Latest articles by Daniel Frankel
MLB: Bankruptcy Court Needs to Finally Stop Diamond From Continuing to 'Stumble Through the Restructuring Process' After Its 'Failure' to Secure Comcast Distribution Deal
Loss of Comcast revenue renders Bally Sports RSN operator's restructuring plan 'unconfirmable,' league lawyers say in Tuesday court motion
T-Mobile's $26 Billion Sprint Purchase 4 Years Ago Resulted in Markedly Higher Consumer Pricing on Wireless, Report Says
Finnish research company says consumer prices are two to three times higher in markets with three wireless companies vs. those with four
Nielsen Expands Its 'Gauge' to Focus on Cross-Platform Reach By Distributor, and Disney Quite Likes the Tweak (Chart of the Day)
According to Nielsen's new monthly 'Media Distributor Gauge,' Disney controlled an industry-leading 11.5% of U.S. TV viewing in April
Best Bundle Ever? Brian Roberts (and Apple) Make a Shrewd Move By Hooking Up With the Video Business' Most Churn-Resistant Streaming Service
Netflix has maintained an industry-low churn rate of 2%, while the rest of the video business is at 5.5%
Virtual MVPDs Are Only a 'Secondary' Programming Source, Study Says
Relative to traditional pay TV services, half as many surveyed consumers say vMVPDs are the source they watch most often
Netflix Hires Former Sony Exec Doug Belgrad as VP of Film
Belgrad, who left Sony in 2016 and has been producing films including 'Bad Boys for Life' on the Culver City lot ever since, will now report to recently appointed Netflix film chief Dan Lin
Roku and MLB Make It Official, 'Sunday Leadoff' Is Coming to The Roku Channel
New agreement will bring live games from a major American sport to a FAST channel for the first time starting May 19
Why Roasts Are ‘Vile, Mean, Fascist’ Exercises in ‘Punching Down’ … That Netflix Will Probably Now Want To Do Again and Again
Also in this week’s ‘Next Text,’ we rediscover HBO's ‘Hacks,’ the NBC primetime schedule … and basic movie-theater civility
NFL Christmas Day Games on Netflix? It Looks Like It's Happening
A 'bevy of sources' corroborate Boomer Esiason's breathless claims that Netflix is getting into the live NFL game business
Third NBA Rights Option Emerges for David Zaslav and Warner Bros. — Match Amazon’s $1.8 Billion Bid
While telling analysts he didn’t want to discuss NBA negotiations during Thursday’s earnings call, the WBD CEO did want to remind them he could match any third-party offer
Dish Network‘s Pay TV Business: ’A Melting Ice Cube … on a Hot Day’
With Sling TV subscribers dropping below 2 million for the first time in seven years, Dish’s pay TV engine can no longer keep the larger EchoStar enterprise afloat, analyst says
TiVo's Long Smart TV OS Slog Marches on, Adds Japanese OEM, Targets 2 Million Active TVs by EOY
Parent company Xperi still insists that TiVo-powered smart TVs will hit U.S. shelves by the end of 2024
Disney and Warner Set to Bundle Disney Plus, Max and Hulu Starting This Summer
Media companies call their triple streaming play 'the best value in entertainment,' but no price or specific launch day was revealed
Warner Bros. Discovery Reportedly Plans To Cut More Jobs and Budgets, Raise Max Streaming Price
Finishing 2023 with more than $44 billion of debt, media conglomerate looks for more appendages to chop off
Diamond Sends Letter to 'Sports Fans,' Says Comcast Wants to Make Them Pay More to Watch Bally Sports Channels
Losing the early public perception battle in its existential carriage war with Comcast, bankrupt regional sports network goes on offense
WOW! Weighs Takeover Offer From Private Equity
Cable company cancels Q&A for its Q1 earnings as it considers a proposal from DigitalBridge and Crestview
David Zaslav Sidesteps NBA and Paramount M&A Questions at Milken Conference, Bombastically Declares That Exec Pay Should Align With Stock Price
‘We love the NBA,’ the Warner Bros. Discovery CEO said
Disney and Comcast Still Haggling Over Hulu, Hire Third Financial Adviser to Determine Valuation
The two media giants are still trying to agree on how much NBCU's 33% share in the former JV is worth
Chicken Soup for the Soul Raises $175 Million, Hopes to Avoid Bankruptcy
Struggling operator of Redbox kiosks works with its primary lenders to buy some time
Diamond Catching Most of the Viewer Heat in the 18 Markets in Which Its Bally Sports Channels Are Blacked Out on Comcast
While consumers tend to blame pay TV distributors first in these kinds of impasses, the focus of fan ire seems to be the bankrupt programmer this time around
85% of Amazon Prime Video Subscribers Are on the Ad-Supported Tier
This compares to only 22% for Netflix, Hub Entertainment Research finds
Why Audiences Have Turned on Jerry Seinfeld and Other Mysteries of the Media-Entertainment Cosmos
Our latest ‘Next Text’ also ponders, is the NBA In-Season Tournament dead … like TNT? And when addressing Paramount’s ‘Office of the CEO,’ which set of eyes do you look into?
