When Apple’s Apple TV+ steaming service arrives this fall, I’ll give it a try…
Tag: over-the-top TV
Disney closes $71.3 billion deal for 21st Century Fox assets paving way for streaming service
Walt Disney Co. closed its $71.3 billion acquisition of the major entertainment assets of 21st Century Fox…
Canal+ gives up on its cable box, switches to Apple TV
You can now subscribe to Canal+ and get an Apple TV 4K with Canal+’s myCanal app already preloaded…
Apple TV saw 709 percent growth in viewing hours over last year – report
Viewing hours on Roku grew by 87 percent…
The case for Apple to finally just make a TV
If you’ve been following tech for a while, you know that rumors about Apple building a TV…
Here’s why Apple and others still don’t offer streaming TV services
The landscape of the TV market continues to buckle and heave as old players scramble to hold on and new entrants jockey for position…
Google’s YouTube said to plan ‘Unplugged’ Internet TV service for 2017
YouTube is working on a paid subscription service called Unplugged that would offer customers a bundle of cable TV channels streamed over the Internet…
Hulu could beat Apple to market with cable-style Internet TV service
Hulu is developing a subscription service that would stream feeds of popular broadcast and cable TV channels…
Apple may have dropped its plans for an Apple TV streaming service
While Apple may be letting Dr. Dre star in his own show, it seems the company is setting aside plans…
CBS CEO Les Moonves: Talks with Apple have stopped
Last year CBS CEO Les Moonves was bullish about his company’s talks with Apple about a possible game-changer in TV…
HBO Now has 800,000 paying subscribers since April launch
HBO Now has gained about 800,000 paying subscribers since it launched on Apple TV…
Akamai warning hints Apple prepping for streaming TV
Apple’s main CDN company, Akamai, has warned shareholders that it expects to see its combined revenue from Apple…
Apple could leapfrog Google, Amazon, and Alibaba by acquiring Netflix
To say that Apple results were looked upon as a disappointment this past week would be an understatement…
Cringely: Apple will buy Dish Network
Charlie Ergen, a tough-yet-charismatic operator who built Dish from scratch and knows his industry…
ESPN President: We are in ongoing conversations with Apple
We’ve had discussions with Apple. I believe in 2016 there will be further announcements…
Why Apple should buy Netflix
If Apple wants to launch a subscription video service, there are really only two options…
1 in 5 young U.S. adults have cut the cable or satellite cord
Never doubt the ability of pay TV to piss off people…
3 things an Apple TV service needs to succeed
With Apple reportedly hitting the pause button on its much-rumored streaming Apple TV service…
The Apple TV conundrum
Before the Apple TV was launched in September, some expected that Apple would be announcing a new subscription TV plan…
Apple, TV networks clash over size and makeup of Internet TV bundle
If Apple gets its way, TV will undergo a significant change, just like the music business did…
Greedy media companies stymie Apple’s plan to offer Apple TV Internet TV package
The struggle highlights the difficulty new entrants face in trying to persuade media companies to overhaul the conventional pay-TV bundle…
CBS CEO Moonves says Apple puts live TV service ‘on hold’
Apple Inc. has pressed pause on its planned live TV service, CBS Corp. Chief Executive Officer Les Moonves said…
Pacific Crest: Apple may rethink Internet TV service or something
Dish Network has not hit a home run with its new Sling Web TV service, and Apple might not step up…
Analyst: How Apple’s market value hits $1 trillion in 2016
Apple would be the first corporation to reach that level…
What’s Apple’s next big step with TV?
While Apple is busy promoting the newest iteration of its Apple TV box…
Fox’s James Murdoch, CBS’s Les Moonves hint at looming Apple Web TV service launch
No, CBS chief executive Les Moonves and 21st Century Fox CEO James Murdoch did not say Apple by name…
Apple’s OTT broadcast will raise the bar for live streaming
Apple’s long-awaited web TV service is expected to raise the bar for live streaming…
Dish Network urges FCC to kill Charter-Time Warner Cable megamerger
Dish Network Corp said on Tuesday it filed a petition asking the Federal Communications Commission…
HBO GO activation page for Apple TV suggests support from Charter imminent
Charter Communications subscribers might soon be able to stream HBO programming to their Apple TV…
Analyst: New Apple TV platform is bad news for Netflix
As Apple’s massive special event looms, investors should be right to be worried about Netflix, which was still falling Thursday…
Media companies want Apple to charge more than $40/month for Internet TV service
Despite the fact Apple isn’t going to debut a fancy new television service with Apple TV…
Rosenblatt analyst: Apple TV’s time has arrived
Rosenblatt Securities‘s Brian Blair today reiterates a Buy rating on shares of Apple…
Apple’s plan to destroy the fat cable bundle
The future of television will be built on the back of the video bundle
Analyst: Apple needs Akamai even with their own content delivery network
Akamai Technologies will gain from soaring data consumption driven by online video…
Will Apple TV kill cable?
Apple TV is scheduled for a long overdue update, with rumors of a new interface…
‘People familiar with Apple’s plans’ say…
Seven references to the people ‘familiar with Apple’s plans’ in the first five paragraphs…
Apple to delay live Internet TV service to 2016 as negotiations stall, sources say
Apple Inc. customers waiting for the company to revolutionize live television…
Piper’s Munster: Only a 50% chance of Apple Internet TV service debut this year
The new box is expected to incorporate Siri, HomeKit, and possibly an Apple TV app store…
What’s in store for Apple’s special media event in October?
The soon to be announced Apple special event in September…
Cord-cutting: Cable channels hit on subscriber losses
The latest round of earnings from major media companies…
Apple TV points to much bigger ambitions for Apple Inc.
Apple may generate nearly 70% of its revenue from the iPhone..
Apple to unveil next-gen Apple TV in September, sources say
The remote has been ‘drastically improved’ by a touch-pad input…