Consumer Reports Finds Verizon FiOS, AT&T U-verse Highest Rated Among Bundled Telecom Providers While only 1.4% of consumers have cut the cord in the last two years, 7% of current pay-television subscribers are considering canceling their service, according to a Consumer Reports survey. In addition, for the third year in a row, Verizon FiOS and […]
DTV antennas Sales are at an all-time high in the US. It’s obvious that the public wants to watch free over-the-air broadcasts. That right was established by The Communications act of 1934. That act preserved that the broadcast airwaves belong to us, the people. The Federal Communications Commission was founded within The Communications Act of […]
Time Warner Chairman and CEO Jeff Bewkes Monday said the company might offer HBO’s service to consumers as a stand-alone product, rather than be tied to a pay-TV service subscription offering. It would be the first time in HBO’s nearly four decades of operation that it would be offered a la carte.
Mayor Monio of Boston is telling his fellow 15,000 to 20,000 Bostonians, which subscribe to Comcast’s basic cable package, that there is an alternative to the cable giant’s recent double-digit increase on that plan. OTA antennas. Read how the Mayor is informing the poor and elderly, who mainly receive basic cable, about antennas as an […]
Can over a half million ex- cable subscribers be wrong? I don’t think so. Numbers are the proof. And that number is staggering. Cable subscribers are walking away from the exorbitant pricing of cable companies. GigaOm’s Ryan Lawler tells the full story here:
FiOS TV Users Now Get ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU Online Verizon this week announced that they’ve expanded their licensing deal with Disney Corporation, and as a result will now offer more ESPN content streamed via broadband. In addition to the ESPN3 service (which requires that your ISP strikes special deals with ESPN to view) Verizon […]
Comcast has been viewed adoringly for their revenue growing by 7% last quarter as well as dividends increasing. One area that didn’t go up was the number of video consumers. About 135,000 fewer customers than last quarter. Netflix, along with HD antenna Television viewing, is package that many cord –cutters are using to walk away […]
It’s about to get a lot harder to turn off the TV. A torrent of television-ready gadgets will hit the store shelves this year, including dozens of phones and tablet computers that will allow viewers to watch movies and TV shows from just about anywhere. The proliferation of viewing devices — including a new generation […]
According to Jeff Ross, executive producer of Conan O’Brien’s Conan show on TBS, Microsoft has some big plans for Xbox Live and streaming television. There have been rumblings of Microsoft wooing several companies to acquire content for a pay-television service that would stream through the Xbox 360 console. Would original programming like something from a […]
Hulu CEO Jason Kilar gets down and dirty in a post disapproving of the old business practices of traditional television. Kilar states “Traditional TV has too many commercials”, and that cord cutters have confirmed that “users they will go to great lengths to pass up the advertising load” of traditional TV. Consumer viewers are on […]
MONEY QUOTE:
“Over-the-air television, around since the invention of TV, is far from dead and may even be on a comeback.”
In a recent article by nj.com, retailers in the Long Island area have sold out of over-the-air HD antennas, unable to replenish their inventory fast enough for customer demand. Because of the Cablevision carriage dispute affecting the area, thousands have turned out to stores in search for an antenna. Quoting Antennas Direct President Richard Schneider, […]
