All posts by Jeff Hyatt

By Paul Sweeting Among the many intriguing elements of Disney's newly inked movie distribution deal with Netflix one of the more interesting to watch will be whether it affects th... More

I had the opportunity yesterday to share the stage with rockstar analysts Tom Adams (of IHS Screen Digest), Annie Arroyo of the NPD Group, and Larry Taman of GfK to discuss an indu... More

By Paul Sweeting Cable and satellite operators have long complained about high programming costs, particularly when it comes to sports programming. But at the UBS Media and Commun... More

By Paul Sweeting More people buy Android devices than buy iOS devices but they don't seem to do much with them. In a widely discussed blog post yesterday, Asymco analyst Horace Ded... More

Today is Cyber Monday, when Americans are projected to spend $1.5 billion shopping online. That comes on top of the $1 billion they spent online on Black Friday, the more tradition... More

By Paul Sweeting The spiraling cost of sports programming is already riling the pay-TV industry by driving up subscriber fees, but don't expect any respite from the tension in the... More

By Paul Sweeting Movies, video games and consumer electronics will be featured heavily in Black Friday sales this year. If there is a Black Friday this year, that is. Walmart, the ... More

By Paul Sweeting Time Warner-owned Turner Sports partnered with CBS back in 2010 to put up $10.8 billion over 14 years for TV and digital rights to the NCAA's March Madness basket... More

By Paul Sweeting With the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit in Washington preparing to hear oral arguments over the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules... More

By Paul Sweeting Americans started showing signs of falling out of the habit of watching television in 2012. Total viewing time was down 2% in the first quarter of the year, and d... More

By Paul Sweeting The search for a better way to navigate among the growing thicket of channels and apps showing up on TVs continues. Google rolled out its bid to reinvent the TV i... More

By Paul Sweeting Getting cancelled is a rite of passage for anyone trying to build a career in television. The same will be true even in the future of television, apparently. AdA... More

By Paul Sweeting Spotify is closing in a new $100 million financing round that values the streaming music service at just over $3 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal. Wh... More

By Paul Sweeting Whatever else it accomplishes, Tuesday's election could have significant impact on several public policy issues affecting the copyright and technology industries.... More

By Paul Sweeting The third-quarter numbers for pay-TV providers painted a grim picture of the industry. According to an estimate by Sanford Bernstein, the industry as a whole lost... More

By Lyndsey Schaefer As the industry continues to explore its passion for cloud computing, new cloud-based models are appearing each week for steps in the broadcast and production ... More

By Paul Sweeting Netflix's board of directors on Monday otherwise known as a poison pill, in a bid to stave off a potential raid on the company by billionaire investor Carl Icahn.... More

By Paul Sweeting When billionaire investor Carl Icahn bought up a big chunk of Blockbuster shares back in 2004 he was hoping for a quick profit from Blockbuster's then-pending acq... More

By Paul Sweeting Streaming video set-top box maker Boxee has landed an exclusive retail distribution deal with Wal-Mart for the new $99 Boxee TV device that features an antenna fo... More