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AT&T is selling part of its Live TV service to a private equity firm as it seemingly prepares to jettison legacy TV from its portfolio. The firm, TPG will control 30 percent of AT&Ts TV services which include AT&T TV, U-Verse and DirecTV. The three services will be spun off into a separate company. How…
Over 11 million people have subscribed to Discovery-based streaming services at the moment according to Discovery CEO David Zaslav who revealed the early success of the platform during a fourth-quarter earnings call this morning. Discovery has more services than its newest and most well-known one, but it’s obvious to observers that this is being driven…
This is a video commentary on Amazon’s efforts to curb piracy through lawsuits. While there is a lot of discussion on the issue the truth is that one of the major plaintiffs against piracy distributors and box sellers is itself part of the problem. Take a listen and see what you think.
Amazon is one of the leaders in the anti-piracy crusade. Due to its position as a content creator and distributor Amazon has a major stake in preventing the distribution of copyrighted content. It houses original movies and TV shows as well as exclusive programming. Even the content it makes available via free services like IMDB…
Roku is not producing original TV shows or movies. Roku has not announced plans to launch a studio. Roku does not sign actors or directors to contracts. We should not expect it to. Roku is a company that promotes its platform/operating system and profits from advertising. It is not getting into the TV and movie…
