Category: DIRECTV
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PlayStation Vue Reportedly Has 800K Subscribers & YouTube TV Reportedly Tops 1 Million Subscribers
Finding out exact subscriber numbers for some streaming services like PlayStation Vue and YouTube TV can be difficult. Often they do not announce subscriber numbers. Now thanks to eMarketer we are getting a good idea of how well these services are doing. According to eMarketer PlayStation Vue now has over 800,000 subscribers and YouTube TV…
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PlayStation Vue Has the Most Satisfied Subscribers Beating Out Sling TV & YouTube TV
Today the ACSI released their yearly American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) giving us a look at the current state of live TV streaming. According to that report, PlayStation Vue was the live TV streaming service with the most satisfied customers. “Video streaming once again proves itself to be the best of the telecom industries in…
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AT&T’s CEO Expects DIRECTV NOW & DIRECTV Losses to Increase in the Second Quarter of 2019
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson gave a talk about the current state of AT&T at a J.P. Morgan Conference. A lot of news was made about his announcement of a new “thin” version of DIRECTV and how AT&T is trying to get low revenue customers to cancel. One thing that slipped through the cracks was a…
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Cord Cutting Today #55 – DIRECTV NOW $10 Off For 6 Months, Fire TV Growth, & More
Did you know we have a daily YouTube cord cutting newscast? Cord Cutting Today look sat the biggest Cord Cutting stories from the past 24 hours in about five or so minutes. We will post these Monday through Friday in an effort to help keep you up to date on everything happening in the world…
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AT&T’s CEO Wants You To Cancel DIRECTV NOW & DIRECTV
DIRECTV NOW and DIRECTV have seen a huge drop in subscribers recently. Just in the 1st quarter of 2019, AT&T lost over 500,000 subscribers and AT&T is happy about that. That is not what I am saying but what AT&T’s CEO & President, Randall Stephenson said during a talk at the J.P. Morgan Conference earlier…
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DIRECTV NOW is Once Again Offering $10 Off For Six Months
Did you recently leave DIRECTV NOW? AT&T wants you back and is once again offering former customers $10 off a month for 6 months if you come back. The best part is you can even get your old grandfathered DIRECTV NOW package back. This offer is only for former customers, and you need to check…
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Sling TV’s President Thinks AT&T is Being “Anti-Competitive”
Back when AT&T was in trial with the DOJ fighting to buy Time Warner Sling TV’s President Warren Schlichting testified against the merger. Today at the Pay-TV Show he said he thinks the fears raised back during that trial have come true AT&T is being “anti-competitive.” How exactly AT&T is being anti-competitive was not disclosed…
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Sling TV, PlayStation Vue, Hulu, & More Added 500,000 Subscribers in The 1st Quarter of 2019
Today at the Pay-TV Show Marci Ryvicker the Managing Director of Wolf Research announced that they believe live TV streaming services like Sling TV, PlayStation Vue, Hulu, and others added about 500,000 subscribers in the 1st quarter of 2019. We also learned for Leicnman that Pay-TV providers overall lost 1.325 million subscribers during the same…
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AT&T Plans to Launch a “Thin” Streaming Version of DIRECTV This Year But Expect DIRECTV Losses to Continue
Today AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said he expects DIRECTV’s rapid subscriber decline will continue in 2019. According to Randall, Stephenson AT&T plans to let lower revenue customers leave the service as their contracts expire. Mr. Stephenson did give us an update on DIRECTV’s new streaming services. According to Mr. Stephenson AT&T plans to launch it’s…
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Did DIRECTV NOW & A+E Reach An Agreement Saving A+E, History, and Lifetime? We Take a Look…
A few weeks ago, A+E Networks warned viewers of a possible blackout. That deadline came and passed with A+E agreeing to an extension to continue to offer A+E networks including A+E, Lifetime, and History on DIRECTV NOW. A+E Networks even launched a website called KeepMyChannels.com to push AT&T to keep A+E Networks. Now it looks…