DirecTV Group Inc.

Pay TV subscriptions to reach 1 billion by 2018

2013-06-12 10:59:00

Thank Asia for growth in pay TV.� Global pay TV subscribing households are projected to increase to about 1 billion by 2018, an increase of about 30% from 772 million in 2012, according to Digital TV Research.� Based on the firm's forecast for 97...

DirecTV executive blasts broadcasters at congressional hearing

2013-06-12 08:33:00

WASHINGTON -- Consumers should get to choose which broadcast networks they want to pay to receive, a senior DirecTV executive told Congress on Wednesday. In testimony to a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on communications and technology,...

Pac-12's Larry Scott discusses refs, player stipends and DirecTV

2013-06-03 15:16:00

The Pac-12 Network still hasn’t reached agreement with DirecTV and the league is still smoldering over an officiating controversy last March. All in all, though, Commissioner Larry Scott pronounced it was a pretty good year for the Pac-12...

Comcast has a few cards to play in Hulu sale process

2013-05-31 13:47:00

While News Corp. and Walt Disney Co. consider offers for Hulu from several companies including Time Warner Cable, Yahoo and DirecTV, what all this means for the third owner of the online video site — Comcast Corp. — remain a mystery. Comcast...

Scorched 'Earth'! Finke and Deadline split? RIP Jean Stapleton.

2013-06-03 06:51:00

After the coffee. Before deciding if I should try 'The Killing' again. The Skinny: Pretty good episodes of "Mad Men" and "Veep" last night. I would have liked them better if I wasn't working while they were on! Monday's headlines include the box office...

A wide field for drama series Emmy

2013-05-29 09:00:00

"Mad Men" owned the drama series Emmy for four years running before "Homeland" knocked if off last season. Both shows delivered seasons this year that offer detractors reasons to look elsewhere. Will they? Here's how the field is shaping up. DRAMA...

Can 'The Purge' surge? CW finishes upfront sales.

2013-06-06 07:18:00

After the coffee. Before figuring out how to come back as a house cat in my next life. The Skinny: I now am one of those people who no longer has a home phone. It feels a little weird even though I never used it and didn't even know the number. Will...

Pac 12 Network releases early fall football schedule

2013-06-06 09:39:00

Don’t read this if you love Pac 12 football but make monthly package payments to DirecTV. I am a member of this club and definitely will not read this story after I write it. The Pac 12 Network released the first batch of 15 college football games...

BabyFirst, with premium YouTube channel and new investor, expands

2013-06-06 12:31:00

For a locally based business, babies and moms come first -- on TV and online. BabyFirst, a TV channel dedicated to mothers and children, has recently become a $1.99 a month premium channel on YouTube, and the Century City-based company intends to get...

McCain is prepping legislation to overhaul pay-TV business

2013-05-09 04:30:00

The maverick wants to cook the TV industry's golden goose. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is preparing to introduce legislation perhaps as early as Thursday that would dramatically overhaul the television business and will probably be met with strong...

DirecTV's next dilemma: Punting or keeping Sunday Ticket package

2013-05-10 08:00:00

DirecTV is going to have to decide soon whether to punt or keep the football. The satellite broadcaster's exclusive contract for rights to the National Football League's Sunday Ticket package, which offers subscribers access to every game being played...

First-round bids due this week for Hulu

2013-05-23 14:24:00

The first round of bids were due this week for Hulu, the popular online TV service whose prospective sale has attracted interest from digital media players as well as cable operators. An initial bid has been submitted by the Chernin Group, a next-...

Transmission dishes at DirecTV's Los Angeles broadcast center.

2013-06-12 09:47:00

Jodi Meyer has been promoted to senior print production manager at health care ad agency AbelsonTaylor. Meyer, 37, with more than a decade of production experience, will be working on products in the areas of nutrition, diabetes, wound care, pediatric and respiratory distress.

2013-06-07 00:00:00

8 p.m. Wednesday, May 29, OWN Mama Hattie Mae Love (Patrice Lovely, in blue) from Tyler Perry's plays gets her own sitcom set mostly in her Love Train Diner, where her relatives pitch in to keep the place going. Other Wednesday premieres: "The American Baking Competition," 7 p.m.

2013-05-27 15:20:00