May 13, 2013
Pay-TV Sector Posts Worst Subscriber Trends in Four Years

parislemon:

Todd Spangler on the most recent cable television numbers:

Q1 is historically one of the strongest periods for pay TV providers. But the 176,000 net adds in the most recent quarter came in at less than half the totals for the sector in the previous three years, according to Bazinet’s calculations. The industry added 403,000 in the first quarter of 2012; 483,000 in Q1 2011; and 507,000 in Q1 2010.

Indeed, the four largest publicly held MSOs in the States — Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Charter Communications and Cablevision Systems — collectively lost 208,000 video subscribers in Q1 2013, exactly double the 104,000 they dropped in the year-earlier period.

I sense a trend. And if my math is correct, that trend is not a good one for cable television.

[via @ryanlawler]

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Filed under: cable pay-TV TV technology video 
December 6, 2012
"When I go into my living room and turn on the TV, I feel like I have gone backwards in time by 20 to 30 years. It’s an area of intense interest. I can’t say more than that."

—

Tim Cook, to NBC News’ Brian Williams.

Yeah, that’s about as close to a confirmation of the project as you’re going to get out of Apple…

(via parislemon)

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Filed under: TV Apple 
August 1, 2012
"The whole idea that there’s a lot of people out there that want to drop multichannel TV, and just have a Netflix or an HBO — that’s not right. Look for the data, you won’t find them."

— Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes • Once again shooting down any chance of a web-only HBO GO service, following an inquiry by a Barclay’s Capital analyst during Time Warner’s earnings call. Bewkes told investors that the 7 million additional subscribers to HBO and Cinemax in the last 6 months was proof that there was still an extremely large market for cable-exclusivity. “There are tens of millions of homes with multichannel TV… [that] aren’t currently subscribing to HBO,” said Bewkes, “That’s the opportunity.” source (via • follow)

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Filed under: TV HBO Pay TV Netflix HBO Go 
July 29, 2012
"Technology was a crucial factor in this change, including DVDs, TiVo, and the emergence of a vibrant online TV-fan community. “The idea that viewers would want to watch—and rewatch—a television series in strict chronology and collectively document their discoveries with a group of strangers was once laughable, but is now mainstream,” Mittell writes in “Complex TV.” Television was no longer an ephemeral experience, to be watched and discarded: it could be collected, shared, and analyzed."

— The Power of the Cliffhanger : The New Yorker (via thisistheverge)

(via thisistheverge)

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Filed under: Tv Media 
June 7, 2012
emergentfutures: How’s This for Complexity? The Social TV Ecosystem Full Story: Edge of Digital Culture

emergentfutures:

How’s This for Complexity? The Social TV Ecosystem

Full Story: Edge of Digital Culture

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Filed under: social tv TV 
May 14, 2012
Does your TV have “rabbit ears?

Does your TV have “rabbit ears?

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Filed under: TV television icons 
May 14, 2012
"Outside of the professional football season or some breaking national news event, the television at our house has become uncoupled from the commercial-driven environment that drives the broadcast and cable business. We haven’t cut the cord so much as kinked it in a way that commercials rarely sneak through."

— Audiences Now Rarely Drawn to Live Television - NYTimes.com

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Filed under: TV broadcast Hollywood Cord cutters NY Times 
May 10, 2012

(Source: fuckyeahthreescompany, via 80sfreak)

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Filed under: three's company TV Don Knotts Mr. Furley 
April 17, 2012

(via chasewhiteside)

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Filed under: tv 
August 11, 2011

thedailywhat:

From The Archives: Menacing 1970s PSA warns against the threat to “Free TV” posed by “Pay TV and Cable TV companies seeking the right to charge you for the very programs you now get free.”

[presurfer.]

(Source: thedailywhat)

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Filed under: From The Archives pay TV TV Cable 
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