressure on broadcast retransmission fees that will be “good and bad” for Comcast, the cable company’s top regulatory executive said. http://ift.tt/2fBAks3 Daniel Frankel