Satellite TV Industry News
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AMC: Dish Drop Tied to Voom
By Mike Reynolds and Todd Spangler, May 7, 2012Soon after a New York appellate court ruled that ongoing litigation over the now-defunct Voom HD service should head to trial, Dish Network has said it plans to remove Voom parent AMC Networks’ channels from its air. More
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Cable TV Subs Fell 5% In 2011: NielsenBy Todd Spangler, May 4, 2012U.S. cable operators lost about 2.9 million video subscribers in 2011, shrinking the overall pay-TV market by 1.5% even as telcos packed on 1.1 million and satellite TV providers were roughly flat at 280,000 net adds, according to Nielsen data. More
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Univision Debuts 24-Hour News Network on DishLatinoMike Reynolds, May 4, 2012Univision Communications has launched a new 24-hour news service with Dish Network. More
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Updated: AMC: Dish Threatening To Drop Networks Following Ruling In Voom CaseMike Reynolds & Todd Spangler, May 4, 2012
With a New York appellate court ruling that ongoing litigation over the now-defunct Voom HD service should head to trial, Dish Network is threatening to remove AMC Networks from its air -- but the satellite operator said its decision to drop AMC channels is due to viewership declines and the programmer's "high renewal price."
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Multiplatform TV: Kessler: HBO Go Rolls to Kindle Fire with New Season Of 'True Blood'Mike Reynolds, May 3, 2012HBO Go, the premium network's authenticated streaming service, will go to Amazon's Kindle Fire with the start of the upcoming season of True Blood. More
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Why ‘TV Everywhere’
Still Isn't EverywhereMCN Staff, April 30, 2012
How fast should conventional TV move to Internet and mobile platforms, and on what terms?
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DirecTV Elevates Executive TrioJohn Eggerton, April 30, 2012DirecTV Monday promoted three execs, highlighted by Paul Guyardo being named chief revenue and marketing officer. More
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Turner: The First-Mover Advantage? By Todd Spangler, April 30, 2012No ad-supported network programmer has pushed as hard on TV Everywhere as Turner Broadcasting System. With an evangelical zeal, the company has struck authentication deals with each of the major pay TV distributors, with the notable exception of Time Warner Cable. Coleman Breland, chief operating officer of Turner Network Sales, spoke last week with Multichannel News technology editor Todd Spangler. More
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Rupert Murdoch Faces Leveson Inquiry in U.K.by George Winslow, April 25, 2012In testimony before the Leveson inquiry Wednesday in London, News Corp. chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch once again expressed regrets over the role that his newspapers played in the voicemail-hacking scandal, More
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Harmonic Satellite And Telco Sales Plunge In Q1By Todd Spangler, April 24, 2012Video-equipment vendor Harmonic posted a 4% dip in total revenue for the first quarter of 2012, with a 26% decline in sales in its satellite and telco segment unable to offset relatively strong performance in its cable business. More
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Groups Ask FCC To Stop Clock On Verizon/Cable Spectrum DealJohn Eggerton, April 24, 2012Sprint/Nextel, DirecTV and public advocacy groups critical of the proposed sale of cable spectrum to Verizon Wireless have joined with the Communications Workers of America to ask the FCC to stop the clock on its merger review, citing software problems with opening some of the documents filed by Verizon and cable ops. More
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James Murdoch Denies Improper Lobbying in BSkyB TakeoverGeorge Winslow (Broadcasting & Cable), April 24, 2012James Murdoch faced tough questions over from the Leveson inquiry Tuesday in London over News Corp.'s lobbying during the failed BSkyB takeover, his close ties to British politicians and the company's involvement in illegally hacking into voicemails. More
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EchoStar Shutting Down U.S. Cable Set-Top UnitBy Todd Spangler, April 23, 2012EchoStar Technologies is pulling the plug on efforts to sell set-top boxes to U.S. cable operators and will cease development of its Aria platform immediately, citing lack of sales traction, the company confirmed Monday. More
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Startup NimbleTV To Build Set-Top Farms For Internet TV PlayBy Todd Spangler, April 23, 2012
NimbleTV, a 15-employee startup in New York City, is promising to sign up anyone anywhere in the world for pay-TV service locally, and then deliver live and recorded programming over the Internet to a slew of devices -- an approach the company maintains is perfectly legal.
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Earnings Forecast: Higher ExpectationsBy Mike Farrell, April 23, 2012Time Warner Cable is scheduled to kick off the first-quarter earnings season next week, a period that several analysts hope will be a continuation of the positive financial and subscriber growth metrics of the fourth quarter. More
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DirecTV's Sunday Ticket Game Plan: Add More Subs Via Lower Price PointMike Reynolds, April 20, 2012After scoring its best quarter with subscriber growth in seven years behind its push in 2011, DirecTV is raising the promotional ante further by lowering the pricing on its 2012 offering of the NFL Sunday Ticket. More
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NAB: Intelsat's Galaxy 19 Nears 250 Intl. ChannelsGeorge Winslow (Broadcasting & Cable), April 19, 2012Growing demand for international content in the U.S. has helped push the number of international channels up to nearly 250 on Intelsat's Galaxy 19 satellite, which provides complete coverage of the continental United States, the Caribbean, Alaska and Hawaii. More
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Dish Gets Hopped Up On PandoraBy Todd Spangler, April 19, 2012Dish Network has added the Pandora streaming music service for subscribers using its Hopper multiroom DVR system, for no additional charge. More
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NBCU to Live Stream All Sports from London Olympics as Part of 'TV Everywhere' PlayMike Reynolds, April 18, 2012NBCUniversal is upping the streaming ante for coverage of the London Olympics. More
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FCC Wireless Spectrum NPRM Teed Up for CommentJohn Eggerton, April 17, 2012Interested parties will have until the beginning of June to weigh in on whether the FCC should loosen its rules on mobile satellite spectrum to allow for terrestrial use, a move that would open the door to allowing Dish to deliver mobile wireless broadband. More
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