BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is acting to head off rising City concerns about the threat from over-the-top connected TV services, by announcing it will launch, by the summer, its own such service that does not require a satellite subscription.

When people think about ditching their cable or satellite subscriptions in favor of one of the growing number of internet-connected set-top boxes, one of things that gives them pause is the idea of losing access to live TV. Now Boxee, one of the companies encouraging TV watchers to cut the…

Some numbers out today that underscore the challenge telecoms operators have had in attracting customers to their pay-TV platforms, including the newer services like IPTV, against competition from incumbent TV providers and the growing allure of over-the-top services, from Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) to YouTube.

Struggling for leverage with cable distributors as the operator of an independent network, Mark Cuban may have found a way forward for one of the pioneer channels broadcast in HD: teaming with Ryan Seacrest Media, Creative Artists Agency and AEG to re-launch HDNet this summer as AXS TV, a 24/7…

Cord-cutting technology was out in force at CES this week, and main rival Dish Network (NSDQ: DISH) just announced a “company relaunch” that includes, among other offerings, a souped-up DVR capable of recording up to six shows at once. But that isn’t going to stop DirecTV (NYSE: DTV) from increasing…

Struggling satellite TV carrier Dish Network (NSDQ: DISH) christened what it called a company “relaunch” with a new digital video recorder that can record 2,000 hours of content and record up to six shows in once. If that doesn’t cover your time-shifting needs, and your last name isn’t Duggar, you…

When the News Corporation-controlled UK satellite broadcaster Sky launched a free iPad app for its Sky Sports News channel in September 2010, some wondered if it would also start to offer a paid version of the product. Well, it’s taken 15 months, but it’s happened.

News reports (Mail Online, Telegraph.co.uk) that *Apple* and *Google* may bid for 2013-16 Premier League live broadcast rights are almost certainly wide of the post.

This is the last in a series of posts that highlighted key people, companies and trends to watch in 2012 in the sectors we cover most, from publishing to legal, and from mobile to advertising. Not too long ago, TV Everywhere was a bold concept being evangelized by Time Warner…

With the growth of over-the-top services that let users access the video they want over the internet (and often, for free), those companies offering pay-TV have to look for more bells and whistles to keep fickle consumers interested in their services. The latest offerings in this area come from France…

Last week, Verizon announced a $3.6 billion deal to buy wireless spectrum from cable operators and resell their pay-TV services. This week, Lowell McAdam, Verizon’s CEO, started to lay out how that deal will impact other services operated and sold by the carrier: it looks like it will not continue…

Interactive TV, a phrase still used but painful to hear, grates like the name of an old girlfriend, conjuring up hopes long since unfulfilled yet still surprisingly fresh. Gratefully, it’s time to put old notions of interactive TV behind us because this week Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) will release a user…

Some of the stories people are talking about this morning:»  Emily Gould And The Rise Of The Indie E-Bookseller (paidContent) »  Mobile Ad Company 4INFO Raises $14 Million, Spins Out Its AdHaven Platform (paidContent) »  The Awkward, Unanswered Questions That Led to Coldplay’s Spotify Embargo (paidContent) »  Laid off Gannett…

UK football fans will potentially be able to watch cut-price Premier League matches, after the European Union’s highest court ruled on Tuesday that it is not illegal for individuals to buy set top box decoder cards from foreign broadcasters.

Some of the stories people are talking about this morning:»  NYT Paywall: 12 Percent Of Subs Are International; IHT Paywall Coming (paidContent) »  Documentary Streamer Snagfilms Adds Drama, Wider Mobile Distribution (paidContent) »  Comparing The New Aggregators: Flipboard, Pulse, Zite, Float And More (paidContent) »  Hulu has more than 1…

Indie documentary video streaming service SnagFilms making good on some of the changes it proposed earlier this year, when it raised $10 million in funding: it’s officially expanding its 2,300 non-fiction film library to include dramatic, fictional independent features. The second change can be called the “Snag Everywhere” plan, which…

Despite the aggressive growth of personalized, “online radio” offerings such as Pandora (NYSE: P) and Spotify, which recently arrived in the U.S., Sirius XM (NSDQ: SIRI) Satellite Radio says it expects to add 1.6 million net subscribers this year, a revision upward from its previous projection of an increase of…

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Some of the stories people are talking about this morning:»  Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Launching New iPhone in October, Not September (AllThingsD) »  The New Yorker now has 100,000 iPad readers, including about 20,000 people who bought subscriptions at $59.99 a year. (NYT) »  ‘Atlantic’ Trying to Break New Ground With…

James Murdoch is likely to remain chairman of satellite company BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) after winning the support of the leading independent director ahead of a crunch meeting later this week. Nicholas Ferguson, Sky’s deputy chairman, is understood to have given Murdoch his backing after a “long conversation” in a private…