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The deal with Amphenol Corp. will enable the indebted tech vendor to pay its bills through next year, but it comes at the cost of one of its most profitable businesses

Despite roll-offs of introductory discounts, average revenue per customer declined

Amazon has reportedly put together a poison pill that would require WBD to come up with $5.4 billion immediately in order to match its offer

Also in this week’s ‘Next Text,’ we ponder Apple’s 72 Emmy noms … and its 71 total viewers. We also look at improved streaming UX, and we discover this TV show called ‘Lost‘

Newhart was a television comedy fixture in the 1970s and ’80s

But the stock is still down in after-hours trading because Wall Street doesn't like Q3 sales guidance

Verizon myPlan and myHome customers get a year free of the $23-a-month, no-ads, four-users-at-once, 4K-enabled Netflix service by signing up for the $8-a-month Peacock Premium

Comcast says its remaining X1 customers will see the Games in high-bitrate 4K, Dolby Vision picture quality and Dolby Atmos immersive audio

The cable operator will expand availability of its Android TV-powered Stream gadget, while tacking on a new sports-less offering with more than 80 live channels

The pact could ultimately be worth six times the $50 million-a-season expiring deal, with the league able to add more partners down the road

FX ends up with 93 Emmy nominations, an all-time high for the network ... and two more than HBO

Lates cable mobile launch comes despite recent research reports indicating that only Comcast and Charter have the network resources available to make the margins work

Is Pluto’s old-style program guide interface setting it back in the race for FAST supremacy?

Fox's game coverage is viewable for free in UHD for Sling Blue subscribers in 16 major DMAs with certain Roku and Amazon Fire TV devices

MoffettNathanson's latest quarterly SVOD report shows the Apple platform lagging behind other major U.S. subscription streaming services

Currently trading at a fraction of its peak 3 years ago, the TV programmer gets abruptly dropped by research company

The bankrupt Bally Sports operator has a hard deadline to finally present a restructuring plan on July 29. A carriage deal with Comcast sure would help

Also in this week’s ‘Next Text,’ we ponder AMC’s long, slow march to irrelevance, the power of bundles, and Mario Gabelli’s quest to put Shari Redstone in a fishbowl

The Republican presidential candidate rose to his feet with a bloodied ear and was quickly whisked away by Secret Service

The NFL commissioner also says the league ‘feels very strongly about its position’ and is ‘committed to following the litigation all the way’

As the $3,500 mixed reality rig gets ready to debut in Europe on Friday, IDC does say that a lower priced version, as well as more content, could spark demand

The 20-year-old DVD kiosk rental biz, which peaked in 2012 with 43,500 locations nationwide, will be broken up and sold at auction

Forget ‘Netflix and chill,’ these young whippersnappers are leaving behind our whole professionally produced way of life!

Hulu already booked Jim Gaffigan for a November special

Missouri becomes the 14th state to restrict its municipalities from charging streaming services cable-like right-of-way fees