Daniel Frankel

This week, we also ponder faster streaming gadgets, how AI is raising the dole and the dead ... and just who sucked out the feeling?

Users of high-end Roku Ultra gadgets can display up to four simultaneous streams at once

The cable giants announce a partnership with chipmaker Broadcom to develop a unified ‘DOCSIS 5.0’ network tech standard

In this week's column, we also look at the WNBA's big (and NBC's infinitesimally small) ratings wins, we finally switch over to Threads ... and we examine the power of the New York TV market

Startup hockey franchise and UtahHC+ are owned by Ryan Smith, who previously tied up his Utah Jazz with Kiswe

DirecTV becomes the first major pay TV company to announce distribution of the new Chicago Sports Network

Our weekly back-and-forth also looks at the big Disney-DirecTV deal, Synamedia's 'Senza' cloud-based streaming dongle ... and the terrifying Big Ten fate of the once-proud UCLA football program

The nation's third largest pay TV operator has around 11 million customers left

Disney networks have been blacked out on DirecTV since Sept. 1

Also in this week's 'Next Text,' we ponder what the Internet has taken from us ... as we look to surrender to AI

Will the return of football rekindle Google virtual pay TV service’s once-incendiary growth?

Hub Entertainment Research survey shows a slight decrease in the number of folks who say they use someone else's SVOD service

DirecTV CFO Ray Carpenter says it was Disney's call to black out its channels right before a highly anticipated nationally televised college football opener

Also in this week's 'Next Text,' we ponder the new Gotham Sports App, The Trade Desk's entry into the TVOS biz ... and a new creative vision for Hollywood films

Disney made a last-minute demand that DirecTV refrain from any legal action, source says

Launching before the NBA and NHL seasons tip off, new JV platform combines the MSG Plus and YES apps at a $12-a-month savings

Barring a dramatic last-minute turn of negotiating events, ESPN and ABC will be blacked out for 11 million DirecTV subscribers on Sept. 1

Surprise exit to local broadcast leaves bankrupt RSN Diamond Sports Group with just eight remaining NHL teams

Cable giant will stop providing the video security devices on October 24

Reported move comes after Amazon secures its own NBA and NHL rights

Move follows a similar hit for Cable One two weeks ago

Warner tried to ‘match’ Amazon’s streaming rights package with a linear one, league contends

Also in this week's 'Next Text,' we break down Kamala Harris' Bigger DNC crowd sizes, and we look at how the Venu Sports guys really messed up

Cable operator reached broad-reaching carriage agreement with Paramount Global back in May that let it offer Paramount Plus Essentials at no additional cost to subscribers

OpenVault’s latest quarterly usage report also found that monthly average data usage was up 9.7% year over year to 585.8 GB in Q2