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Five months after it was announced, Comcast’s Xfinity TV subs finally have access to a key part of the TV Everywhere promise — WatchESPN, the ESPN gateway to live streaming sports and news. It’s iOS only for now, but Android is “coming soon.” Read More »

With chief James Dolan mentioning unspecified software investments during Cablevision’s first-quarter earnings report Thursday morning, BTIG Research analyst Richard Greenfield believes the company is on the cusp of announcing a subscription video-on-demand service similar to Comcast’s Streampix. Read More »

 
 

Women at NBCU, NBCUniversal’s female-targeted ad sales, marketing and research initiative, is launching a new digital advisory board called Women@NBCU. Members include Google’s Marissa Mayer, Twitter’s Chloe Sladden and One Kings Lane’s Alison Pincus. Read More »

Bernstein Research wonders if the decision by Providence Equity Partners to pull its minority stake out of Hulu is a signal that the entertainment conglomerates who own most of the streaming service — and who wish to uphold TV’s multichannel model — don’t want it to … Read More »

Fandango will be an online and mobile movie-ticket seller for Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Movies, according to a new partnership between the two comp… Read More »

With HBO’s new video teaser for the April 1 launch of its HBO Go service on Xbox Live, the big question is: Which of the top cable, satellit… Read More »

This week, Major League Soccer introduced updated apps that let fans stream 230 live pro soccer games next season on iOS and Android mobile… Read More »

Correction: A previous version of this story reported an increase of 343 million subs. We apologize for the error. With the rise of Netflix… Read More »

An ambitious effort by the cable industry to create unified standards for targeted and interactive television advertising has failed, the vi… Read More »

Comcast Gives Subscribers One More Reason To Quit Netflix

Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) is rolling out a new streaming on-demand offering called Xfinity Streampix, which will bring more library content to s… Read More »

The bleeding has finally slowed for Comcast’s cable business. Reporting its fourth-quarter and full-year earnings Wednesday, the Philadelphi… Read More »

Besides the typical $1 to $2 broker fee, one of the factors limiting the growth of the online movie-ticket selling business has been its com… Read More »

More Must Reads

Some numbers out today that underscore the challenge telecoms operators have had in attracting customers to their pay-TV platforms, includin… Read More »

Struggling for leverage with cable distributors as the operator of an independent network, Mark Cuban may have found a way forward for one o… Read More »

The evolution of premium cable TV beyond the living room took another step this week, with Showtime introducing a streaming app to rival HBO… Read More »

Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) has started in-home streaming but it’s not quite live video Valhalla. Streaming access to the Xfinity TV linear lineup… Read More »

Yesterday’s press release from Disney (NYSE: DIS) and Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA), announcing a comprehensive new ten-year distribution agreement… Read More »

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