With the digital, global, avalanche of content ever growing and never slowing, discoverability will be the number one challenge in the video on demand industry’s future, according to panellists on a forward-looking TV panel at the National Association of Broadcasters … Continue reading
How much value do consumers place on the ability to see a film at home when it’s still playing in the theaters? Not as much as Hollywood would like, it appears. According to a recent survey by RBC Capital Markets, 87% … Continue reading
Cord cutting, combined with more consumer-friendly rules from the CRTC, will send Canada’s telecoms into a TV-services “bloodbath” from which they will recover by raising prices for internet services, market observers say. The latest signs that cord-cutting is beginning to … Continue reading
We’ve heard a lot about the battle between HBO and video on demand service Netflix in recent months, prompted by HBO’s move to offer its own Netflix-like Web service. But Netflix’s bumper Q1 earnings yesterday gave CEO Reed Hastings a … Continue reading
FCC chairman Tom Wheeler courted broadcasters’ support for the FCC’s Open Internet rules in his keynote address to the National Assn. of Broadcasters Wednesday, comparing the government’s plans with “must carry” rules broadcasters have advocated and supported. “Broadcasters have always been concerned about … Continue reading