| Today's Top 10 Stories | | #1 | | Verizon: Online Viewers Expect TV-Quality Video | | | | According to a new consumer survey from Verizon Digital Media Services (VDMS), online video viewers expect TV-like quality with their content every time they watch, no matter the screen. More than 85% of those surveyed told VDMS that it was important to get a TV-like quality experience for every video, on every screen they use.
Why This Matters: The survey, based on June interviews with more than a 1,000 American online adults, found that the average time spent viewing video on any device fell by 77% when video quality dropped, with a third of viewers abandoning the video altogether half the time they watched content on mobile devices.
3 Takes: B&C | Advanced Television | Media Post |
| | #2 | | Broadcasters Seek $86.4 Billion as Reverse Auction Closes | | | | The FCC announced the end of the first stage of the incentive auction after 52 rounds, setting the clearing cost for 126 MHz of spectrum at $86.4 billion, an amount that wireless providers may balk at, triggering a second round with a reduced clearing target.
Why This Matters: Wireless service providers will have to pony up $86.4 billion during the forward auction, which will start in a few days. If that figure isn't met, the FCC will reduce the amount of spectrum it will free up for wireless use, resuming bidding with TV broadcasters in the reverse auction where it ended during the previous stage.
5 Takes: B&C | Bloomberg | Deadline | Reuters | Fierce Wireless |
| | #3 | | Sling TV Introduces New Roku UI | | | | Sling TV unveiled a new interface on Roku that is designed to help subscribers access their favorite channels and shows more easily.
Why This Matters: The new interface includes a home screen called My TV, which allows users to place their favorite channels at the top of the screen so they can be retrieved more quickly. The company has also introduced a Continue Watching feature, which enables users to resume watching a program at the point where they left off. Sling TVs new UI for Roku also features a Sports view, and a curated On Now view based on whats currently airing live in categories such as sports, lifestyle and action.
3 Takes: MCN | Digital Trends | TV Predictions |
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| | THE CHATTER |  | Regulatory profiteer Dish Network is faithfully executing its apparent campaign to use carriage impasses to induce the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to tip its retransmission consent rules in Dishs favor. Dish has become the market leader in creating impasses, harnessing the resulting consumer frustration, and through its proxy the American Television Alliance, driving its customers to the Commission to demand a regulatory fix.
NAB Associate General Counsel Scott Goodwin |
| | Blog Post of The Day | Are Emerging Virtual MVPDs Real Competition to Cable Operators?
By Evolution Digital
It is not just over the top (OTT) providers, such as Amazon, Netflix and Hulu, that are putting pressure on cable operators in the U.S. today. New delivery systems, from DirecTV (now part of AT&T) and Dish/Sling TV to Playstation Vue, are also increasingly challenging the traditional cable business model. This is largely through the introduction of the so-called skinny bundle. More |
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