The top 10 service providers in the US that provide figures collectively lost 862,800 television subscribers in the third quarter of 2020, according to the informitv Multiscreen Index. Eight of the top 10 services in the US lost

AT&T is still considering selling off a “significant minority stake in DirecTV”. According to a report by business news channel CNBC, various Venture Capitalist funds, including Apollo Management, are planning to make bids. However, the bad news for AT&T is that the cash under consideration would value DirecTV at less than $15 billion. That’s a […]

AT&T reported a drop in Q3 revenues and profit, due mainly to the impact of the pandemic on its entertainment business. Quarterly revenues fell to $42.3 billion from $44.6 billion in the year-ago quarter. WarnerMedia was down 10 per cent affected by the pandemic measures, while mobile service revenues (-0.3 per cent) suffered from lower […]

Veteran television executive Peter Roth will leave his job as chairman of Warner Bros Television Group early in 2021, the AT&T Inc-owned studio has confirmed. Roth, who has worked at Warner Bros for 22 years, oversaw development of several hit shows including The West Wing, The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men, The […]

Technology and solutions development organisation the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) has launched the Next G Alliance, an industry initiative aimed at advancing North American mobile technology leadership in 6G and beyond over the next decade. The Next G Alliance will encompass the full lifecycle of research and development, manufacturing, standardisation and market readiness. […]

Reports from the US say that pay-TV giant DirecTV, owned by telco AT&T, is definitely up for sale and that some bids are already being submitted. The New York Post said that “lowball bids” were actively being made and coming mostly from private equity interests. Goldman Sachs is handling the process. The newspaper says that […]

The prospects of some sort of merger of satellite operators in North America, between Charlie Ergen’s Dish Network and AT&T’s DirecTV, or perhaps a European consolidation between SES and Eutelsat, has generated plenty of media comment over the past weeks. However, a virtual meeting of senior executives on September 24 at the Avia (Asia Video […]

AT&T is struggling to find a potential buyer for its DirecTV Latin American satellite DTH business which trades as Vrio. Bloomberg reports that AT&T’s CEO John Stankey is looking to dump non-essential and non-performing divisions under the AT&T umbrella. It lists the AT&T divisions now up for sale and which includes the whole or part […]

While the market assesses the probability of AT&T divesting its 100 per cent ownership of DirecTV, it is clear that there are currently more questions than answers. Analysts at MoffettNathanson (MN), in a note to clients,