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May 2017

No-Ad Basketball got a tryout on Fox Sports 2. The pay-TV channel telecast a women’s basketball game in December with a main live stream, two additional live streams for the coaches, and live audio...

- Mark Fleischmann

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Free DirecTV Now? That’s what T-Mobile is offering to AT&T Wireless subscribers who activate two lines and transfer their cell numbers to T-Mobile ONE. So T-Mobile is using an AT&T-owned video service to poach mobile customers from AT&T—cue demonic laughter...

Smart TV Platforms are consolidating. Ten TV makers are using Roku and Chromecast in lieu of rolling their own...

Interactive Movie Extras are being added to Comcast’s X1 video platform. Titles from Lionsgate, Paramount, Sony, and Universal will get elements such as photo galleries and video clips that are updated as the movie unspools...

Sinclair’s TBD is a digital multicast network aimed at millennials. Multicast means TV stations will carry it as a secondary channel, allowing broadcasters to seek new revenue while leaving traditional network and independent channels intact...

The AT&T–Time Warner Merger drew fire from consumer groups Public Knowledge and the Consumer Federation of America. Pointing at companies like Comcast, Charter, and Verizon, they say “rejecting the merger will be an important step in stopping the growth of the tight oligopoly on steroids”...

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