Latest articles by Daniel Frankel
TV in 2024: Change to the Business Further Accelerates
Year-End Review From rapidly evolving viewer tastes to a transformative election, change is now a constant for an already disrupted industry
NAB Show: FAST Mavens Talk Saturation, Monetization and Content Migration
Panelists: Streaming’s quickest-growing segment is headed to an inflection point
Traffic Growth Decelerates on Flagging 4K Demand, More Efficient Video Encoding
One streaming service says that less than 2% of its viewing time is devoted to 4K/UHD video
Netflix Meets With Google About Ads
Discussions with FAANG rival come as Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos preps anticipated appearance at Cannes Lions late this week
Amazon Reportedly Set to Festoon Its Brand onto Smart TVs
TVs manufactured by TCL and other makers could be available as soon as October
DirecTV and Dish in Terminal Orbit? Their Satellites Are About to Age Out
The two legacy satellite TV operators face an existential crisis that even a merger won't fix
Cord Cutting Improved by Over 22% in Q1 for Top Operators Thanks to Slower DirecTV Blood Loss
The top five publicly traded pay-TV companies still lost nearly 1.6 million customers in the first three months of 2021
Charter’s Spectrum TV App Blackout on Roku Reaches 3-Month Mark
Contract impasse is still preventing platform users from downloading the No. 2 U.S. cable operator’s video app
Cord Cutting Nearly Doubled for the Big Four U.S. Pay-TV Providers in 2020
Yeah, we already knew it was bad, but still … Comcast, AT&T, Charter and Dish collectively lost nearly 5.1 million customers last year vs. 2.6 million in 2019
Netflix, Hulu, Disney Sued Again Over Cable Franchise Fees
Three Georgia municipalities join growing a national fight to make streaming companies pay the same 5% regulatory bill as cable companies
Harmonic Touts Another CableOS Customer Win: Taiwan’s TWT Digital Communication
Virtualized CCAP solution deployed to operator with 500,000 residential passings
T-Mobile to Shutter Legacy Pay-TV Service ‘TVision Home’
Fat-bundle service, launched after the 2018 purchase of Layer3 TV, will succumb to recently launched virtual MPVD platform, which also confusingly branded 'TVision'
SCTE and CableLabs Set to Merge
Society of Cable Technology Engineers will vote on rollup, which has already been approved by consortium CableLabs
Netflix’s 2021 Subscriber Growth Will ‘Slow Substantially,’ Analyst Predicts
Forget what happened in 2020, Rosenblatt Securities warns investors to get ready for hard times
Comcast Patches Vulnerability That Could Turn X1 Remote into Secret Listening Device
Israeli security company figured out how to hack the XR11 Voice Remote
Netflix Price Hike ‘Probable in the Near- to Mid-term,’ Analyst Says
Jefferies thinks increase could add as much as $1 billion to streaming company’s fiscal revenue
‘SkyBoxe’ Hub Gets FCC’s OK
All-in-one fixed wireless device would replace modem, Wi-Fi router and set-top
SVOD Subscriptions Grew by 28% in 2019
The average SVOD subscriber paid for 1.59 subscription streaming services last year, Digital TV Research says
Universal and AMC Strike Deal for Premium VOD Streaming
Agreement means studio can debut $20 rental version of movies just 17 days after their theatrical premiere
T-Mobile TVision Device Will Be an AirTV Mini Dongle?
Uncarrier's new Android TV-based OTT hardware could be the same SEI Robotics HDMI gadget that’s used by Dish Network
Peacock Doesn’t Support HDMI Connection to External Monitor
Users lament yet another living room viewing restriction for new streaming service, which already can’t be watched on Roku or Amazon Fire TV
