Keyword: YouTube TV

A cord-cutting catastrophe struck the U.S. pay TV industry in the second quarter and took a collective 1.53 million subscribers with it. Or maybe not, but it’s hard to know for sure without data from two of the biggest streaming TV services.

While commercial broadcasters have found plenty of space on streaming TV services, PBS has long been on the outside looking in. But now the organization has its first virtual MVPD carriage deal.

Verizon could be joining its pay TV and broadband rivals in building its own proprietary streaming box.

Tomorrow, AT&T kicks off virtual MVPD earnings season – which only consists of two companies publicly disclosing subscriber numbers, but still. Price increases among the major players are sure to be a topic of discussion.

DirecTV Now and Sling TV have already seen their subscriber growth stall or reverse in recent quarters, and now the virtual MVPD space in general could be facing a slowdown.

SAN FRANCISCO – In the middle of an uncharacteristic early June heat wave in the Bay Area, several key figures from the television industry gathered in the Presidio for the TV of Tomorrow Show.

YouTube announced this week that it is taking down the paywall for its original series like “Cobra Kai” and making them free to watch with ads for all consumers.

Verizon announced it has expanded its deal with Google and will sell YouTube TV directly to all its wireless and broadband subscribers.

YouTube TV has now too succumbed to the mounting pressures of programming and operational fees by raising the price of its streaming TV service to $49.99 per month.

Discovery Inc. announced a new multiyear distribution agreement with YouTube that will add its live channels and on-demand content to YouTube TV beginning today.