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Charter nabs Bright House in latest pay-TV deal
2015-03-31 21:56:32| Telecom - Topix.net
Companies want to merge as costs for channels like ESPN have shot up, while their video subscribers have dipped and online video providers like Netflix become more popular. Combining gives them more negotiating power against programmers such as The Walt Disney Co.
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Forecasts mixed on two pay-TV mergers
2015-03-08 19:49:56| Telecom - Topix.net
Eleven months after AT&T Inc. announced its $48.5 billion deal for DirecTV that would create a substantially bigger pay-TV company than Comcast Corp., the deal seems to be cruising smoothly through Washington, while Comcast's $45 billion deal for Time Warner Cable Inc. has faced a public backlash. The deals - Comcast announced its in February and AT&T disclosed its in May - have been a surprising tale of two giant telecom mergers.
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U.S. pay-TV providers lost 125,000 subscribers in 2014
2015-03-03 19:30:16| Digital TV News
Leichtman Research Group (LRG) has found that the thirteen largest pay-TV providers in the US -- representing about 95% of the market -- lost about 125,000 net video subscribers in 2014. Annual net pay-TV losses in 2014 were comparable to 2013, when the same top pay-TV providers lost about 95,000 subscribers.
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IPTV growth drives pay-TV market to 924.4m subscribers in 2014 - report
2015-02-13 01:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
IPTV market grew by 14% in 2014, says ABI Research.
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Over 60% of U.S. payTV subscribers have a DVR
2015-01-02 20:00:13| Digital TV News
Research from Leichtman Research Group (LRG) has found that 76% of US households have a DVR, subscribe to Netflix, or use on-Demand (VOD) from a cable or Telco provider -- with 26% of households using two of the services, and 11% using all three.
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