James Murdoch has some advice for non-media companies looking to enter the space: be tolerant of failure and have patience. That goes for companies “dabbling” in TV content production. Namely, Apple. “Going piece by piece, one by one, show by show, it’s going to take a long time to really move the dial and have …
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Rich Hanna stands amid a seemingly unending series of long gray metal shelves loaded with a random assortment of items, including trash barrels, stacks of Kibbles ‘n Bits dog food, a stuffed-animal chipmunk sealed in a plastic bag, an LED-glowing underwater stool for a pool and a 35-pound tube of Safe Paw Ice Melter. That’s just the start. “You wanna …
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Comcast is rounding up financing to make an all-cash $52 billion bid to acquire most of 21st Century Fox’s assets, Reuters reported Monday. The US cable giant’s deal would upset Walt Disney’s proposed deal with Fox. In December, Disney agreed to purchase 21st Century Fox in a $52.4 billion all-stock deal. Comcast’s 21st Century Fox bid is the latest in a frenzied …
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US cable TV giant Comcast has offered to buy Sky TV, a major UK television company, undermining a long-standing takeover attempt by Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox. Comcast said early Monday that its offer values Sky at $31 billion, or £22 billion. The £12.50-a-share offer in cash is higher than the £10.75-a-share offer from Fox Inc. that Sky accepted 14 …
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CBS launched a free streaming TV sports network known as CBS Sports HQ on Monday, as more media companies look to virtual television to offset slipping ratings. CBS Sports HQ is modeled on CBSN — a 24-hour online news network CBS launched in 2014 — with a sports spin. The sports service will present live news, game highlights and team analyses on connected devices. …
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Neither the Philadelphia Eagles nor the Minnesota Vikings have won a Super Bowl, and these two storied but tortured franchises are only two victories away from a title. With so much on the line, the drama is sure to be high Sunday night in Philadelphia. Here’s how you can watch the game if you don’t have cable. What: NFC Championship …
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Don’t worry. If you miss the first “future of TV” panel at CES next week, you can catch the second one a day later. For all the attention paid to off-the-wall gadgets at CES every year, the convention often feels like a giant stage to show off televisions. From eye-popping screen sizes to mind-bending display technologies, TVs are one of …
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YouTube TV finally has a full app, but the rollout to various TV devices is taking longer than originally planned. The apps for Roku and Apple TV, originally slated to launch before the end of 2017, are now scheduled for the first quarter of 2018. Also planned for the Q1 timeframe, a YouTube representative told me, are apps for older …
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With Disney buying Fox, are your online video options about to resemble a map of Disneyland? Disney knows its future is streaming. Even before Thursday’s tectonic deal to buy large swaths of 21st Century Fox for $52.4 billion, Disney was already laying the groundwork to move into online entertainment in a big way. It has its own streaming services for …
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Cut out the sports, news and local channels, and suddenly live TV is cheaper than ever. A new multichannel live TV streaming service called Philo launches today, and it’s just $16 per month. That’s the least-expensive of its kind yet, undercutting former lowball champ Sling TV, which starts at $20. Philo is less than half as much as DirecTV Now, …
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