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Landmark deal means Comcast will stream Netflix

US cable giant Comcast will stream SVOD service Netflix on its X1 set-top box, a move that signals a major thawing in the relationship between the two companies. Netflix will be offered to Comcast subscribers from later this year, marking Netflix’s biggest deal to date with a US cable or satellite provider. Comcast and Netflix […]

Altice to invest in originals, new US services

Altice founder Patrick Drahi plans to produce original series in France from next year that he hopes to distribute globally via the company’s distribution networks to its 46 million subscribers. Speaking to journalists in New York on the completion of Altice’s acquisition of Cablevision, Drahi said that he believed Altice Media could create series for […]

US pay TV ‘struggling’ to retain subs

Nine out of the top ten US pay TV operators lost subscribers in the quarter to June 30, new research reveals. Cumulatively, more than 400,600 digital television subscribers were lost in the second quarter of 2015, the informitv Multiscreen Index research showed. DirecTV, now part of AT&T, lost the most customers, 133,000, followed by Dish […]