| Today's Top 10 Stories | | #1 | | AT&T: DirecTV Now Will Be a Game Changer | | | | AT&T CFO John Stephens told analysts yesterday that the companys planned over-the-top offering, DirecTV Now, slated to debut by the end of the year, will be a game changer, targeting millennial cord cutters with a streaming video service chock full of on-demand and live content.
Why This Matters: Company CEO Randall Stephenson added that digital content rights, specifically stacking rights, were the major holdout. The CEO said a beta version of the service is functional and undergoing testing. AT&T announced plans for DirecTV Now in March.
3 Takes: MCN | Home Media | Investors Business Daily | | | | #2 | | Redbox Testing New Streaming Service | | | | Redbox confirmed that it has started to test a new transactional video-on-demand service, called Redbox Digital, with a small group of customers. It is initially being offered as an iPad app, although Variety reported that Redbox is also eyeing an app for the Roku platform.
Why This Matters: The move comes two years after pulling the plug on its SVOD partnership with Verizon. Redbox Digital will offer digital video rentals and sales to complement its existing retail kiosk business.
5 Takes: Variety | MCN | Fierce Online Video | Consumerist | The Verge | | | | #3 | | BitTorrent Live Comes to the Mac | | | | BitTorrent today released a beta version of its BitTorrent Live app for Mac users. The move comes just a week after launching BitTorrent Now on iOS and Apple TV. Unlike BitTorrent Now, BitTorrent Live relies on peer-to-peer technology to turn every viewer into a broadcaster.
Why This Matters: The company said that it released the beta version for Mac today so that users could catch the tail end of the Republican National Convention, as well as the Democratic National Convention next week, on its recently launched BitTorrent News channel.
2 Takes: MCN | 9to5 Mac | | |
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| | THE CHATTER | | "Leaving aside the merits of either side's arguments about right and wrong, what is clear is that Dish's steady stream of programming disputes [is] having an increasingly obvious impact on the subscriber metrics of the core satellite business."
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| | Blog Post of The Day | Insights: Whats Next For TV News After Roger Ailes, Cord Cutting and Live Streaming?
By David Bloom, Tubefilter
The most powerful man in TV news has just lost his job, throwing one of the biggest properties on cable TV into limbo. Meanwhile, network coverage of the political conventions has been carved down to an hour a night, a symptom of much diminished ambitions and indifferent ratings. Jon Stewarts heirs couldnt pull an Emmy nomination in a category that Comedy Central dominated for a decade. And of course viewership everywhere in TV news is settling downward, quickly. More |
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