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The end of the pay-TV era: AT&T gets behind HBO Max

Tim Mulligan

28 Jul 2020

Video

at&t

HBO Max

The Q2 2020 AT&T financial results were not pretty. Net income for the company was down 61% year-on-year (YoY). While operating expenses were down marginally by 0.1%, the real cost to the communications major came from two fronts – its massive corporate debt pile and its imploding video subscriber base.

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Why AT&T is Renewing Its Fox Distribution Relationship

Tim Mulligan

19 Nov 2018

21CF

AT & T

DirectTV Now

Yesterday , leading US telco AT&T publicly announced the multi-year renewal of its programme distribution deal with Fox Networks Group. AT&T negotiated the deal with 21stCentury Fox assets, which will go to Disney once their takeover of Fox is finalised early in 2019.

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The Inevitable Video Data Wars

Tim Mulligan

13 Sep 2016

AT & T

Comcast

DirecTV

Netflix’s recent filing to the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) inquiryon advanced broadband sets the stakes for a clash of world views between the TV and the tech worlds. The SVOD giant’s position in support of its argument for increased data caps by Internet providers is as follows: “Watching television shows on the Internet is no longer a novelty.

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