Verizon Takes Live ABC, Disney Internet TV Services
Verizon Communications is picking up more Internet video from the Mouse House, under an expanded pact that includes the recently launched Watch ABC service for live local TV in select markets. The...
View ArticleGoogle’s $35 Chromecast Internet TV Streamer Sells Out Online in Less Than 24...
Google either has an overnight success on its hands with the inexpensive and simple Chromecast — or it grossly underestimated demand for the $35 Internet video device, which plugs into the back of an...
View ArticleDirecTV, After Failed Hulu Bid, Seeks Another Internet TV Play
DirecTV made “an aggressive and attractive” for Hulu, but now that the online video site has been pulled off the table the satcaster is pursuing alternate plans for Internet-streaming subscription...
View ArticleCBS Blocks Time Warner Cable Internet Users from Full Episodes Online
The TV war between CBS and Time Warner Cable boiled over into online video Friday, as the Eye retaliated against the operator by blocking all TW Cable broadband customers from accessing full episodes...
View ArticleSony Inks Tentative Pact With Viacom for Internet TV Service: Report
Pay TV biz, which is showing signs of strain because of fast-rising programming costs, is being mobbed by new entrants eager to grab a slice of the pie. Sony is aiming to launch an Internet video...
View ArticleSony 4K TV Internet Video Service Will Bump Into Bandwidth Caps
Want to watch “Breaking Bad” in glorious Ultra HD, which offers four times the resolution of typical high-def? Today, getting the bleeding edge in home-video entertainment requires a pricier Sony 4K TV...
View ArticleWhy Cable Operators Might Be Secretly Rooting for Over-the-Top TV Services
Pay TV operators have been deeply skeptical that Intel, Sony, Google, Apple or anyone else can secure a critical mass of programming agreements for Internet TV services that challenge established...
View ArticleCox Pulls Plug on Internet TV Trial
After a three-month test, Cox Communications has ended the broadband-delivered subscription TV service it launched in Southern California that had used Fanhattan’s set-top box. As first reported by...
View ArticleIntel Pushes Internet TV Launch to 2014 as It Seeks Partners: Source
Intel’s launch of an over-the-top TV service that would compete with cable and satellite giants will be delayed until 2014, as the chipmaker scrambles to find partners to help it come to market,...
View ArticleScripps Free Ulive Internet Video Site Cuts Cable TV Cord
No pay TV subscription required: Scripps Networks Interactive is going direct-to-consumer with the launch of Ulive, an Internet video destination mixing full episodes and clips from shows on cablers...
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