Verizon Custom Pay TV Packages will start at $65 per Month


So Verizon is starting a new custom pay TV program in which their customers will be able to choose the channels they want to see. So consumers will be able to choose the channels for every month....

Dish aims to launch Web TV Service


LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dish says it plans to launch its Internet-delivered TV service by year's end on mobile devices, game consoles and smart TVs for about $20 to $30 a month. It will contain live...

Comcast’s Time Warner Deal Faces Hurdles in Washington


Comcast's surprising announcement of a deal to buy Time Warner Cable for $45 billion is being met with outrage by consumer advocates, concern by politicians, and uncertainty by Wall Street. Bringing...

Apple is in Talks with Disney’s ESPN, HBO and Viacom for Internet Pay TV Service


Hot thing in TV industry these days is to implement new internet-based pay TV service that will use apps instead of channels to provide content. Apple also joined the race. Tech giant is reportedly...

Netflix adds The Weinstein Company to its 2016 pay-TV exclusivity roster

2016 is shaping up to be huge for Netflix. That's when the streaming juggernaut's Disney deal starts bearing fruit and it also marks the start of a multi-year pay-TV exclusivity agreement with The Weinstein Company (TWC). This means the first stop for TWC's flicks after home video will no longer be Showtime, but (almost) everybody's favorite place to watch movies instantly instead. While the studio has a pretty impressive back catalog -- Django Unchained, Silver Linings Playbook, The Road and ... Scary Movie 5 -- it isn't in the class of, say, Universal or Fox in terms of sheer blockbusters. With the rate 'flix is signing contracts though, who knows what could happen within the next three years.

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Sony is Close to Viacom Deal for Internet Pay TV Service


Tech giant Sony is reportedly planning to launch an all new internet version of Pay TV. The Japanese firm is working on its unique online Pay TV service that will stream cable channels and on-...

WSJ: Sony looking to launch online cable competitor, in talks with Viacom, Disney

Sony's reportedly made some headway on a solution that may well convince a number of subscribers to cut their cable cords once and for all. According to The Wall Street Journal's usual gang of anonymous sources, the electronics giant is in talks with several high profile media organizations to help populate an internet-based service that will stream channels and offer up on-demand content. The offering, which Sony is apparently looking to launch by the end of the year, would be the realization of some long time aspirations. Viacom is apparently at top of the list of potential partners, as the home of channels like MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon. That deal is said to be in the preliminary agreement stage, news that comes a few weeks after Viacom inked a deal with Twitter. According to the WSJ, Sony's also been holding meetings with a number of other content providers like Disney, Time Warner and CBS. All parties involved have, naturally, refused to comment.

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Source: The Wall Street Journal