Category: Industry News
2025 TV Customer Satisfaction Awards: Is Cable Back From the Dead? Customers See Life in Providers Like Xfinity and Verizon Fios
by Logan Jones | Dec 3, 2024 | Featured, Industry News, Reviews, TV
We asked nearly 6,000 cable, satellite, and fiber TV customers to rate their TV providers. Verizon Fios again emerged as the provider with the highest overall satisfaction rating (79%) and earned the highest ratings on 19 of 20 questions. Read on to see what’s so great about Verizon Fios—and how your TV provider fared.
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2025 Internet Customer Satisfaction Awards: Cable ISPs Improve, But Fiber, 5G Still Lead
by Eric Chiu | Dec 3, 2024 | Featured, Industry News, Internet, Reviews
For the CableTV.com 2025 Internet Customer Satisfaction Survey, we talked to more than 8,800 internet users to find the best ISPs across the nation.
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Animators Band Together as the Next Contract Deadline Approaches
by Olivia Bono | Oct 30, 2024 | Industry News
The Animation Guild (TAG)’s contract expires on November 1, 2024, so guild leaders are hard at work negotiating reforms to make up for the last few years of job scarcity.
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Meta Brings Live NBA Games to VR
by Randy Harward | Oct 28, 2024 | Entertainment, Industry News, Sports
Is the future of live, televised basketball in virtual reality? Meta’s bettin’ on it. In October, Facebook’s parent company announced it would launch 52 free live NBA games in virtual reality via Meta Quest’s Xtadium and Meta Horizon Worlds.
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One Dish to Rule Them All: DIRECTV and DISH Talk Merger Again
by Randy Harward | Sep 30, 2024 | Industry News
The DIRECTV-DISH merger is only in early-stage talks, but what would the merger mean? DIRECTV and DISH have been each other’s only serious satellite TV service rivals for years. A merger of the two providers would create a massive monopoly.
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Everything We Know About Venu Sports Today
by Chantel Buchi | Sep 18, 2024 | Industry News, Reviews, Sports, Streaming
Discover what Venu Sports is, why Fubo filed an antitrust lawsuit against them, and what the future holds for this sports streaming platform in the TV market.
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Disney Channels Pulled From DIRECTV Amid Dispute Over Contract Terms
by Chantel Buchi | Sep 16, 2024 | Industry News, TV
Find out why Disney channels were removed from DIRECTV services, how this ongoing dispute impacts customers, and how to get a refund.
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Disney+ and Hulu Are Getting More Expensive (Again)
by Olivia Bono | Sep 6, 2024 | Entertainment, Industry News, Streaming
Disney+, Hulu, +, Peacock, Max, and Philo have all announced price hikes in 2024; keep reading for all of the messy details, and what we think this all means.
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Oregon, Washington Football Games Blocked During Xfinity–Big Ten Network Dispute
by Eric Chiu | Aug 29, 2024 | Industry News, Sports
Here’s why Oregon, Washington, USC, and UCLA fans will be running into problems if they want to watch their favorite sports on the Big Ten Network this fall.
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Inside the NFL Arrives on The CW, Moving From Paramount+
by Alex Kerai | Aug 16, 2024 | Entertainment, How to Watch, Industry News, Sports
This year, Inside the NFL, will not air on the streaming service Paramount+. Instead, the program is switching to the broadcast network The CW. Inside the NFL began on HBO in 1977 before moving to Showtime in 2008 and shifting once more to Showtime’s sister streaming service Paramount+ in 2021.
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