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OTT & the Net New Effect 24 June 2015
The à la carte streaming video market is on a tear, but is the trend a result of fear over cord cutting or are there new revenue opportunities in the direct-to-consumer market? For premium programmers, over-the-top video is very much a double-edged sword. On the one hand, OTT video services are creating new competitors and …
Reinventing the Pay-TV Business 11 June 2015
Is the pay-TV model collapsing or just in need of a major upgrade? With the North American pay-TV industry now losing subscribers, OTT video services gaining rapidly and cord-cutting on the rise, the traditional television model is certainly under assault as never before. In the US, for example, the number of TV households without a …
Cord Cutting Over The Horizon : 5 Reasons Why OTT VOD Is Going To Rule 06 May 2015
A decade back, not owning a TV was because you could not afford it. Today, it’s the ‘in-thing’. Yes, and they call it ‘cord cutting’. Even more, it’s the most reasonable thing to do because you could watch TV anywhere, anytime you wanted without having a huge flat screen take up space on your …
Internet Bills To Rise As Cable TV Heads Into ‘Veritable Bloodbath’ 17 April 2015
Cord cutting, combined with more consumer-friendly rules from the CRTC, will send Canada’s telecoms into a TV-services “bloodbath” from which they will recover by raising prices for internet services, market observers say. The latest signs that cord-cutting is beginning to damage telcos’ bottom lines came this week with a new report showing that Canadians ditched …
Canadians eschew cable, satellite for Internet 15 April 2015
A new report says more Canadians are choosing to cancel their cable TV and satellite packages and there’s no sign of the migration slowing down. The Convergence Consulting Group says about 95,000 fewer households had a cable TV or satellite subscription in 2014. That’s a dramatic increase in the number of people without TV cable packages. …
Here’s proof people are cutting the cord on cable TV 06 April 2015
According to data from select major cable providers provided to Leichtman Research Group and charted by BI Intelligence, the gap between the number of internet subscribers and TV subscribers in the US is widening. In the final quarter of 2014, top cable companies saw more broadband subscribers but fewer pay TV customers, suggesting that people …
Netflix Now on Dish’s Hopper in First Big pay-TV Partnership 18 December 2014
Subscribers to Dish’s satellite TV service can now access Netflix right from their set-top box. The partnership is a major strategic coup for the online video service and reflects a new level of integration between online and traditional TV. Netflix will now appear for all Dish customers using a second-generation Hopper box and will feature the same user interface as …
