MCN Newswire: HBO Now Could Include Turner Content
Top Stories - April 30, 2015
HBO Now Could Include Turner Content HBO CEO Richard Plepler didn't provide too much insight into the recently launched Home Box Office standalone product HBO Now, but told analysts during a first-quarter results conference call that the OTT service could be beefed up in the future with additional content from corporate sibling Turner Broadcasting Networks.more
NewFronts 2015: Hulu Cuts Streaming Deal With AMC Hulu has cut a major streaming deal with AMC Networks that includes rights to all future programming from the cabler's five networks, including AMC's upcoming Walking Dead spinoff Fear the Walking Dead.more
T-Mobile CEO Views Cable as Potential Partner T-Mobile CEO John Legere believes further consolidation of the mobile industry is a foregone conclusion, but also views the cable industry as a potential partner to the mobile carrier.more
GOP Hammers FCC Process Under Wheeler Look for House Republicans to take aim at FCC chairman Tom Wheeler for "process failings and procedural irregularities" in his oversight of the agency as a hearing on a trio of bills that would reform those processes gets underway today.more
Former Comcast Co-CFO Larry Smith Dies, 67 Larry Smith, the former co-chief financial officer at Comcast Corp. during a period when the company rose to leadership in the cable industry, died on Tuesday (April 28) at the age of 67, the company said.more