Year: 2019

AT&T Time Warner Monopoly
Broadcast & PayTV

Monopolies Win Again

March 4, 2019 FilmTake Comments Off on Monopolies Win Again

AT&T finally won its two-year anti-trust litigation against the United States Justice Department to acquire Time Warner.

AT&T DirecTV
Distribution

AT&T’s Big Gamble

February 8, 2019 FilmTake Comments Off on AT&T’s Big Gamble

The DirecTV deal was AT&T’s first big gamble on the filmed entertainment distribution market. DirecTV has been shedding subscribers since the beginning of 2017.

Streaming

Netflix Pays Top Dollar

January 20, 2019 FilmTake Comments Off on Netflix Pays Top Dollar

Perhaps the biggest revelation from Netflix’s earning call last week is the admission that they are “ready to pay top-of-the-market prices for…”

2019 China Box Office
Distribution

The China Retreat

January 15, 2019 FilmTake Comments Off on The China Retreat

Viacom has had enough of China. The New York-based company is in talks with at least one Chinese group to sell some or all of the company’s operations on the mainland.

Hulu
Streaming

Hulu Subscribers Swell

January 13, 2019 FilmTake Comments Off on Hulu Subscribers Swell

The Hulu streaming service reached more than 25 million subscribers at the end of 2018. On a year-over-year basis Hulu subscriber growth rose 48%.