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Altice-Cablevision Create USA’s Fourth-Largest Operator

by Bob Raikes

Altice has acquired Cablevision Systems Corporation, for $17.7 billion, a deal that creates the fourth-largest cable operator in the USA. Cablevision serves the US metropolitan area (New York, New Jersey and Connecticut), with a …

Tags:Cable| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 38

BBC Brings Video Streaming to USA

by Tom Allen

The BBC has announced plans to launch an OTT video streaming service in the USA. Tony Hall, the broadcaster’s director general, said that thee new service will be launched online next year, with no …

Tags:BBC| Large Display Monitor| Streaming Video| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 38

Nokia’s Alcatel-Lucent Deal Receives Go-Ahead

by Tom Allen

Nokia’s acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent (Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent Sign MOU) has been approved by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). With the clearance from CFIUS and the Department of Justice (US …

Tags:Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Nokia| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 37

BLU is First With Mediatek Helio X10

by Tom Allen

Mediatek’s premium new Helio X10 chipset is being used to drive BLU Products’ BLU Pure XL smartphone. It is the first US phone to use the 2GHz, 64-bit octa-core chipset. The Pure XL is …

Tags:Mediatek| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 37

Happy Birthday to the Playstation Nation!

by Tom Allen

Sony is celebrating 20 years since the US launch of its original Playstation console – on 9th September, 1994 – by inviting fans to vote on the greatest game for the system of all …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| PlayStation| sony| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 36

US FCC Grants Licence for ATSC 3.0 Trial

by Helen Vince

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has granted a temporary licence to One Media, a joint venture between Sinclair Broadcast Group and Coherent Logix, to conduct a trial of the ATSC 3.0 standard in …

Tags:ATSC| Large Display Monitor| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 36

83% of US Households Subscribe to a Pay TV service

by Milos Pavlovic

New consumer research from Leichtman Research Group, Inc. (LRG) finds that about 83% of all households nationwide subscribe to some form of pay-TV service. The percentage of households that subscribe to a pay-TV service …

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US Pay TV Firms Post Worst Ever Subscriber Losses

by Helen Vince

A new report from IHS shows that US pay TV companies suffered their worst ever quarterly video subscriber losses in Q2, losing 658,450 subscribers. According to IHS, this is the first time non-cable pay …

Tags:IHS Markit| Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 35

Epson Rules July Projector Sales

by Tom Allen

PMA Research has announced the top-selling projectors in the USA in July. The company divides the results into three categories: ‘pico and personal’, ‘mainstream’ and ‘4,000+ lumen’. The best-selling ‘pico and personal’ projector was …

Tags:Epson| Hitachi| Large Display Monitor| NEC| Optoma| PMA Research| Projectors| sony| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 35