AT&T


Vessel voyage to end after Verizon acquisition

Jason Kilar’s online video service Vessel will close on October 31 after US telecoms giant Verizon swooped to buy the technology and software that underpins it. Verizon will hire “most” of Vessel’s staff, including “some of the original founding team at Hulu” after buying the business for an undisclosed amount. Kilar (pictured) co-founded Vessel and […]

Netflix plots $1bn raise for content acquisitions

Netflix is looking to raise US$1 billion in order to fund further content acquisitions, investments and strategic transactions. Intriguingly, the announcement of a US$1 billion debt offering in senior notes was an adjustment on a plan to raise US$800 million revealed just hours before. Los Gatos-based SVOD giant Netflix said the funds would be used […]

AT&T, Time Warner deal ‘poses new threat to rivals’

The creation of a merged AT&T and Time Warner will have rivals such as Netflix, Disney and Viacom “looking at their strategies with new eyes this morning”, according to a leading media analyst. Ed Barton of UK-based research house Ovum told TBI the implications were “fundamental” for “all distributors without a stake in content and all […]

Trump opposes AT&T/Time Warner and Comcast/NBCU

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has come out against the AT&T and Time Warner deal and also said if he wins the US election, his administration would examine another media mega merger, that of Comcast and NBCUniversal. Trump has taken issue with mainstream media throughout his campaign, with the attacks becoming more frequent and trenchant […]

AT&T strikes multi-platform deal with HBO

AT&T has reached a multi-year deal with HBO to offer the latter’s content across all its platforms, including its forthcoming DirecTV Now streaming service. The agreement marks a renewal of HBO’s existing contract with AT&T’s DirecTV and U-verse services and will make all HBO and Cinemax content available on DirecTV Now, which is due to […]

Pay TV firms lose 665,000 subs in Q2

IPTV providers’ losses – particularly those of AT&T – meant that the top eleven US pay TV operator lost 665,000 net subscribers in the second quarter, compared with a loss of 545,000 for the same period last year, according to figures compiled by Leichtman Research. The top telecom providers lost about 500,000 video subscribers in […]

AT&T net prepares diamond trader drama

US channel AT&T Audience Network has commissioned a ten-part drama from Entertainment One and Fuqua Films about downtown LA diamond traders. Ice will be a “high-impact, serlialised crime drama” that follows a family as they “plunge into the underbelly of the Los Angeles diamond trade”, with one man forced to bail out his brother after […]

AT&T posts record subs loss as US pay TV slows

AT&T’s U-verse IPTV service recorded the single largest quarterly subs reverse ever in Q1, shedding 380,000 customers. The numbers were revealed in Leichtman Research’s latest US pay TV report. The research house noted that across the board, the thirteen largest US pay TV operators recorded a 10,000 net subs gain in Q1, but that compared […]

AT&T posts record subs loss as US pay TV slows

AT&T’s U-verse IPTV service recorded the single largest quarterly subs reverse ever in Q1, shedding 380,000 customers. The numbers were revealed in Leichtman Research’s latest US pay TV report. The research house noted that across the board, the thirteen largest US pay TV operators recorded a 10,000 net subs gain in Q1, but that compared […]

Fullscreen rebrands and reorganises

Chernin Media and AT&T-backed multichannel network Fullscreen has reorganised and created specific online talent, original video and branded content units. The wider company has changed from Fullscreen Inc. to Fullscreen Media. Sitting within in that the Fullscreen Creator Network will house content from the MCN’s vloggers and online talent. Fullscreen Entertainment will cover original programming […]

1 7 8 9 10 11 13