NFL Goes Dark on Dish in Distribution Dispute
The Dish satellite operation has over the years taken on HBO, Fox News Channel and Univision, blocking carriage for days, even weeks, until executives were satisfied with new contract terms. Now...
View ArticleDirecTV Sale Talk Boosts Shares of AT&T and Dish
AT&T and Dish Network shares rose in after-hours trading Friday following a report that AT&T is again talking to prospective buyers for DirecTV. The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that...
View ArticleNFL, Dish Strike New Carriage Contract After Nearly Three Months of Haggling
The NFL’s two big TV services are back with satellite-distributor Dish just in time for the football league’s next season to kick off. NFL Network and NFL RedZone went dark on Dish in mid-June after...
View ArticleNexstar Media, Dish Reach Impasse in Carriage Talks
The Dish satellite service is in the midst of another feud with a programmer. Nexstar Media, the nation’s largest owner of TV stations, and Dish have failed to come to terms on a new carriage contract,...
View ArticleMaking Addressable Accessible: ViacomCBS, Dish Execs Explain an Advertising...
No conversation is complete in the upfront marketplace this year without mention of addressable TV. Addressable TV is maturing as the go-to technology for matching marketing messages with the right...
View ArticleMedia’s March Massacre: COVID-19 Collapses Market Caps
March was a rough month for publicly traded companies, and media was no exception. Every single major company with media and entertainment options ended the month worth less than when the opening bell...
View ArticleCord-Cutting Q2 Preview: Here Comes the Cliff
The first quarter of 2020 was ugly for MVPD subscriber losses. There’s no question the second quarter will be even worse; it’s just a question of how bad it’s going to be. A record subscriber decline...
View ArticleCord-Cutting Q3 Preview: Lack of Federal Stimulus Will Hurt MVPDs
With Q3 2020 in the dust and earnings season fast approaching, VIP estimates that Q3 will see a subscriber decline of 1.75m among the public MVPDs: Altice USA, AT&T, Charter, Comcast, Dish and...
View ArticleCord-Cutting Q3 Review: Slower Decline but Still Bleak Prognosis
Q3 2020 saw the number of MVPD cord-cutters come in below 1 million for the first time since Q4 2018, blowing out VIP’s prediction that this quarter would be one of the worst on record given the...
View Article2020 Media Market Caps Point to Fragile Recovery
To say 2020 was a challenging year is to put it lightly. The COVID-19 pandemic altered the way of life for countless people around the world, and as a result companies in every single sector and...
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