Multichannel Newswire: FXX To Bow on Sept. 2 With 72 Million Subscribers
Top Stories - August 20, 2013
FXX To Bow on Sept. 2 With 72 Million Subscribers Just two days after Fox Sports 1 bowed in a cable-record 90 million homes, Fox officials made it official saying that FXX will launch in 72 million on Sept. 2.more
Major U.S. Pay TV Providers Lost 345,000 Subs In Q2 U.S. cable and satellite TV operators took it on the chin again in the historically weak second quarter, while the telcos pulled in some solid subscriber gains, Leichtman Research Group found in its latest analysis of the pay-TV industry.more
Game Theory Distributors gripe, but networks see paydirt with TV sports.more
AT&T To Extend Digital Life To Six More Markets AT&T will keep the pressure on incumbent home security and automation vendors, as well as new MSO entrants such as Cox and Time Warner Cable, with the launch of its Digital Life platform in six more markets: Orlando, Providence, Virginia Beach, Rochester, Buffalo and Syracuse. more