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Ken Hershman, former Showtime Sports and then HBO Sports President involved in some of the biggest Boxing events over the past 25 years.  Great stories from his 25 years at those networks and beyond from Mike Tyson to Don King and Mayweather vs Pacquiao.  And his latest project and role as CEO of the Clash Basketball Pro League.     Key Highlights Lawyer by training, started in investment banking side – Viacom client, moved to Showtime as in-house lawyer Showtime, premium cable channel in movie space, moving into Boxing (following HBO's footsteps) Broadened offering into Inside NFL, NASCAR show, Strike Force, the Franchise (MLB), Structure of PPV deals in the early days, what really ends up with the Promoter and Fighter First Mayweather vs Pacquiao, record revenues for a fight at the time, big numbers Challenges with scheduling and frequency of fights vs big one-off events Moving from Showtime after 18 years to HBO Sports HBO Sports role and focus (eventually moving out of sports, both Showtime and HBO) Riyadh Season and Influencer Boxing discussion (entertainment vs sports), talent building crucial Stories from Mike Tyson & Don King era – Tyson/Lewis – HBO/Showtime – another bite His favorite fights and Don King stories Beyond the Pay TV business in his career, Champion Gaming lessons and now Managing Director of CTH Advisors New project – launched Clash Basketball Pro League – www.clashbasketball.com , role as CEO   About Widely known in the television sports world for his 30+ year career, Ken is an award-winning and innovative sports television programming executive. Ken is currently Vice Chairman of Champion Gaming, a sports wagering data, analytics and content company whose holdings include leading sports wagering brands EdjSports and Football Outsiders. Ken's background includes significant tenure at leading media companies in a variety of senior management roles, including serving as President, HBO Sports, where he supervised award winning shows such as Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, Hard Knocks, 24/7 and the acclaimed boxing franchises World Championship Boxing, Boxing After Dark and HBO PPV. Ken also brings with him a sophisticated legal background with corporate, finance and securities experience both as an associate at Shearman & Sterling, as well as in-house counsel at Showtime Networks Inc., and sits on advisory boards for a number of companies in the sports, technology and entertainment industries. Ken is a graduate of Fordham University School of Law, where he was a member of the International Law Journal. He received his Bachelor of Science degree, with distinction, from The George Washington University, where he was selected Phi Beta Kappa.   Follow us on our social sites for the latest updates Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sportsentrepreneurs/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marcusluerpodcast LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sports-entrepreneurs Website: https://marcusluer.com Podcast: https://marcusluer.com/podcast To get in touch, please email us at podcast@marcusluer.com Feel Good by MusicbyAden https://soundcloud.com/musicbyaden Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/_feel-good Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/bvgIqqRStcQ

We're back again with another jam packed episode. This week we recap all the action from the weekend's Fight Night, discuss the Ilia Topuria, Oliveira, JDM, Makhachev fight announcements, chat the recent No Limit card, and preview this years Road to the UFC series which features a whole bunch of ANZAC talent! Hit the download button and step into the cage. Use code FOOK10 for 10% off all orders at Engage.

Next in Media spoke with Brian Albert, Managing Director, YouTube Media Partnerships & Creative Works, about YouTube's ascent on the TV screen, how the company plans to bring top creators to the table during upfront talks, and whether brands are about to pull back on commitments amidst all this tariff uncertainty.

This week, we detail Comcast's Q1 earnings, including Peacock's sub gains, thanks to the Charter bundle, with revenue up 16%, on an EBITDA loss of $215M, down from $639M YoY. We also cover all the pay TV losses from Comcast, Verizon, and Charter in the quarter, as well as Comcast's worst broadband losses ever in a quarter. We highlight MSG Networks deal with its lender JPMorgan that allows the RSN to avoid bankruptcy, and the NFL's Commissioner stating that he expects the NFL to return to scheduling a Christmas Day tripleheader in the future. Finally, we discuss Max's password sharing crackdown, YouTube's announcement of 20 million videos uploaded daily, and Twitter having been found guilty of patent infringement relating to streaming technology involving Vine and Periscope. Podcast produced by Security Halt Media

We're back again with another big episode. This week we welcome Colby Thicknesse to the show once again, fresh after his whirlwind debut at UFC 312. We chat all about the last minute call-up, his thoughts on his performance, lessons to be taken from the loss, if he's got another fight lined up in the UFC, Volk's title shot in Miami, and heaps more! We also recap the action from Seattle Fight Night, Joe Parker's KO victory, the Dan Hooker news, plus preview this weeks UFC card thanks to Dabble. Presented by Forty Foot Irish Whiskey. Use code FOOK10 for 10% off all orders at Engage.

On this episode of Inside Content, Toby Russell, CEO of 3Vision, is joined by Dean Possenniskie, Managing Director at Hearst Networks EMEA. They have an in-depth discussion about how the company has evolved from a traditional pay-TV business into a multi-platform media powerhouse. Dean shares how Hearst is expanding into FAST, AVOD, SVOD, and short-form digital content, while maintaining its strong relationships with pay-TV operators like Sky, Vodafone, and Deutsche Telekom. They also explore how data, AI, and new content formats are shaping Hearst's future, the changing role of pay-TV in Europe, and what's next for the company in 2025 and beyond. Stay in the content world loop

On today's podcast episode, we discuss why households with no pay-TV (traditional or digital) will be the majority and if livestream shopping in America can become habitual. Tune in to the conversation with Senior Director of Podcasts and host Marcus Johnson, Principal Forecasting Writer Ethan Cramer-Flood, and Senior Director of Forecasting Oscar Orozco. Listen everywhere and watch on YouTube and Spotify. Follow us on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/emarketer/ For sponsorship opportunities contact us: advertising@emarketer.com For more information visit: https://www.emarketer.com/advertise/ Have questions or just want to say hi? Drop us a line at podcast@emarketer.com  For a transcript of this episode click here: https://www.emarketer.com/content/podcast-behind-numbers-forecasting-trends-2025-digital-pay-tv-petering-why-livestream-shopping © 2025 EMARKETER

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How can business solve humanity's most significant challenges? Why is business the best vehicle to solve them? For the last 35 years, Rinaldo Brutoco has devoted himself to asking – and answering – these crucial questions. The founding president of nonprofit think (and do!) tank the World Business Academy (WBA) and founder and CEO of green hydrogen transportation firm H2 Clipper (H2C), Rinaldo is a trailblazer in both the theory and practice of sustainable business solutions. Rinaldo graduated from Santa Clara University with degrees in economics and philosophy and later received a J.D. from UCLA School of Law in 1971. His career has had many remarkable turns – pioneer in consumer law, Inc. 500 CEO, author, lecturer, and co-founder of the world's first paid cable TV company. Behind all these turns was an unshakeable conviction that business could – must – be a force for good, driving Rinaldo to found the WBA in 1987 to explore the role of business in addressing serious moral, environmental, and social issues around the world. The think tank has since been responsible for initiatives like the Optimist Daily newsletter, Safe Energy Project, Global Citizen's Club, and the New Business Paradigms podcast. As of 2011, Rinaldo has been practicing what he has preached with the launch of H2C, a firm pioneering a low cost, effective, end-to-end transport and distribution system for green hydrogen. Its revolutionary approach tackles the biggest obstacle to the widespread adoption of hydrogen while also producing a scalable, carbon-free alternative to fossil fuels that's powered by Rinaldo's patented generative AI manufacturing technology. Hear Rinaldo talk about his unique path to clean energy visionary, the importance of teaching entrepreneurship as a noble profession, and why paid cable was a source of good for the world. Episode Highlights:00:00 Rinaldo Brutoco on the rise of pay TV00:49 Conor Gaughan introduces Rinaldo, WBA, and H2 Clipper04:38 Entrepreneurial interests, UCLA law, Nader's Raiders17:09 Businesses for good, meditation, third party perspectives 25:16 Launching paid cable, having a vision, pitching investors34:55 Modern entertainment, generative A.I, merchant banking46:53 Creating impact, shareholder motivation, finding inspiration51:50 Where to learn more and end credits If you liked this episode, listen next to Ben Bressler of Natural Habitat Adventures on Nature, Travel, and Pursuing Your PassionMore on Rinaldo Brutoco, World Business Academy, and H2 Clipper:linkedin.com/company/world-business-academy linkedin.com/company/h2clipper linkedin.com/in/rinaldo-brutoco-b052a2 optimistdaily.com Connect with Conor Gaughan on linkedin.com/in/ckgone and threads.net/@ckgoneHave questions, or a great idea for a potential guest? Email us at CiC@consensus-digital.com If you enjoyed this episode, please rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts and Spotify – it really makes a difference! Consensus in Conversation is a podcast by Consensus Digital Media produced in...

eMarketer says that 20 million more viewers will consume live sports on streaming than on pay-TV this year, with the gap more than doubling by 2027. Listen on for the implications!

Currently serving as CCO at Vox Group, global leader for innovative tech solutions in tourism and culture, Claudio has 20+ years of experience in building innovative digital products and ventures. He co-founded Musement (now TUI Musement), which was successfully acquired by TUI Group in 2018, where he served for more than 10 years as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Supply Officer, and where he's still involved as Strategic Advisor. He's also Adjunct Professor in Digital Innovation at the University of Pavia and Academic Fellow at Bocconi University. His career included significant roles with Pay-TV operators (Sky Italia), Telcos (Fastweb, TIM, TS), TV networks (DeA Digital), and tech manufacturers (Philips, Panasonic). Additionally, he's an investor and serves as board member in several companies, including P101 (VC), Civitfun (travel tech), Jampy (food-tech). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dylanconroy/support

On this week's show we discuss the Tivo Video Trends Report and we read your emails and and take a look at the week's news. News: Streamers bet on food partners to help reduce churn Samsung Reveals Its Reach: Free Streaming TV Service Is As Big as the Major Players A Growing Number of Cord Cutters Don't Plan to Buy a New Streaming Device in 2024, Spelling Trouble for the Tech Giants Other: 10 of the world's most expensive turntables | What Hi-Fi? TiVo Video Trends Report As we look at the content ecosystem in Q2 2024, consumers are noticeably scaling back their spend on content and as a result, the number of sources they utilize for video. In this iteration of the Video Trends Report, we continue to see respondents supplement their video bundle and save money by turning to ad-supported services. In fact, the ratio of SVOD consumers utilizing lower-cost, ad-supported tiers has increased across the board, while the share of consumers utilizing ad-free SVOD services has dropped almost 18% year-over-year. Some key findings: 84.5% of respondents are prone to browsing before landing on a show or movie. 77.8% of all respondents noted that they are at least tolerant of ads. 63% of respondents noted reducing their entertainment spending. 61.7% of respondents noted using at least one AVOD/FAST service in Q2. 22% of Pay TV subscribers cut the cord then later resubscribed to traditional TV service. Average number of video sources reverting back to 2022 levels Q2 22/Q2 23/Q2 24 Average Total Services 9.9 10.9 9.1 Avg Paid Services 6.7 6.9 5.7 Avg Non-paid Services 3.2 4.0 3.4 Household income does have an impact on the number of sources used, but it does not appear to be as substantial of a driver as demographics like age or geography. At the low end of less than $20K you have about 10 sources for 2023 and 2024. Households with incomes of $200K or more saw an increase from 10 sources in 2023 to about 14 in 2024.  Percentage of Respondents Who Watch on Each Device Q2 22/Q2 23/Q2 24 TV 81.0% 78.9% 81.3% Smartphone 50.6% 60.2% 51.8% Tablet 29.2% 30.9% 25.3% Computer 36.6% 37.3% 33.7% When it comes to discovery methods, the percentage of those who find out about new TV shows or movies from commercials has declined 3% year-over-year. In comparison, word of mouth and recommendations from friends continue to remain the most commonly used method of discovery. Top Methods of Discovery  % of all respondents/YoY Change Word of mouth / friends 50.1% +4.8% Commercials or ads that run during other shows 40.6% -2.9% Social media 39.7% +2.3% Streaming apps / home screen / carousel ads 39.3% +5.9% Suggestions in my pay-TV channel guide or menus 27.9% +1.0% Print, outdoor and/or online banner advertisements 14.3% +6.9% News articles or stories outside social media 9.7% -6.7% Emails or newsletters from streaming services 9.6% -0.1% Radio 7.8% +0.7% Daily viewership is largely consistent; Importance of local news drops 5% YoY. Fifty Four percent think local content is somewhat or very important compared to 59% in Q2 2023. Twenty One percent of all time spent watching video is spent watching local content, compared to 22.6% in Q2 2023. 27% of car owners report watching video in the car. This is down 13% from last year. Top Reasons for Watching Video In-Car To pass the time while waiting in the car 49.6% To keep children entertained 45.1% To pass the time on long road trips 34.7% To pass the time while commuting 31.6% To pass the time while filling up at the gas station 26.8% To watch something immediately/couldn't wait to watch it later 20.0% To pass the time while charging an electric vehicle 18.4% SVOD churn declines as more respondents turn to ad-supported tiers. Eighty Four Percent utilize SVOD services. This is a slight decline from 88.0% this time last year. SVOD Viewing Habits TV 67.9% Smartphone 12.5% Computer 11.5% Tablet 8.% Transactional video on demand (TVOD) usage takes a hit in Q2 2024; Amazon remains firmly at the top. Forty Four percent use a TVOD service. This is down about 6% from 50.8% in Q2 2023, seemingly driven primarily by a decrease among pay-TV subscribers. Number of TVOD purchases per year Q2 2022 9.1%,  Q2 2023 11.3%, Q2 2024 7.3% Forty Six percent have not gone to the movie theater in over a year.  In fact, only 32.2% report that they'll most likely see a new movie in the theater (down roughly 2% year-over-year), compared to 55.5% who would most likely wait to stream it. Reasons respondents prefer to stream new releases at home It costs us more than $30 to actually go to the movies 46.7% It's too much of a hassle to go to the movie theater 33.2% You can't pause the movie at the theater 30.7% I have a great TV/sound system at home 29.6% I have better snacks at home 26.1% The movie theaters near me aren't very good 15.6% Movie theater seats are uncomfortable 15.1% Other theatergoers are loud, rude, etc. 14.9% You don't have to sit through ads and previews at home 14.8% I don't want to get sick 10.9% Sixty Seven percent of all free AVOD/FAST viewers noted watching some form of free live streaming TV or FAST channels, which in Q2 2024 accounts for roughly 51% the viewing time of all free AVOD/ FAST services. This has remained relatively flat year-over-year. Top Free AVOD/FAST Services (Most popular to least popular) Tubi Pluto TV Roku Channel Freevee Samsung TV Plus Crackle Vudu Global TV Plex CBC Gem Ad Tolerance by Service Type  Averse to ads (avoid watching ads during video) Tolerant of ads (don't mind watching ads sometimes) In favor of ads (I prefer to watch ads during video instead of paying) Averse/Tolerant/In Favor Pay TV 23.7% 63% 13.3% SVOD (Ad-Supported) 17.0% 69.5% 13.6% SVOD (Ad-free) 24.3% 64.2% 11.5% Free AVOD/FAST 20.7% 65.1% 14.2% VMVPD 26.8% 60.9% 12.3% Social Video/UGC 22.1% 65.3% 12.6% Free AVOD/FAST users report the excessive and repetitive nature of ads as top reasons for their ad-aversion.  

We're back with another huge episode! This week it's a double banger with 2 massive guests. First we sit down with the newest Aussie UFC star, Jono Micallef. Fresh from securing a contract on Dana White's Contender Series, we chat all about his journey to get to this point and a whole heap more! Then we sit down with social media superstar Tedsthetics for an action packed UFC 308 recap. Plenty of laughs to be had. Hit the download button and step into the cage! Use code FOOK10 for 10% off all orders at Engage.

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Il 15 ottobre entrerà in funzione il Portale delle segnalazioni dell’Agcom (Autorità per le garanzie nelle comunicazioni). Attraverso il Portale gli utenti potranno inviare le segnalazioni all’Autorità in modo semplice e intuitivo: si tratta delle segnalazioni attualmente trasmesse all’Agcom mediante i Modelli D e P per le violazioni commesse nei settori relativi a comunicazioni elettroniche, servizio media audiovisivi e Pay TV, postale. Ne parliamo con Giovanni Santella, vice-segretario generale e direttore tutela consumatori Agcom.In apertura di puntata, come ogni lunedì, commentiamo l'apertura settimanale dei mercati finanziari. L'ospite di MeteoBorsa è Marco Monastero - Head of Advisory Business di Jupiter AM.

Charter is working on its latest pay-TV strategy to hold onto and hopefully expand its subscriber count. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Stephen Grootes speaks toLeslie Adams, Sales Director at streaming experts Reach Africa about the shifting media landscape and what DStv's annual results reveal about the future of pay-TV.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Stephen Grootes speaks to Patrick Conry about the evolving media landscape, covering Pay TV's decline, the rise of free satellite TV, generational shifts to mobile, streaming's impact, and game-changers like Starlink and LEO satellite services.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

DirecTV just reached an agreement to acquire Dish Network, which would make it the largest Pay-TV provider in the US. This deal came together to save the debt-ridden Dish brand and lump 2 cable providers into one unit, but can it get through regulatory approval? And is cable now really on its last leg? Plus: Epic sues Google again and Zuckerberg's riches grow even more. Join our hosts Jon Weigell and Rob Litterst as they take you through our most interesting stories of the day. Get our Entrepreneurship Trends Report here https://clickhubspot.com/teh Follow us on social media: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thehustle.co Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thehustledaily/ Thank You For Listening to The Hustle Daily Show. Don't forget to hit Subscribe or Follow us on Apple Podcasts so you never miss an episode! If you want this news delivered to your inbox, join millions of others and sign up for The Hustle Daily newsletter, here: https://thehustle.co/email/  Plus! Your engagement matters to us. If you are a fan of the show, be sure to leave us a 5-Star Review on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hustle-daily-show/id1606449047 (and share your favorite episodes with your friends, clients, and colleagues).

Today on America in the Morning   More Help Needed For Helene State and Federal leaders are promising help to communities impacted by the destruction of Helene, which has claimed the lives of more than 100 people, and the death toll is expected to climb. Clayton Neville reports Helene is predicted to become one of the costliest storms to ever hit the US.     VP Debate Preview Ohio Senator JD Vance and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz will face off tonight in what has become a high-stakes Vice Presidential contest as the race for the White House between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris is a virtual dead heat. Correspondent Steve Futterman has a preview.     Latest On The Dockworker's Strike Supply chain issues have caused a lot of angst in America when there were problems at West Coast ports, and now a dockworker's strike that began at midnight is expected to cause even worse problems affecting shipping centers from Maine to Texas, shutting down East and Gulf ports that handle half of the nation's ship cargo. Correspondent Norman Hall reports.    Georgia Abortion Ban Struck Down In Georgia, a Fulton County Superior Court judge has struck down the state's 6-week abortion ban, now making it legal to terminate a pregnancy up to 22 weeks. Pamela Furr has the details.    More Trouble For Eric Adams Another top aide to New York City Mayor Eric Adams has resigned as the mayor's attorneys are demanding a dismissal of a bribery charge against him. Correspondent Julie Walker reports.    “Rust” Conviction Upheld A New Mexico judge has upheld the conviction for the weapons supervisor on the set of the movie "Rust." The details from entertainment correspondent Margie Szaroleta.      Helene Death Toll Rising The North Carolina Department of Transportation says that all roads in the western part of the state should be considered closed. It's so bad in Mitchell County, North Carolina that officials are telling residents if they need help don't call 9-1-1, walk to the nearest fire department. In many parts of the state, no cellphone or internet service has left people cut off from making contact. Correspondent Julie Walker reports.     Trump & Harris Talk Helene Former President Trump and Vice President Harris put their usual talking points aside to focus on the relief efforts for those affected by Hurricane Helene. John Stolnis has more on how the hurricane is affecting the candidates and the campaign trail.     Latest In The Middle East A limited Israeli ground incursion into Lebanon targeting Hezbollah soldiers and tunnels is underway as the United States is sending more troops to the region to bolster the current force. Correspondent Clayton Neville reports.    Remembering Pete Rose He was baseball's all-time hit king and one of its greats who was banned from the Hall of Fame due to betting on the game. Sagar Meghani reports on the passing of Pete Rose.    Too Close For Comfort When you're a pilot and you can see what the pilot of another plane is wearing, it means you're dangerously too close. As correspondent Lisa Dwyer reports, the US is demanding answers from Russia after one of their fighter jets came within just feet of an American F-16 bomber after it strayed inside the Alaska Air Defense Zone.    Casino Evacuated Twice A casino in Tampa, Florida was evacuated twice after two explosive devices were found hidden on the grounds.     Dish Deal DirecTV will buy rival Dish to create a massive Pay-TV company. Correspondent Jennifer King reports the unusual amount DirecTV paid, and the hurdles it may face getting government approval.   Tech News Your cellular service might be returning to normal today if you're a Verizon customer, after a major outage left many customers without any bars. Here's Chuck Palm with today's Tech news.   Finally   Music mogul Sean Diddy Combs is speaking through his lawyer about what it's like to be incarcerated. Kevin Carr has the story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Glen Kyne joins Duncan Greive to discuss the appointment of Graeme Mason to chair the NZ Film Commission board. The former Screen Australia boss seems the strongest signal yet that the NZFC and NZ on Air are coming together. We run through some worrying signs out of US cable – and ask what they mean for the potential sale of Foxtel, Sky's Australian equivalent. We also look at NZME making a revived Game of Two Halves for Sky, the X advertiser lawsuit and the remarkable run of Susan Wojcicki at YouTube. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nine Entertainment is expected to wrap up its $220m, two-year share buyback - after a whack in profits and business performance. Airbnb has had its largest share price drop since going public in 2020. Warner Brothers Discovery has written down the value of its TV assets by $9.1 billion USD, leading to a $10 billion USD net loss for the quarter. — Build the financial wellbeing of your team with Flux at Work: https://bit.ly/fluxatworkDownload the free app (App Store): http://bit.ly/FluxAppStoreDownload the free app (Google Play): http://bit.ly/FluxappGooglePlayDaily newsletter: https://bit.ly/fluxnewsletterFlux on Instagram: http://bit.ly/fluxinstaFlux on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@flux.finance—-The content in this podcast reflects the views and opinions of the hosts, and is intended for personal and not commercial use. We do not represent or endorse the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, statement or other information provided or distributed in these episodes.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, we discuss the reports that the NBA has concluded agreements totaling $76 billion that would keep ABC/ESPN as the home of the NBA Finals for 11 seasons while adding NBC and Amazon Prime Video as new partners. But the completed contract must still be sent to TNT Sports, giving WBD five days to match Amazon's offer. We also point out a number of the unanswered questions surrounding the merger of Skydance Media and Paramount Global, such as the NFL's ability to renegotiate its contract with CBS at its discretion under the new ownership.We also detail the new streaming service from Hallmark+ and EverPass Media news that will offer NFL ‘Sunday Ticket' streaming in bars, restaurants and other businesses. Finally, we give a rundown of the witness list DOJ published by the DOJ for its upcoming antitrust trial against Google late last week and give out some of the latest pay TV and streaming viewership numbers from ITV, ESPN, FOX Sports, and CBS.Podcast produced by Security Halt Media

On this week's show Ara and Braden discuss a video made by Rick Beato where he posits that new music is getting worse. We also read your emails and take a look at the week's news. News: Amid Another Worst Quarter Ever for U.S. Pay TV, Even YouTube TV Lost Subscribers in Q1, Analyst Says LG Launches OLED B4 4K TV Series Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service Mini LED Backlight LCD Display Market to Surpass OLED Displays in 2025 Others: The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300 Twisters Movie The Real Reason Why Music Is Getting Worse Robert Spivack sent us an email with a link to this Rick Beato video titled The Real Reason Why Music Is Getting Worse. This immediately appealed to me since I spend a lot of time creating speakers to make the music I listen to sound as good as it possibly can.

On this edition of Eat Drink Smoke, Tony and Fingers review the  Gotta Get Up to Get Down Coffee Milk Stout from Wiseacre Brewing Company. Other topics this week include: What is Sadfishing? Should it be ignored? The guys discuss the highest-calorie menu items at fast-food chains and why Fingers wants to try them all. Pay TV is in real trouble. All that and much more on this week's Eat Drink Smoke. Follow Eat Drink Smoke on social media!X (Formerly Twitter): @GoEatDrinkSmokeFacebook: @eatdrinksmokeIG: @EatDrinkSmokePodcast The Podcast is Free! Click Below! Apple PodcastsAmazon MusicStitcher SpotifySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this episode of Inside Content, Peyton Lombardo, Manager at 3Vision is joined by Marc Rashba, Executive Vice President of Global Partnerships at Cineverse to take a deep-dive into cross-platform distribution strategies for FAST, AVOD, Pay TV and Youtube. Peyton and Marc focus on the varying opportunities that different platforms offer and how Cineverse balances its strategy and investment across FAST, AVOD, SVOD, Pay TV, and YouTube. In their discussion, they explore market development, strategies for expanding into new territories and weighing up platforms for distribution, including how to harness YouTube, FAST vs AVOD and balancing FAST and Pay TV initiatives. They also dive into Cineverse's content strategy, including the benefits of local content, licensing versus keeping content for O&O services, content discoverability and how to target different audiences. Stay in the content world loop

The TV and streaming landscape has undergone rapid changes in the past 12 months and there are significant trends taking hold. Fiscal restraint, cost-cutting and maximising ROI have been key themes as businesses respond to increased challenges and competition. On this special episode of Inside Content, Jack Davison, EVP at 3Vision is joined by CEO Toby Russell and Analyst Jed Ayloff to discuss our recent 2024 TV Industry Trends & Predictions Report which collates global feedback from senior media executives to provide data-driven predictions and insights into major areas affecting the TV industry. Together they consider the report's key findings and discuss some of the stand-out topics for players in the TV industry, including SVOD growth, Free and Pay TV innovation, content windowing and production trends, bundling and partnerships as well as the future of peak TV.

In this episode: Mike's Rewind  Happy, Happy Andrew – John Wing in Miami, Festival is programmed  Dawn's Fact Check  Listener Questions, Comments & Reviews  Michelle's Random Thought – Ads on Pay TV  Dick of the Week – High School Principal eats students Door Dash order  Freakout – Papa John's delivery guy in England driving distracted  Shaddup – Funeral group wants to cancel their rooms at a Comfort Inn  Karen – McDonalds in England doesn't accept 50-pound note  Douchebag – Couple doesn't want a guys dog pooping on grass  Dumbass – Guy returns after 3 weeks to complain about his “Meatballer”  Checking in with the Politicians – Trump  What Does Kevin Think? – Are you in favour of an Alberta Pension Plan?  The Doctor's Office – Are drugs the only solution for depression?  How Smart is Carole? – Broadway Plays  The Big Blue Folder   We get played out by Young Jeffery  Out-takes   This episode of Grose Misconduct was sponsored by Crystal Glass, Leading Edge Physiotherapy, Ol' MacDonald's Resort, Arena Auto Service, Meathead Butcher Shop, Twin Otter Neighbourhood Pub, Daybreak Photo and The Edmonton Comedy Festival. @CrystalGlassLTD @LeadingEdgePT @Macker63 @yegcomedy @mikedmonton @DawnsFactCheck @docTonyM  @MeatHeadIncSupport the show

On today's podcast episode, we discuss the takeaway's from this years March Madness NCAA basketball tournaments, what's most fueling a revolution in women's sports, who will rule the new pay TV world by 2026, the likelihood that sports betting faces a reckoning in the next 12-months, the best-selling cars in America, and more. Tune in to the discussion with our forecasting writer Ethan Cramer-Flood, forecasting analyst Zach Goldner, and director of forecasting Oscar Orozco.   Follow us on Instagram at:  https://www.instagram.com/insiderintelligence/   For sponsorship opportunities contact us: advertising@emarketer.com. For more information visit: https://www.insiderintelligence.com/contact/advertise/ Have questions or just want to say hi? Drop us a line at podcast@emarketer.com    For a transcript of this episode click here:        © 2024 EMARKETER   Walmart Connect helps brands connect with our customers more often and more meaningfully than ever before to accelerate shared growth. As the closed-loop media business of America's largest omnichannel retailer, Walmart Connect offers unparalleled opportunities for brands to reach their desired customers no matter where, how, and when they shop. For additional information, visit walmartconnect.com.  

The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY SCREENFEED – DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT Set top boxes have long been looked at, theoretically at least, as single-purpose devices that would do nicely as digital signage media players, but it's fair to say a lot of software company developer and support teams have painful memories of trying to use consumer devices from China as Android-based players. They weren't reliable in terms of performance, or even in terms of what showed up from shipment to shipment. So what if a company that was expressly in the business of commercial-grade set top boxes for the pay TV and cable markets got into digital signage? That's the deal with a UK company called Amino, which now has two lines of business - pay TV and pro AV applications like digital signage. These are devices that are engineered to last for five or six years, and in a lot of cases, they are happily ticking away for a decade and longer. High reliability and remote management are inherent in the product design, so meeting that common pro AV demand was largely automatic. I had a good chat with Rowan Brunger, Amino's UK-based Sales Director, about the hardware, how the company goes to market, and what's involved if software companies and solutions providers want to add Amino devices as a hardware option. Subscribe from wherever you pick up new podcasts. TRANSCRIPT David: Rowan, thank you for joining me. I bumped into you last year and basically said, what do you guys do? Cause I'd never heard of you and we'd intended to do a podcast and finally got around to it. So for those people who don't know the company, what are you all about?  Rowan Brunger: Thanks, David. Thanks for having me on. So yeah, great to be here. We are a company called Amino and we've been around for about 25 years. So we have two sides to our business. Primarily, we've been a set top box manufacturer within the pay TV world and in the last few years, we've made a move to expand our enterprise TV and digital signage side of the business which is rapidly growing some momentum in terms of those 25 years we've been around, we've probably got 25 million devices in circulation and we've got quite a compelling device management system that we've tweaked from our experience in the pay TV world brought over to the pro AV arena for managing the states of media devices.  David: So when you say pay TV, you basically in the context of what North Americans would understand that basically means cable TV.   Rowan Brunger: Yeah, cable TV. So tier one, tier two, satellite providers where we would typically either have an Amino box or we'd OEM a box for the actual operator. So we're used to selling in big numbers to operators and what really differentiated us in that market which we're using in this one is the remote device management. So as you can imagine, if we're sending hundreds of thousands of boxes out, we want it to be relatively zero touch from the consumer's environment. We want them to plug the cables in and we do the rest remotely. So that's really what spawn orchestrate products, which is our device management platform that we've tweaked and made more applicable to the pro IV market to manage our media players. David: When you opened up the digital signage/enterprise TV market, was that based on inbound requests, Hey, we would really like to use a set top box. Do you support this market or there may be multiple answers but I'm curious if you kind of looked at where linear TV or cable TV was going, given streaming and the way that was bubbling up and realized, okay, we needed to, we need to open up a new market.  Rowan Brunger: I guess a combination of the various different scenarios you've given there. I mean, it's key to say we've always had a foot within the digital signage and enterprise video world. There's amino products that have been out there for sort of 10 years plus. I guess one of the main alliances partners we had in the past was Triple Play. So we manufactured a lot of the endpoints for Triple Play, Vitech and some of the IPTV streaming guys. So we've got loads of boxes out there in circulation and they're coming up for renewal or people wanting to upgrade to 4k, et cetera.  So that gives us a natural pull off. Okay, let's look at this market in isolation rather than just bolting onto our existing business. And then there's actually looking at the experience that we've gained in the pay TV world which has become a very competitive environment to be in. We can take a lot of that experience and truly add some value within the pro AV space with the gravitas of products and devices that we've managed previously and importantly, bringing over our video expertise onto the media player, rather than just looking at signage. We've done well where we integrate the two and we're finding a lot of customers are wanting both of them to run side by side on one device. So we can pull the huge expertise we have in enterprise video and actually put it on the same device next to, for instance, the CMS platform,  David: The markets and the use cases are, in some respects, very similar in terms of both needing very high quality of service. Like the stuff can't go down, right? Rowan Brunger: Sure. Yeah. We look at that from a number of different angles in terms of the physical player itself is truly enterprise grade, steel case designed to work in all environments 24 seven and some would argue we've even over engineered it. I mean, we've literally got boxes that have been running 24 seven in the field for 10 or 12 years solid and they're still displaying every single hour of the day.  But then there's the actual total robustness of the system and that's the inevitably when something does go wrong and things obviously do go wrong, the ability to fix that very quickly and also the ability to make sure the ongoing security and updates of that device are easy to get onto it, is as important as it running really. David: Yeah, I would say any number of CMS software companies in the industry have only in the last few years sort of realized the importance of remote device management, whereas it would have been inherent in what you do right from the start, right?  Rowan Brunger: Yeah, it's absolutely an upfront thought in where we've come from. And inevitably like a lot of things, you only realize how much you need something when you don't have it and when there's a problem. So certainly a lot of the signage projects that were involved with it, it's not their first signage project at all. They're learning from the deployments they've already made and what the pinch points were and what the really painful bits about it. And I think we're in a world now where people are taking their signage a lot more seriously with a big emphasis and cost push to get people back to the high street. For instance, when we're looking at retail, it's not just a tick box, we have a signage system in place. It's got to be absolutely robust. You've got to be able to rely on it and certainly, in times where people are paying to have their content advertised within the stores or the settings, they want to know it's actually been on the screen.  David: So you're competing in a few ways with different kinds of companies. You've got the consumer/prosumer android set top boxes that have come over from Shenzhen or whatever. You've got special purpose media play out boxes like a bright sign box and then you've got companies like SPINX who have their own box and other companies that have their own boxes and then you have PCs. So how do you kind of position yourself?  Rowan Brunger: It's a really good question. So, if I cover the first section early on, I'll probably include system on chip in that as well. So we've got a system on chip users, people have realized that there's value in having a player but maybe not as necessarily selected. One that hits all their objectives, I'm sure we say and then we've got the likes of the guys that do really high end boxes with multiple outputs. We've liked to keep this really simple, we have two products in our portfolio, for instance, we have a POE model and we have a Wifi model. So we keep it really simple. It's at a price point where we're stretching the people from the cheap consumer devices and the system on chip operators but add enough value to make that extra investment to move towards an enterprise grade player but we're underneath a lot of our true competitors that you know do fit for purpose signage players because we don't try and do everything. So I'll give you an example of that. We like to partner with specialists in areas that aren't familiar to us. So if somebody needs a four output player, we've got a partnership with the likes of Matrox to give you that. So those guys specialize in multiple output play, cards and players, we feed into it. But what that gives the customer is one platform for pretty much whatever they want to do. So our device management and the reliability is right up there with the top end competitors. But we've got a really simplistic view and what our customers like is no matter what they're displaying or what they're using the player for, it's the same player that does it all. So we've got one customer that has probably six use cases for our player within their stores. So a large rollout of about 650-700 stores in the UK and they're doing multiple things with it but they know it's a H 200 player,  that is just programmed in different ways for those different use cases and they really liked that from a maintenance point of view. So we've kept things really simple. We are definitely a step up and a professional grade player to challenge the lower end operators in the market and in terms of the higher end guys, I think we're hitting a price point. They can't, so we can get mass adoption from our product and we've got the right partnerships in place to cover all use cases with the guys that lead the industry in those areas. David: So for the age 200 player. If I'm buying, like 10 of them, what roughly in U. S. dollars would be the cost?  Rowan Brunger: So well, I'm doing a conversion in my head.  David: Well, give me, EU or sterling.  Rowan Brunger: Yeah, so we've got a package to trade within Europe that's about 240 pounds. Okay. What are we at? Just over 300 and that's a full two year package of enhanced support, premium device management software on the player itself. The player itself is around 200 on its own with various different options. So it hits a price point if you want to power four screens; for instance, in a video wall, it actually becomes price. It prices itself well enough that you could actually put a player on each of those screens, run it as a video wall, or run them individually and have that flexibility. So you're not just doing one or the other, yet you're still coming in at probably less than a quad head player that would powerful screens,  David: Yeah, and it's interesting. By standardizing on just one box for a whole bunch of different use cases, you could keep a spares pool without having to think, okay, I need two spares of these and two spares of those, and so on. You just have five on the shelf that you can pull off if you need to. Rowan Brunger: Exactly that. I mean the scenario I just gave you before, they're even looking at running just some simple audio or some simple HTML pages, just because they like the simplicity that everything is powered by exactly the same thing.  David: You mentioned that you've had stuff in the field for 10 years. Do you have a rated operating life?  Rowan Brunger: Well, the chipset has changed, which has sort of adapted that slightly, and then you've obviously got the provisions of using flash memory but the products that we have in the field have normally been programmed to do one thing, from the offset. So, quite often, decoding video streams, so they haven't really been updated, and that's why they've been running for 10 or 12 years plus. They're designed and warranted to run for, you know, the standard sort of five or six years, but they've become so robust that people have just left them in cause they're working.  We've got an airport with 2000 of the units in, and it's only because they want to change to full grade that they even thought about upgrading them. They've been running in excess of 10 years in that airport. David: So with the build for these units, if I have 500 of them and I decide, okay, I'm expanding, I'm an airport, I'm expanding a new terminal. I need 500 more. Is it going to be a different box at this point, or would that even matter? Rowan Brunger: The H200 has been around for about two years now, it really depends on when those proxies were deployed but the older boxes that we have in the sort of thousands out there, aren't supported anymore because they're well over 10 years old, but we've got a very easy upgrade path to swap those boxes out for the new range of products. And in doing that, they're all on the same platform for managing them then as well. David: I asked this because one of the complaints, among probably quite a few complaints with buying little Android boxes from Shenzhen or elsewhere is that if you order a hundred of them and then you order another hundred that second batch of one hundred might have different operating systems or different versions of the operating system, different electronics inside and everything else. So every time they show up, you're starting from scratch. Rowan Brunger: Absolutely. Welcome to buying consumer products. But we manage our chipsets and our components very strictly, and you can imagine the volumes we make them in because there's a lot of crossover from the set-top box side of the business but more importantly, we operate Android AOSP. So, we actually control and write the firmware for the product ourselves. So, in terms of updating the products, we're putting our own firmware on there. We're not relying on Google or Android updates for anything; in fact, much the opposite, because we want to be in control of it. So for instance, when you boot one of our boxes up, there's no app store. There's no standard Google browser on there, it's exactly what we choose to put on there, which makes it very fit for purpose because it's not running a million things in the background. We give it some very clear parameters and control exactly what middleware or APK that we put on there that's monitored centrally and all the versions and updates are controlled centrally as well. So you know exactly what's on there and you're the master of your own destiny.  David: Are you having to worry about security, well, I guess everybody worries about security, but because, as you just described, does that kind of greatly reduce the risks? Rowan Brunger: Yeah, it does, and again, this is something we've pulled over from our knowledge of the Pay TV market. So working with Android, we adhere to some pretty strict guidelines from Google in terms of security patches and timely updates, et cetera, and we actually think that's really very relevant in the pro AV market as well. So we've actually pulled over the standards that we adhere to on the Pay TV market, within the digital signage space. So as a result of that, we do at least four firmware updates a year that contain all the relevant security patches because there's nothing else on there in terms of an app store, et cetera, we're cleared in very highly secure environments. So we do a lot of work with the government. We've got a really interesting project going on, within a prison. So somebody's made their own middleware that they're using on the box and actually running entertainment within prison cells using the H200, which you can imagine is a super secure environment. So because we're in complete control of it, we can make it as secure as we like. And we're seeing that more and more prevalent with even retail rollouts now, with things like 802.1X authentication on networks, which I've never heard asked for but have been asked quite a lot for recently. So we quite got an agile development team. We're able to add functions like that and drop them in the latest firmware, and get them out of the boxes very quickly.  David: So because you're shipping a lot of units, do you get some sense of what the marketplace demand is?  For the longest time, people were saying, yes, it would be nice if we went to 4k, but nobody actually needs it yet, and for signage applications, it's probably never needed. Certainly, 8k, which is being marketed, is something that is probably years away if it ever comes. What is the marketplace actually using? Rowan Brunger: We are being asked for 4k a lot more. You're right in the signage space; it's less applicable, although a lot of the CMS providers don't even output in 4k, which, obviously, is a stumbling block. But for those that do, we're just testing a build for 4k content at the moment, and we've got out with some beta testers, and that's going very well. Obviously, 4k video is pretty much a must when people are looking at video, and that's very much our expertise, how we can stream that and what protocols we use to stream it and transport streams and encryption, is all around 4k and in particular, low latency is something that we specialize in quite a lot. So that takes us down certain vertical markets such as sporting and gaming where latency is an absolute deal breaker.  So we're seeing for our players and going back to your question about market trends, I'd say 50% of our opportunities are video-led, and the other 50% are signage-led, but with an element of video, a lot of them are with an element of video as well. So I think our expertise in video is really setting us apart here, and that, down the 4k route. POE has been requested more and more so that's why it's standard on our H200s. David: For retail more than anything I would imagine? Rowan Brunger: Actually, no, and I thought it would be, but what we're seeing is the requests for Wi-Fi is actually coming through retail more than anywhere else because when people are doing a retrofit of a store or they want to have quite an agile space within the store and be creative with where they're putting the screens, there's not normally a network point there. So we're actually finding some of our big retail rollouts are actually going down the Wi-Fi route, which I didn't expect, to be honest, but we've done a separate Wi-Fi unit for that marketplace because leading back to the security, a lot of our government and military deployments require us not to even have the ability to have Wi-Fi in the box altogether, which is why we didn't just add Wi-Fi to the existing H200. We've actually done it as two separate products. But yeah, interestingly, we've just launched our, or we're just in the process of launching our Wi-Fi unit, and the inquiries that are coming in are predominantly retail, and also the leisure industry as well as people want to put more screens and things in bars and pubs that typically have terrible infrastructure. Wi-Fi seems to be the easiest route to go with that as well.  David: You mentioned streaming, I'm a little curious about that because most of the set-top boxes that are on the market have onboard storage and digital signage most typically is forward and stored and played off of a hard drive locally.  Are your boxes doing that, or is it all streaming? Rowan Brunger: No, it's all streaming. We can digest the number of transport streams such as multicast, unicast, low latency dash, and low latency HLS because that's what our bread and butter are on the set-top box side of the world. So we're finding a lot of people for instance, within the betting industry where low latency is an absolute must, we're working with specific middleware vendors that provide the streams on an OTT basis, and we decode them locally on the box with various different levels of encryption and it's enabling people to reduce the amount of head end hardware that they've got. Even down to sort of office builds, government buildings where there's an element of wanting just some basic news channels alongside the signage, the ability to switch between the two. So typically, you'd have a big head end, consumer set-top box with aerial on the roof, bringing those streams down, we're able to bring them in completely OTT. So we remove the need for all of that hardware, and just, bring it on an OTT basis straight to the box, which is game-changing for somebody that's, maybe, got a larger state and they have to rent aerial space on the roof of all their stores, have a big server unit within there, consuming a lot of power, needing managing, and obviously bringing those streams down locally, we literally just pop the addresses into the box, into a JSON file and we pull them down through our player that's on board within the software stack. David: Are there worries at all about the quality of service and reliability of service for connectivity? Because God knows that used to be an issue, but maybe it's gone away.  Rowan Brunger: It's becoming less of an issue because with different encryptions and transport streams, they require a lot less bandwidth. It still needs assessing, obviously, when you're looking at a sign. But you can tweak the bitrate frames between the different encryption levels to get to a happy medium of a quality that you want alongside a bandwidth that you're willing to play with. So, it's becoming less of an issue. We can still obviously decode on-prem feeds as well when it's absolutely paramount that the feeds have got to be on-premises but the bandwidth is becoming less and less of an issue now.  David: You mentioned enterprise TV at the front end of our chat. How do you define that?  Rowan Brunger: So it's really whether it's TV-led, and what I mean by enterprise TV is, anything that's not residential, and not, hospitality so retail, office environments, sports stadium, things like that. That's where we'd class as enterprise TV. So it's the enterprise-grade of the box, but it's primarily streaming IPTV rather than just signage.  David: Do you sell direct or do you kind of go through a channel or, through software partners? Rowan Brunger: So we sell purely through a channel. We sell through distributors around the globe, trade only, through the channel directly to our system integrators, and onto the end users. So yeah, we're a channel-focused business, and that's something that we've recently sort of redesigned because that model is very different from what Amino is used to in the Pay TV market where they may deal directly with operators. We've decided that within this marketplace, a channel-only focus is the best way to go. It ensures our partner's protection on pricing and margin, et cetera, and also gives us scalability that we've got partners out there promoting the product for us. David: When you started Looking at the digital signage market, was it a little baffling when you realized how many software companies there are? Rowan Brunger: Yes, there does seem to be an ever ending amount of CMS partners to play with. We've worked with a couple that we've got a history with and onboarded those guys. We've now got an accreditation process. So when we do onboard a partner, we truly onboard them as a partnership rather than just saying, okay, we've tested that version of the APK, and that works fine. Let's call it accredited.  We actually onboard them and make a commitment that CMS will work ongoing with Amino and we go into a partnership with the CMS so we get beta releases of each other's software so we can truly test it in advance, which is why it takes a little bit of time to onboard, although we have quite an impressive list of CMS vendors on the list to go through accreditation, so it is definitely a nice route to market. We want to play with as many people as we can. At the same time, not overloading ourselves.  I think what's helping us there is the fact that a lot of CMSs seem to develop their APK before the platforms, so we do tend to be able to onboard people fairly quickly. And if there is any integration work that needs doing, it's fairly straightforward, and we've seen it before on somebody else's application. So yeah, onboarding and partnering are absolutely key for us over the next 12 months. We don't want what CMS somebody uses to be a barrier to sell, and it's not just a CMS, we work very closely with a number of streaming middleware companies as well that are specific in certain vertical markets as well.  David: So you're at a stand at some trade show and a CMS, digital signage CMS software company walks up and says, “Hi, I'm aware of you guys, and would like to be involved.” What's that thing you tell them when they say, “What do we need or how do we need to be set up in order for this to work?”  Rowan Brunger: Initially, we would ask for a version of their application and log in to their system, and we deliberately ask for no more than that because we want to test it as a virgin user if you like. So we put it through a first round of testing, which is: Does this go onto the box? Does it behave as if I would expect it to behave as a user? And that's our first round of testing. Normally, if that goes okay, we put it forward towards a full Q.A. test with our Hong Kong development team, which is a 400-point Q.A. test, which literally tests every element of the software and the integration, and at that point, we give a report back to the CMS provider to say, “Yes, it's all gone smoothly” or “It works, but can we suggest we do this and this integration together to make it a better experience?” And then, we go into the commercials of the partnership and make sure that we're sharing best practices with each other in terms of updates and things. We also have a lot of APIs that are available through our remote management software that we're finding a lot more of the CMS partners want to integrate into their CMS platform to give the end users, that one pane of glass, whether they're managing content or the device that they can do it in one place. So we have completely open APIs for the CMS partners to be able to do that and put a lot of the functionality that we have in our device management, actually in their front-end system that the customer is using every day for the content.  David: Does your platform support IP streaming or multicast or that sort of thing? Is there a foundational thing they have to have?  Rowan Brunger: No, not at all. We are dealing with some partners to put our video play technology within their CMS but it's not these guys' expertise. So, actually, the value to them of working with Amino is you can run their CMS software and switch seamlessly into an IPTV solution alongside their CMS. So, all of a sudden, they can speak to their customers about IPTV streaming solutions alongside pretty much any CMS rather than having to have a specialized solution incorporated into their roadmap.  How many times have we provided screens to somebody and you get the call, maybe two, two weeks later, two years later, “Can we put some TV streams through this for us?” For us, that's just a service we can turn on without having to ship any hardware. So it gives a lot of flexibility to these existing CMS deployments.  David: You mentioned the Hong Kong software team, is that where the company is based?  Rowan Brunger: No, we're based in Cambridge in the UK. So we are a UK-based company and have been for our existence. We have a couple of support teams. One is in Portugal, level one support is in Portugal, and we have a level two support team in Hong Kong. So we've got to follow the sun kind of coverage on support.  David: And manufacturing is done in China like everybody else? Rowan Brunger: Some manufacturing is done in China. There's a whole host of countries that we're manufacturing in. We've got stuff coming out of Thailand, Taiwan, Hong Kong. It depends on the product or the chipset, but yeah, a fairly well-diverse manufacturing plant. We're not stationed all in one place. David: What's the next AV trade show that you guys will have a stand at or a presence at?  Rowan Brunger: So Infocomm is coming up. We've got a presence there, and we've just done ISE, as you know, and then we've got some presence at NAB as well because we do see some crossover from some of the broadcasting shows that are looking at enterprise video or signage. So our trade show calendar is still split between Pay TV, but with a much larger emphasis than we have done on the AV world.  David: If people want to know more about Amino, where do they find you online? Rowan Brunger: Sure, just go to Amino.tv.  David: Clever! All right, Rowan, thank you very much for your time. Rowan Brunger: Thank you, David. Pleasure as always.

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SportsPro reporter Josh Sim recently wrote about the big questions for women's football in 2024 and the major changes on the horizon that could change the commercial model. Here he joins SportsPro CEO Nick Meacham to discuss what the right approach is for a sport on the verge of becoming big business. Key topics: Comparing and contrasting the approaches top women's football leagues take to sports media (6:08) Pros and cons of the free-to-air approach (15:08) Ways the leagues could drive revenues without going behind the paywall (17:15) Why did DAZN U-turn on putting the Women's Champions League behind a paywall? (18:24) What role can athletes and social media play? (28:56) Should private equity play a role? (38:10)

On this episode of Inside Content, 3Vision CEO Toby Russell is joined by seasoned television executive, Patrick Rivet, CEO of THEMA. ‍ THEMA, which is owned by Canal+, is the distribution arm of Canal+'s International content business. Here, Patrick is in charge of developing the business and securing strategic partnerships to drive growth in the new digital sphere, and before that, was running the US office of THEMA. Under his leadership, he significantly grew the company with the launch of several digital offers in US and Latin America. Prior to this, he worked as Head of Distribution at TV5 MONDE in Paris, where he was in charge of business development for the channel on pay TV platforms. On the episode Patrick and Toby dive into a variety of exciting topics, including the evolution of Pay TV across international markets and how operators are adapting to the changing ecosystem. They also discuss the current trends occurring in the content space such as the popularity of Turkish content in LATAM as well as the increasing power of YouTube as a platform and the opportunities it generates. Stay in the content world loop

Dylan Byers joins Peter to discuss the NFL's role in delaying the decline of Pay TV, and what might come next. Then Eriq Gardner tells Ben Landy all about a surprise ruling in a Murdoch defamation case. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Normalerweise gibt es die Live-Konferenzen mit den Spielen der 1. und 2. Bundesliga nur hinter der Bezahlschranke im Pay-TV bei Sky. An diesem Wochenende ist das aber anders: RTL überträgt am Sonntag, den 21. Januar 2024 die Live-Konferenz mit 3 Partien der 2. Fußball-Bundesliga, darunter die Begegnung zwischen Hertha BSC und Fortuna Düsseldorf. Wann geht es los und was wird übertragen?

Dan Rayburn says it's an exciting time for streaming sports, but streaming won't replace broadcast or pay TV (0:45) Dearth of data from sports leagues (11:40) Netflix's 'useless' release (21:25) Upcoming NBA and Formula 1 deals (26:00) Disney, ESPN, Apple, Google and Amazon (33:00).Episode transcriptsShow Notes:Streaming Reality Vs. Fantasy With Dan RayburnBreaking Down Paramount's Finances: Not Going Bankrupt But Balance Sheet Could Be BetterNetflix reveals what we watched & for how long with new data setFor full access to analyst ratings, stock quant scores as well as dividend grades, subscribe to Seeking Alpha Premium at seekingalpha.com/subscriptions

NASCAR has a new $7.7 billion rights deal, Insider Intelligence says cord-cutters dominate in the US, TikTok is challenging YouTube, and Smart TVs are growing in importance.

Traditional pay TV losses accelerated in Q3 2023, pushed upwards by multiple doom loops. But does the recent Charter/Disney carriage deal hold out hope that the decline can be arrested?

This week we detail the Q3 earnings numbers you need to know tied to Paramount+, Peacock, Fubo, AMC+, Roku and Brightcove including subscriber counts and DTC profit and loss. We also draw attention to the roughly one million new Comcast, Verizon, Charter, and Altice pay TV customers who have cut the cords. We talk about the announcement from Netflix that their ad tier now boasts 15 million monthly active users worldwide; Harmonic's strategic review of their video division; Bitmovin revealing that their revenue for the upcoming year will be in the 30s million; and Nokia suing Amazon and HP for allegedly violating patents related to H.264 and H.265 video decoding.

This week we detail how the current model of licensing broadcast networks to pay TV distributors is completely broken. With a recent blackout on Spectrum due to a licensing dispute with Disney and a current blackout on DISH due to their dispute with Hearst, the methodology of how content is valued needs to change. We discuss what consumers want from streaming services, how they want to aggregate them, the business models that work best, and the ridiculous fragmentation fans have when watching sports-related content. We also highlight the recently announced layoffs from Roku, Nielsen and the new financial numbers that Warner Bros. Discovery, Netflix and others have put out tied to revenue and free cash flow, due to the impact of the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes.

This week we expose the flawed comparisons of bundled streaming services to pay TV, with Nielsen improperly comparing linear TV to YouTube, but excluding vMVPD services like Sling TV and Hulu + Live TV in their ratings. We also break down the new NFL Sunday Ticket bundle with Max, new student pricing, and multi-view combinations, and speculate on the future potential for platform customization and interactive features available on mobile and TV.  Wrapping up our discussion, we discuss the potential of streaming services to reach profitability and the possible future where pay TV operators stop making profits from pay TV services.

The details on the declining Pay TV universe; major deals for Notre Dame and ManU; what's next for Major League Cricket and Dodgers are thinking 365

The trouble brewing in the media and entertainment industry has become one of the most interesting—and truly perplexing—business stories in the world. How does everything seem so bad at the same time? The domestic box office is still in a recession. Pay TV is a nightmare. Streaming is a money pit. And actors and writers are on strike. How did this happen? And could it get worse before it gets better? Today's guest is Julia Alexander, director of strategy for Parrot Analytics and a writer with Puck News. We discuss a brief history of Hollywood, how we got to this point, how Disney's plight in particular tells a story of how streaming has roiled this town, how the strikes fit into this picture, and what these companies should do now. If you have questions, observations, or ideas for future episodes, email us at PlainEnglish@Spotify.com. You can find us on TikTok at www.tiktok.com/@plainenglish_ Host: Derek Thompson Guest: Julia Alexander Producer: Devon Manze Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With a floundering economy In the first quarter of 2023, the U.S. pay-TV industry suffered its steepest subscriber losses yet, losing a total of 2.3 million customers across cable, satellite, and internet TV services due to the rising popularity of streaming video. According to senior analyst Craig Moffett, the penetration of pay-TV into U.S. households … Continue reading Unprecedented Cord-Cutting Surge in Q1 2023 Sends US Pay-TV Subscriptions Plunging to 1992 Lows #1669 → The post Unprecedented Cord-Cutting Surge in Q1 2023 Sends US Pay-TV Subscriptions Plunging to 1992 Lows #1669 appeared first on Geek News Central.