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Pay-TV didn’t really take off until the 1980s, when federal regulators gave the industry more elbow room and cable companies learned to bundle channels into fat, ...
Orby TV, an L.A.-based startup led by former Starz executive Michael Thornton as CEO, has launched a pay-as-you-go satellite television service with free local channels and select cable networks ...
Pay TV Could Face Even Bigger Subscriber Losses Amid Virus Crisis. With people across the U.S. stuck in their homes amid the coronavirus pandemic, what will the impact be on cord-cutting?
Pay TV operators should take a lesson from manufacturers using IoT sensors to track the functioning and performance of their engines, farm equipment, railroad cars, ...
A new MoffettNathanson report finds that declines in traditional pay TV aren’t being made up by slower growth in streaming-TV bundles--tearing open a hole in the market for subscription and ad ...
Internet-based pay-TV will bring some consumer perks, but the biggest beneficiary may not be who you think it is - or want it to be. Joan E. Solsman was CNET's senior media reporter, covering the ...
Since the pay-TV industry's peak in the first quarter of 2012, traditional service providers have lost more than 7 million customers while internet-delivered offerings have gained more than 3.7 ...
Even with the decline in pay-TV homes, that ecosystem still boasts roughly 85 million subscribers. Netflix, the 800-pound gorilla in the streaming space, has just over 60 million customers in the U.S.
30% of pay-TV non-subscribers last had a pay-TV service within the past 3 years, 36% last had a pay-TV service >3 years ago, and 34% never had a pay-TV service. 54% of pay-TV non-subscribers that ...
The largest pay-TV providers in the U.S. lost about 1.73 million net subscribers in the second quarter, according to Leichtman Research.