
DirecTV
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7 Big Media Trends of 2019 (So Far), From Streaming Fatigue to DirecTV Now’s Face Plant
By Sean Burch and Matt Lopez | June 20, 2019 @ 12:40 PM”Soon we’ll all start looking at our credit card bills and start saying, ‘Why am I subscribing to all of these services?“” Paul Hardart, a former Warner Bros. executive, told TheWrap
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Roku Says Customers Watched 9 Billion Hours of Content in Q1, Stock Pops 7%
By Sean Burch | May 8, 2019 @ 1:14 PMViewers watch 3.4 hours of content per day on average, according to the popular device maker
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Altice USA Acquires Digital News Outlet Cheddar for $200 Million
By Matt Lopez | April 30, 2019 @ 9:39 AMCheddar CEO and founder Jon Steinberg also named president of Altice’s News 12 channel and i24News
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AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson Expects NFL Sunday Ticket to Remain Exclusively on DirecTV
By Tony Maglio | April 24, 2019 @ 7:29 AMSo don’t worry too much about that whole NFL Network/RedZone blackout
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What the Hell Is a vMVPD? The Modern Streaming Market Explained
By Matt Lopez | April 2, 2019 @ 12:25 PMUnraveling the mystery of the alphabet soup of streaming acronyms: AVOD, SVOD, TVOD and vMVPD
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Streaming Officially Bigger Than Cable and Satellite TV in US, Research Shows
By Sean Burch | March 20, 2019 @ 9:02 AMNew Deloitte study shows that 69 percent of Americans now pay for at least one streaming service
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Cord-Cutting Doubled in 2018, New Study Says
By Sean Burch | March 7, 2019 @ 8:01 AMNearly 3 million people dropped their pay-TV providers last year, with DirecTV and Dish Network hit the hardest
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Hulu Hits 2 Million Live TV Customers, Passes DirecTV Now as 2nd-Biggest Live Streamer After Sling
By Sean Burch | March 1, 2019 @ 10:43 AMHulu’s gains come as DirecTV Now has lost nearly 300,000 subscribers in the last year
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7 Things We Learned in Tech World This Week, From Apple’s Blunder to Elon Musk’s Pivot to Boring
By Sean Burch | February 1, 2019 @ 12:52 PMApple’s FaceTime blunder shows it has its own privacy concerns, while Facebook’s year of bad press did nothing to scare users away
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AT&T Posts Record DirecTV Now Losses, Misses Q4 Revenue Estimates Despite WarnerMedia’s Strength
By Sean Burch | January 30, 2019 @ 4:30 AMDirecTV Now lost 267,000 subscribers during Q4 and finished 2018 with less customers than it began the year with
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Super Bowl Parties 2019: TheWrap’s Ultimate Guide to the Hottest Invites in Atlanta (Updating)
By Debbie Emery | January 24, 2019 @ 4:14 PMSports Illustrated returns the party scene, with DirecTV, Wheels Up, Maxim, Bootsy Bellows, Rolling Stone and more taking over The ATL ahead of Super Bowl LIII
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Why Streaming Costs Americans 150 Percent More Than 3 Years Ago – and It’s Only Going to Get Worse
By Sean Burch | January 24, 2019 @ 2:43 PM”There’s always the threat that once they hook you, they’ll raise the prices later,“ NYU business professor Peter Newman says
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YouTube TV Expands Nationwide Ahead of Super Bowl
By Sean Burch | January 23, 2019 @ 6:00 AMYouTube’s $40 per month live TV service adds 95 new markets on Wednesday
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How to Live Stream the Cowboys-Redskins Game for Free
By Tim Molloy | November 22, 2018 @ 12:43 PMThanksgiving NFL matchup starts at 1:30 PT, 4:30 ET on Fox — and for free online
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Saban Films Acquires US Rights to Michael Caine’s ‘King of Thieves’
By Beatrice Verhoeven | October 16, 2018 @ 10:30 AMSir Tom Courtenay, Jim Broadbent and Sir Michael Gambon also star in James Marsh’s film