MUMBAI: WPP has bagged InfoSum, the data collaboration cutting edge solutions provider. This acquisition, a proper “data-licious” deal, promises to supercharge WPP’s AI-driven marketing arsenal, giving...
MUMBAI: Pay TV is going through its travails. A second attempt to create one of the largest pay TV operators in the US fizzled out on...
MUMBAI: This is clearly a sign of the times: the impact that streaming is having on consumption of video by viewers at home. American DTH operators...
MUMBAI: The merger of India’s two direct-to-home (DTH) players, Dish TV and Videocon d2h partly played a role in the loss of over five million subscribers...
MUMBAI: The global TV subscriptions have slowed down. Around 100 top-ranking television services in the informitv Multiscreen Index, as compared to the 2016 corresponding period increase...
MUMBAI: The Essel group today announced that it has agreed with the Dhoot family that it will acquire an additional 4.95 per cent equity of Dish...
MUMBAI: The Essel group today announced that it has agreed with the Dhoot family that it will acquire an additional 4.95 per cent equity of Dish...
BENGALURU: AT&T acquired DIRECTV added 323,000 net subscribers and hence helped mitigate the company’s Entertainment and Internet Services Group (Entertainment) segment’s loss of 326,000 U-Verse subscribers...
BENGALURU: AT&T acquired DIRECTV added 323,000 net subscribers and hence helped mitigate the company’s Entertainment and Internet Services Group (Entertainment) segment’s loss of 326,000 U-Verse subscribers...
BENGALURU: AT&T Inc., (ATT), claimant to the largest Pay TV services title in the world reported a net QoQ decline of 26,000 subscribers for the quarter...
BENGALURU: AT&T Inc., (ATT), claimant to the largest Pay TV services title in the world reported a net QoQ decline of 26,000 subscribers for the quarter...
BENGALURU: The claimant to the world’s largest Pay TV service provider title in terms of subscriber’s, AT&T reported 26000 net domestic video subscriber adds to its...
MUMBAI: The Charter Communications, Inc – Time Warner Cable, Inc merger is facing a lot of opposition from broadcasters. The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) has filed...
MUMBAI: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has granted the approval of the transfer of control of licenses and authorizations from DirecTV to AT&T Inc. The...
MUMBAI: DirecTV is expanding its satellite fleet in both the US and Latin America with the dual launch of two new spacecraft that will significantly increase...
NEW DELHI: Twenty-two new channels have been added to DirecTV’s mobile app making it possible for American subscribers to see more channels out of home on...
MUMBAI: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has proposed modifying satellite television market rules to enable satellite subscribers to gain access to in-state news and other programming...
MUMBAI: The worldwide pay TV market grew at a steady rate of four per cent in 2014 to reach 923.5 million subscribers according to a recent...
NEW DELHI: The broadcasting giant DirecTV is facing a lawsuit from American Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleging that the pay TV operator has deliberately misled millions of subscribers about...
NEW DELHI: The controversial acquisition of DirecTV by AT&T has received the necessary approval from Mexico’s Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT). Earlier, AT&T received approval in...
BENGALURU: DirecTv announced its Q3-2014 results (quarter ended 30 September 2014, current quarter). The company reported 4.8 per cent growth in its US segment’s monthly average...
NEW DELHI: Even as Brazil has been given the go-ahead to acquire DirectTV by American wireless carrier AT&T for $48.5 billion, the deal is facing regulatory...
MUMBAI: DirecTV, one of the world’s leading providers of digital television entertainment has ordered an additional 20 episodes of the critically acclaimed premier of Kingdom. It...
NEW DELHI: Brazil’s Agencia Nacional de Telecomunicacoes (ANATEL) and Trinidad & Tobago have given approval to American telecom service provider AT&T for the proposed $48.5 billion acquisition of...
MUMBAI: A new report by Moody’s Investors Service claims that value propositions for cable providers are changing as broadband becomes even more necessary than TV. The...
BENGALURU: Both the companies have issued official statements about the offer and rejection. Twenty-first Century Fox (Fox) issued a short, cryptic three sentence statement –“21st Century...
NEW DELHI: The American telecom giant AT&T has decided to take over pay TV brand DirecTV for $48.5 billion, but will sell its 73 million publicly listed shares...
MUMBAI: The American broadcasting company, ABC, has announced that it will start restricting access to complete episodes of new TV shows to customers of pay TV...
MUMBAI: Dish Network and DirecTV subscribers will have to gear up to shell out more for using their services. Come 2014 and DirecTV’s base ‘entertainment’ package will...
MUMBAI: The first NYC Television Week, presented by Broadcasting & Cable, Multichannel News, Next TV, and the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), drew more than 1500...
GOA: After a fruitful day one of IDOS 2013, day two kicked off with a presentation by Media Partners Asia executive director Vivek Couto on ‘Sports...
MUMBAI: DirecTV has entered into a partnership with the award-winning screenwriter Neil LaBute (The Shape of Things, In the Company of Men) to produce a set of...
MUMBAI: CBGB, a film about the New York nightclub where US punk rock music was born, is to premiere on DirecTV, the satellite company announced recently. ...
NEW DELHI: As NFL fans gear up for football season, they will find an off-the-field distraction in “Football on Your Phone,” a new DirecTV spoof starring...
NEW DELHI: Highly addressable advertising has been a long-standing plan for the TV business, which wants to rival the ad targeting available online, and the biggest...
MUMBAI: Univision Communications, the leading media company serving Hispanic America, has entered into a comprehensive multi-year agreement with the nation‘s leading satellite provider, DirecTV. The agreement...
MUMBAI: 3net, the joint venture 3D network from Discovery, Sony and Imax, has reached 40 million US households even as it approaches its second anniversary on...
MUMBAI: More than three million Cablevision customers may start 2013 without receiving 17 Viacom cable network channels as a result of the two parties‘ dispute over...
MUMBAI: Leading US pay-TV platform DirecTV has entered into an agreement with the new Time Warner Cable SportsNet and Deportes to make the Lakers and other...
MUMBAI: National TV sports in the US generated $10.9 billion in advertising expenditure last year, compared to $10.3 billion one year prior, according to Nielsen’s State...
MUMBAI: Comcast has sued DirecTV for an alleged fake NFL Sunday Ticket advertising. The cable company has claimed that the satellite company is fleecing consumers by...
MUMBAI: British Telecom’s (BT) media and broadcast division has inked an agreement with news broadcaster NDTV to be its global network supplier. This will enable the...
MUMBAI: US pay TV service provider DirecTV and researcgh firm Nielsen have entered into an agreement to test the development of information. This will enable them...
MUMBAI: DirecTV’s South Asian advertising agency Elephant Advertising, a wholly owned subsidiary of CineMaya Media Group, has unveiled a multi-media KBC advertising campaign across print, television,...
MUMBAI: Asian Television Network International Limited (ATN) Canada’s South Asian Broadcaster has launched ATN-Cricket Plus. This is a sports channel with prime focus on cricket. ATN...
MUMBAI: The bidding for the audio-visual rights for International Cricket Council (ICC) conducted events from late 2007 to 2015 is certainly not going according to the...
MUMBAI: Anytime, Asia Pacific’s leading Video on-Demand (VoD) channel, today announced that NDS, the leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, is the newest member...
MUMBAI: Taj TV has reached an agreement with US pay TV platform DirecTV to produce its new Cricket Plus Channel which goes on air later this...
MUMBAI: After Japan, it’s the turn of the UK for Star India channels to spread their wings. Star India has entered into a syndication deal with...
MUMBAI: Liberty Media Corp. said it would probably swap its 19.1-percent stake in News Corp. for News Corp.’s 38.3 per cent controlling interest in DirecTV. Liberty...