US Cable Networks Intelligence

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Reports

CBS-Comcast Deal: Business as usual or TV Everywhere? | 13 Aug 10 tags › | The recent Comcast-CBS retransmission agreement adds a major content partner to the Comcast-Time Warner TV Everywhere initiative, the operator-centric multiplatform distribution model. Early analysis that presented this deal as a marriage of convenience misses its strategic importance. This deal represents a potentially game-changing compromise between industry leaders seeking to recast online dis...

Beating the bears: US pay TV got stronger in the recession | 28 Jul 10 tags › | Despite recessionary pressures and competition from alternate entertainment forms US subscription television service operators are still doing surprisingly well, with established operators all posting revenue and net subscriber gains in the first quarter of 2010. Satellite and telco operators continue to steal away video subscribers from cable operators while MSOs make up for their losses by addin...

Google TV: the next frontier or another 'Web TV'? | 05 Jul 10 tags › | Google's TV platform, scheduled to launch in autumn 2010, will bring a large number of both legal and illegal online video sources to the living room TV, threatening both the established home entertainment business and existing pay TV walled gardens. The initiative poses an immediate threat to connected TV platforms (Yahoo! Widget Engine, Vudu Apps) and in the long run is set to compete with Apple...

Analyst commentary

US pay TV operators swarm around the iPad | 20 Aug 10 tags › | Verizon has joined Cablevision and Dish Network in announcing an iPad app to offer some form of TV service to their customers. Verizon and Cablevision's apps will, initially at least, be limited to live...

Epix licenses movies to Netflix Watch Instantly | 11 Aug 10 tags › | Netflix is to offer movies from multiplatform pay TV channel Epix in its online streaming service Watch Instantly from 1 September 2010. The multi-year deal gives Netflix access to select new releases and...

NFL launches online subscription for preseason fixtures | 04 Aug 10 tags › | The National Football League (NFL) in the US is to stream its preseason fixtures live online.

Presentations

US Cable Network Intelligence | 04 Aug 10 tags › | By 2013 the cable television network business will be worth almost $60bn. As cable networks continue to gain in popularity they will command even higher carriage fees from pay-TV operators. This presentation is a brief introduction to the extensive analysis and forecasts for the US basic and premium cable networks included in Screen Digest's newest Intelligence service - US Cable Network Intellige...