Telco TV

Adds 312,000 lower-margin DirecTV Now subs in Q1, extending total to 1.46M

Rising cost of pay TV drives OTT popularity

‘Couch Potato’ report estimates that OTT revenue, subs will continue to gain ground on traditional TV

CEO, other execs offer detailed rundown of Arris’s business, product strategy at Investor Day

OTT strategies driving the need for scale

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Cable operators losses grow, ending three-year deceleration

Rollout ties into MobiTV’s commercial agreement with the NCTC

Nation's six largest cable ops lost about 660,000 video subs last year

Cummings, Connolly cite Sessions's refusal to address issue, Gowdy's silence on seeking info

‘Big 5’ OTTs ended 2017 with 4.6M subs, but virtual MVPD biz remains a ‘truly lousy’ one  

Programmer is in talks with other OTT providers, hints at direct-to-consumer offering

Growth still behind 2016, but cable, telco TV providers improve losses

Operator upgrading video product using Ericsson’s new cloud-powered platform

Dow falls 1,100 points in single worst daily decline; cable stocks falter

Helps to offset loss of 207,000 U-verse TV and DirecTV satellite TV subs

Video losses, slower broadband adds not as bad as anticipated

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Fios internet adds slow to 47K in period, but helps Fios segment revenues rise 2.3%

Will use Ericsson’s cloud-based MediaFirst platform to deliver multiscreen services