Venu Sports is officially dead: Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Fox are scrapping the controversial sports streaming service to focus on existing products.

DirecTV and Dish challenge the Disney-Fubo merger: Legal fight over Venu Sports launch highlights antitrust concerns in sports streaming.

There won’t be a Dish-DirecTV merger: Debtholders quashed the deal, which would have helped buy time to stave off linear’s decline.

There won’t be a Dish-DirecTV merger: Debtholders quashed the deal, which would have helped buy time to stave off linear’s decline.

Despite the rise of connected TV, over-the-air programming remains a vital part of the television ecosystem, engaging millions of viewers outside the scope of big data. Learn how comprehensive measurement strategies can ensure that every viewer counts, no matter how they choose to watch.

New data sets, often referred to as big data, are revolutionizing the way we understand television viewing patterns. Find out how these insights are benefiting both buyers and sellers in the media industry.

As US smart TV ownership climbs to 70.6%, Nielsen is leveraging larger, more diverse data sets to refine its audience measurement for the 2024–2025 TV season. This strategic enhancement aims to deliver more accurate and actionable audience segmentation to better support media stakeholders.

Netflix and YouTube are siphoning subscription revenues from pay TV’s losses. By the end of 2025, more than half of US video subscription revenues will go to streaming services.

Digital pay TV services are slowing cord-cutting. But the rate at which they replace traditional TV defectors is decelerating.

As more people cut the cord, viewers are increasingly tuning in to live digital video services.

More people are leaving pay TV for digital alternatives, as TV networks increase their subscription costs and end promotional prices.

Ad dollars and viewers are pouring into digital video platforms as the TV industry continues to lose subscribers.

eMarketer forecasting analyst Eric Haggstrom walks us through the current cord-cutting climate, explains why CBS is suing Locast and what Dish has been up to. Vice president of content studio Paul Verna joins the discussion to chat about streaming service password sharing, a new Facebook TV video-calling device, Spotify Q2 results and more.

Affordable pay TV plans have kept sports broadcasting largely within traditional channels in Mexico, but consumer demand for live video on all screens is pushing media giants to offer streaming options and opening opportunities for outside players.