Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Comcast’s Roberts: Pay-TV business merely in a ‘competitive patch’
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts used his pulpit at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference Tuesday to calm investors following a panic caused last week when the company revealed that it could report as many as 150,000 video subscriber losses for the third quarter. http://ift.tt/2x0IamC Daniel Frankel
Do Consumers Want A Cable Network-Only Digital TV Service?
Philo, a new service of live, linear digital networks, will be cable-only with no sports channels. Monthly subscriptions are expected to be less than $20 a month; specific channel lineups have not yet
been disclosed. http://ift.tt/2y5vScY
Hillary's Turn: In A TV Book Tour, Clinton Has Scores To Settle
Hillary Clinton reemerges this month on the talk-show circuit in support of a new book one year after the final weeks of the presidential campaign that ended in her defeat by Donald Trump. http://ift.tt/2h2iTVh
Arris unveils Android TV-powered 4K set-tops at IBC
With Android TV gaining stature in the OTT market, Arris will unveil a trio of UHD/HDR set-tops at IBC in Amsterdam this week powered by the Google technology. http://ift.tt/2joU9qU Daniel Frankel
Charter teams with Samsung on 5G as MSO’s top wireless executive addresses Mobile World Congress
Charter Communications and Samsung will conduct lab and field trials evaluating 5G using 28 GHz spectrum and 4G LTE by using small cells and 3.5 GHz (CBRS) spectrum. http://ift.tt/2wXelWJ Daniel Frankel