"Something's Happening Here … What It Is …" Is Slowly Taking Shape!

What they all together really mean will be discussed in the next editionSo here we goamp8226 A house boasting 10G connectivity with over 70 internet enabled quotthingsquot opened for official gawkers in Ames Iowa The Mediacom and Cable Labs furnished house boasts a fullyfeatured telehealth system the fastest known cabledelivered high speed underpinning and a hologram projected explanation of it allamp8226 Bloomberg39s QuickTake will launch an OTT channel in November to go along with its Twitterdistributed version of highlighted business reporting and featuresamp8226 Sling TV will add a quotwatch partyquot bonus for subscribers with Chrome browsers allowing sametime group watching and interactionsamp8226 Broadcasting groups are adding more OTT desks almost dailyamp8226 ViacomCBS has Paramount amp8230 and Showtime without the as complimentary OTT venturesamp8226 NLBC an Indiana operator is carrying both linear and OTT videoamp8226 Niche streamers are everywhere now as this guide from Vox showsamp8226 EW Scripps adds more stations by buying Ion Television amp8230 with Warren Buffet39s help and the vestiges of quotmust carryquot for all its networksamp8226 AMC39s Shudder horror streamer has over a million subsamp8226 Samsung TV Plus streamer is available on Galaxy smart phonesamp8226 Amazon launched two new Fire TV branded sticksamp8226 The Maine a la carte bill that allows cable subscribers to buy individual channels isn39t charming judgesamp8226 Philo cut a marketing deal with Best Buy streaming That39s a firstamp8226 Next Gen TV ATSC 30 is for real withamp8226 1 Launches in Boise by Evoca using the bandwidth on two low power TVs coupled with a SCOUTbox an antenna and streaming quotcablequot nets amp8230 80 channels for quotless than 50quotamp8226 2 STIRR Sinclair Digital Interactive Solutions is 100 free channels for Android usersamp8226 3 VUit is live local free streaming TV via most sticksamp8226 PampampG will negotiate directly with TV for ad buysamp8226 CNN dropped its quotGreat Big Storyquot streameramp8226 NBCU signed distribution deals including Peacock on Rokuamp8226 Starry fixed wireless is targeting singlefamily homesamp8226 Digital or Virtual CableTec Expo keeps growing ahead of its October 12 opening It runs through the 15thamp8226 Fiber demand is skyrocketing amp8230 or welcome to COVID19 supply chain shortagesamp8226 OTT software providers Youi TV and MediaKind teamed upamp8226 Serious big news for retransmission consent quotfansquot as Sinclair controlled stations and ATampampT managed to get the FCC to fine the stations for quotlack of good faith negotiationsquot amp8230 at 9 million collectivelyamp8226 ESPN39s GiantsSteelers Monday Night Footballamp160with ESPN2 and ABCTV tackled 107 million regular TV viewers Who knows how many watched on YouTube etc streaming versionsamp8226 Tubi active users jumped up 65 in August to 33 millionamp8226 Black News Channel is live on DirecTV and headed for ATampampT TV and ATampampT NOW it is also on Charter Comcastamp160and Dishamp8226 Discovery bought the assets of adtech startup AdSparxamp8226 At the Goldman Sachs day Charter39s Tom Rutledge likened pay TV to a quotvideo storequot amp8230 meaning a whole range of video products on Charter39s broadband baseamp8226 Amazon39s new quotlightquot Fire stick matches the cost of Roku Expressamp8226 WarnerMedia bet 37 billion renewing and expanding MLB rightsamp8226 CSPAN3 to quotairquot the 20 Cable TV Pioneer Inductee Ceremony featuring my nominee Dan Greiner the third Greiner to be inductedamp8226 The President has nominated NTIA advisor Nathan Simington to the Federal Confusion Commission Simington at the President39s request initiated a request from NTIA to the FCC regarding Section 320amp8226 NBCU39s cable channels were a crown jewel Now they39re an albatrossamp8226 Quibi might already be for saleamp8226 Pay TV to lose the most subs ever in a single year amp8230 sixamp160millionamp8226 Amazon launches gamestreaming service Lunaamp8226 New JD Power national TV service satisfaction study lists ATampampTDirecTV and Dish first followed by Comcast and CharterAs you may have deduced TV just ain39t TV anymore And with streaming and the startling shift from a wholesale to a retail business model more variations are inevitable Given broadband39s growth and eventual likely ubiquity why keep spectrum for all those broadcastersRandom NotesNews Report sources include ACA Connects a compilation and a great source Axios Media Trends CableFax Daily Fierce newsletters Light Reading Cable News ampamp Views Multichannel News Next TV The New York Times The Poynter Report Press Releases ampamp Web Sites The Seattle Times TVNewsCheck The Wall Street Journalamp160and The Washington PostIn my last column I mentioned Mr Holanda and RCNWave Grande now plus enTouch Systems owned by TPG and managed by Patriot Media Consulting made some things happen amp8230 our Wave system is now brought up to snuff amp8230 by really polite cool 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