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News & Views Most Popular Podcast: Cable Gets the Urge to Converge By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 11/21/2019 Light Reading's Jeff Baumgartner and Alan Breznick discuss the key themes from Cable Congress and Cable Next-Gen Europe in Berlin, finding there's a renewed focus on 1-Gig speeds and the fixed mobile network. Post a Comment Disney+ to Rake in 8M Subs 'Out of the Gate' – Analyst By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/23/2019 A blend of solid content and aggressive promotions and discounts could help the new streaming service rise to 18 million subs worldwide by the end of Disney's fiscal 2020. Post a Comment Surge of Streaming Options Triggers 'Subscription Overload' – Study By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/17/2019 But platforms that bundle streaming video services, backed by single sign-on systems, could benefit both OTT and pay-TV players alike. Post a Comment Advertisement Chill Out! Netflix Is Fine, Analyst Says By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/14/2019 Concerns about new direct-to-consumer competition alongside pressure on Netflix's pricing power is misunderstood or overblown, contends LightShed Partners analyst Richard Greenfield. Post a Comment Seven Things We Learned at Cable-Tec Expo By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/10/2019 The 10G future is in sight, HFC has gas in the tank, Comcast is getting serious about network virtualization, DOCSIS's pioneers get recognized and more from last week's show in The Big Easy. Post a Comment Locast to Viewers: Help! By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/23/2019 Under fire from US broadcasters, Locast is appealing for funds to help it mount a legal defense, a move that was attempted eight years ago by Ivi Inc., an OTT-TV company that was sued out of existence. Post a Comment Cox Also Flexing Its Streaming Muscles By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/18/2019 Cable op has quietly launched the Contour Stream Player, Cox's twist on Comcast's Xfinity Flex video streaming product for broadband-only subs. Post a Comment Advertisement NBCU Picks 'Peacock' as Brand for Premium Streaming Service By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/17/2019 The media giant has apparently passed on tacking on '+' to the end of the name of the OTT service that will launch next spring and feature more than 15,000 hours of content. Post a Comment ViacomCBS Won't Claw Back Content By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/9/2019 Unlike Disney, the newly formed ViacomCBS isn't expected to forgo lucrative licensing dollars just to pump fuel into its OTT, direct-to-consumer plans. Post a Comment OSTV Now Stalls on the Launchpad By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/3/2019 Countdown to the debut of a new video streaming service connected to Omniverse CEO Jason DeMeo featuring 50 'top' US TV channels starting at $50 leads to nothing... so far. Post a Comment Consumers Overpay for Broadband – Study By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/22/2019 Findings from university researchers and the WSJ could crash broadband's ARPU party as a growing number of subscribers upgrade to faster, more expensive high-speed Internet tiers. Post a Comment Deal Pushes ViacomCBS Past Netflix in Programming Spend By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/14/2019 Combined company only will trail Disney, Comcast/NBCU and AT&T/WarnerMedia in that category as streaming battle intensifies. Post a Comment OSTV Now: Omniverse Exec Offers One-Stop Shop for TV By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/12/2019 Slated for launch in early September, the new offering will include a package of more than 50 US television channels, including 'faith-based,' premium and international channels. Post a Comment Locast Needs More Than Luck to Beat the Broadcasters By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/7/2019 Connections to AT&T and Dish harm Locast's position as a non-profit, do-gooder and add fuel to the arguments being set against Locast by the Big 4 US broadcasters. Post a Comment Set TV Is Now Really, Really Dead By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/1/2019 California court hits alleged OTT-TV pirate with $7.6 million fine and permanent injunction on the service and the operation and distribution of a device used to stream hundreds of TV channels for just $20/month. Post a Comment You.i TV Cashing in on Multiscreen Migration By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 7/17/2019 As the traditional pay-TV biz suffers and the direct-to-consumer OTT video market rises, You.i TV has found its niche as companies on all sides seek ways to simplify the path to a wide array of screens. Post a Comment AT&T Exec Said Telco's Ideas Will 'Radically Reshape' TV By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 6/6/2019 The OTT-delivered 'thin-client' version of DirecTV will debut in Q3, but AT&T's John Donovan side-stepped questions on how the new offering will disrupt a market full of streaming competitors. Post a Comment Comcast Sunsetting VoD Support on TiVo Retail Boxes By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/28/2019 TiVo says it's working with Comcast to bring a 'more modern Xfinity application' to TiVo's retail device customers. Post a Comment Terabyte Broadband Homes Continue to Climb By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/22/2019 OpenVault report finds that consumers in that 'power user' group doubled in Q1 2019, a growth rate that could cause some cable operators and other ISPs to consider upping their monthly data ceilings. Post a Comment Charter X1 Syndication Deal: A Remote Possibility? By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/2/2019 Industry sources say it's extremely unlikely that Charter would do a full syndication deal for X1, but that Charter could be interested in adopting some specific features and capabilities of Comcast's video platform. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Newsfeed - industry press releases, curated by our editors		Security Now Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Discovered in Enterprise-Grade VPN Larry Loeb, Author, 12/6/2019 Aviatrix, an enterprise VPN company with customers that include NASA, Shell and ... 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New 5G Network Security Threats Sigma Systems at Digital Transformation World 2019 Ciena Talks Converged Interconnect Networks at Cable ... Red Hat Enterprise Linux: A Secure Foundation for the ... Viasat: Connecting the Unconnected LotusFlare: Awesome Digital Experiences to Drive Growth Source Photonics CEO: Vertical Integration & Lean Models ... MobiledgeX: Who Benefits From Edge Computing? Why Is 5G Different? VMware Service Assurance: Reducing Operational ... Architect Digital-Ready Infrastructures Using SDN & NFV Accenture 5G Acceleration Services at Mobile World ... PacketFabric: Leading the Way in Highly Scalable Network ... Accenture 5G Acceleration Services at Mobile World ... Semtech: LoRa Technology Enabling Proven, Flexible IoT ... Versa's CEO, Kelly Ahuja: Securing & Software-Defining ... How Lumina Is Redefining SDN Aryaka's Gary Sevounts: Advantages to Consuming SD-WAN ... Calix's Shane Eleniak: How Data Analytics & Software ... 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