Dish to Sling new live online TV, with ESPN, for $20 a month

Televised sports are the biggest reason cable and satellite customers don’t cancel their subscriptions for online alternatives, surveys show. That gives cable and satellite companies little incentive to stream games online. But Dish Network is betting its future on a stand-alone streaming service that includes the most popular TV sports network, ESPN, and a dozen other top channels for just… Read More

SBCA’s Annual Leadership Luncheon To Tackle Today’s Telecoms Realm, Trends + Concerns For SatBroadcasting™

SBCA’s Annual Leadership Luncheon To Tackle Today’s Telecoms Realm, Trends + Concerns For SatBroadcasting™ On January 6, 2015, the Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association (SBCA) it will be holding its 2015 Leadership Luncheon Panel in Las Vegas. The emergence of digital technology has placed many traditional industries at significant risk. However, it has also provided them with access to… Read More

NAB 2014

Super Session, titled “Consumers, 4K, and Next Generation Home Entertainment: Which Experiences Will Most Excite Them?,” moderated by The Carmel Group’s chairman and CSO, Jimmy Schaeffler; including Disney/ABC’s CTO Vince Roberts; Technicolor’s CTO, Vince Pizicca; Vubiquity’s CEO, Darcy Antonellis; CEA’s Sr. VP, Brian Markwalter; LG’s Sr. VP, Communications, John Taylor.” Read More

Next TV 2013

Location: San Francisco Panel titled “Original Premium Content for OTT & Internet Channels,”moderated by The Carmel Group’s chairman and CSO, Jimmy Schaeffler; including panelists Allison Girvin of the Huffington Post; Joe Michael of Microsoft; Michael Vree or PBS; Tom Ashley of Flightflix; and Joanne Waage of MobiTV.” Read More

Some Post-IBC and -Automechanika ’14 Show Thoughts…

My 10-day European excursion ended a week ago Monday (following another horrendous experience with United Airlines), with visits for three days each to the International Broadcasting Conference 2014 in Amsterdam; Messe Frankfurt’s Automechanika 2014 in Frankfurt; and to one of the world’s largest (and best) fixed satellite services (FSS) providers, SES, in the tiny principality between Francfe and Germany, called… Read More