Jeff Baumgartner

1 day ago | lightreading.com | Jeff Baumgartner

Disney unveiled standalone and bundled pricing for its coming "all-in" ESPN direct-to-consumer streaming service. The new offering will, for the first time, provide access to the full ESPN suite without the need for a separate pay-TV package when it launches this fall.

1 day ago | lightreading.com | Jeff Baumgartner

Disney has finally priced an all-in ESPN streaming service set to debut this fall. To keep cord-cutting in check, the bells and whistles of the new offering will also be available to people who get ESPN from a pay-TV provider. ESPN's big foray into the direct-to-consumer (DTC) streaming world has finally set its price.

2 days ago | lightreading.com | Jeff Baumgartner

The NAB's request that the FCC set hard deadlines for a transition to the ATSC 3.0 broadcast signaling standard received hard rebukes from NCTA – The Internet & Television Association and the Consumer Technology Association. A US broadcaster petition calling for the FCC to set hard deadlines for a full transition to the ATSC 3.0 broadcast signaling standard received a heavy dose of blowback from the cable and consumer electronics (CE) industries.

2 days ago | lightreading.com | Jeff Baumgartner

AOI's cable revenues soared more than 600% in Q1 thanks to 1.8GHz amp sales to a 'major' cable op in North America. Charter, which is in the midst of a massive HFC upgrade, is AOI's 'anchor customer,' says Raymond James. Applied Optoelectronics Inc. (AOI) is seeing its cable tech business take off roughly two years after it pushed ahead with a plan to sell its amplifiers, nodes and monitoring software directly to cable operators under its own "Quantum Bandwidth" brand.

3 days ago | lightreading.com | Jeff Baumgartner

EchoStar execs say it's technically possible for the company to strike MVNO deals with cable ops that include EchoStar's roaming relationships. But such an arrangement would require approval from AT&T and T-Mobile. EchoStar is progressing with a national 5G network buildout that benefits its own Boost Mobile business. But the company is now being pressed about whether it would explore MVNO agreements with cable operators that are keen to bundle home broadband with mobile.