Executive Brief: Streaming Video Services: Beyond the Tipping Point
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New Publication From Media Institute’s Digital Media Center Examines Rise in Streaming Video and Trends To Watch
‘Streaming Video Services: Beyond the Tipping Point’ Is New Executive Brief FOR RELEASE: December 7, 2022 Contact: Richard T. Kaplar The Media Institute 703-506-8030 Arlington, Va., December 7, 2022 – Streaming video platforms surpassed cable and broadcast TV as the most popular form of television viewing for the first time ever in 2022. A [...]
The Residential Broadband Market Is Evolving as Consumers Seek Bundled Services
The broadband market is ripe for change as traditional services fully mature, and participants seek to maximize profitability and new revenue streams. Consumers now value technology more than ever and are increasingly seeking new applications, including wi-fi services and various value-added bundled services. Parks Associates’ industry report “Residential Broadband: State of the Market” evaluates the [...]
Senate Democrats Seek FTC Investigation of Twitter
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 11-17-22 Senate Democrats are massing along a new front in the war with Big Tech and Elon Musk is in the line of fire. A powerful group of senators led by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) has asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate potential consumer-protection laws by Twitter, which [...]
FCC Chief Rosenworcel Open to Beefing Up Agency’s Power Over Retrans Disputes
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 11-15-22 FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel has told Congress she would welcome the chance to work with it to better protect consumers during retransmission-consent disputes, a point she has made before in discussing retrans-related blackouts. She expressed her view in a letter to Rhode Island’s congressional delegation, whose members had [...]
Adonis Hoffman CNN Interview About Tik Tok
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Big Tech Seeks Supreme Court Review of Online ‘Must-Carry’ Law
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 10-24-22 Computer companies and edge providers are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on the issue of whether state governments can impose what the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) is branding must-carry for online platforms and a “road map” for those wishing to fill the Internet [...]
N.Y. Governor, Attorney General Seek New Social Media Restrictions
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 10-18-22 Invoking YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, Reddit, Twitch, and others, as well as fringe site 4chan, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James are calling for a government crackdown on online platforms, saying they contributed to the Buffalo mass shooting that left 10 dead and three injured. [...]
Media Institute To Honor Lester Holt of NBC News and Documentarian Ken Burns At ‘Free Speech America’ Virtual Gala on Oct. 19
Event Celebrates Free Speech Week Taking Place Across America Oct. 17-23 FOR RELEASE: October 18, 2022 Contact: Richard T. Kaplar The Media Institute 703-506-8030 Vienna, Va., October 18, 2022 – The Media Institute will bestow awards on Lester Holt, anchor and managing editor of “NBC Nightly News” and anchor of “Dateline NBC,” and renowned [...]
DOJ’s Jonathan Kanter: Big Tech Is a Mole That Needs Antitrust Whacking
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 9-19-22 Big Tech is a threat to liberty and a big mole that needs whacking, a la the arcade game where the object is to bash as many of them on the head as possible. That was the message of the Justice Department’s antitrust chief in a fiery speech [...]