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A few months ago, DIRECTV NOW customers lost access to ESPN3 content. At the time some support agents said this was just a glitch and ESPN3 support would return shortly. Now AT&T has confirmed that ESPN3 is not coming back and should never have been part of DIRECTV NOW. In a statement on DIRECTV NOW’s […]
Last night DIRECTV NOW added more CW locals to their lineup. It seems to be mostly Sinclair owned CW Networks including WCTV The CW 18 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Birmingham, Alabama according to a report on Reddit and confirmed by Cord Cutters News. Update: Here are all the CW locals DIRECTV NOW added today, Atlanta, Birmingham, […]
2019 is underway and the battle for the best live TV streaming services is heating up. As we wait for newcomers like T-Mobile TV to hit the market current providers are fighting to be the best live TV streaming service. With 8 very popular live TV services it is harder than ever to pick the […]
Yesterday DIRECTV NOW announced that it had lost 267,000 subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2018. This instantly started a flood of finger pointing that cord cutting is coming to an end. Yet at the same time, DIRECTV and U-Verse TV lost 750,000 subscribers in 2018, cord cutting is still quickly growing. So why did […]
AT&T had a bad 2018 when it came to TV. According to reports, AT&T lost 750,000 subscribers across DIRECTV and U-Verse TV. In total AT&T has 24.5 million video subscribers including 1.6 million DIRECTV NOW subscribers. This is down from 25.2 million at the end of 2017. This is on top of the DIRECTV NOW […]
Today AT&T announced that DIRECTV NOW lost 267,000 subscribers in the 4th quarter of 2018. This is compared to the 3rd quarters of 2018 when DIRECTV NOW added 49,000 subscribers. AT&T has been warning that DIRECTV NOW would likely lose subscribers now that has come true. In total AT&T lost 391,000 TV subscribers across all […]
This week Tivo announced their 4th quarter 2018 report on the current state of TV. Part of this study looked at the most popular streaming services including live TV streaming services. According to that study, YouTube TV is now the most popular live TV streaming services with 11.9% of their subscribers using the service. YouTube […]
Last year PBS announced efforts to launch on live TV streaming services like Hulu and YouTube TV. They carefully warned though that well PBS owns the rights to many of the syndicated shows the local content is owned by 350 some member stations that PBS as a parent company does not own or control. This […]
In November 2018, AT&T held their annual analyst’s days to discuss upcoming strategies for 2019. During that talk, AT&T warned analysts that DIRECTV NOW will likely lose subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2018 and into 2019. Yet they still expect increased profitability in streaming video thanks to recent DIRECTV NOW price hikes and lower […]
DIRECTV NOW has been known for some crazy good deals to get subscribers. Now we are getting an idea of just how many people took them up on this deal. During a talk at the 2019 Global TMT West Conference in Las Vegas, AT&T Chief Financial Officer John Stephens said, “At the end of the […]