MediaKind has been tapped by production platform veteran The Switch to support IP infrastructure and content delivery for the New England Sports Network (NESN). The Liberty Global video platform is available in Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium and Austria, while the platform is still being testing in the UK and Ireland.
UPC TV has passed 1 million subscribers worldwide, two years after launching. Disney+ was an early mover in ending its own 7-day free trial in the US only some seven months after launching, and we said Netflix would be next.
As an alternative marketing strategy, Netflix has been offering select episodes of some bingeworthy series like Stranger Things available free-to-view to non-subscribers, aiming to hook fully paid up members desperate to see the next episode or season. In a trend Faultline saw coming many moons ago, Netflix no longer offers month-long free trials, at least in the US, UK, and India, for now. We couldn’t see the FCC being anywhere near that strict considering that the deal was an easy way to consolidate cable power in the US. Similar accusations had recently sunk the Comcast– TWC merger, but Dish was too demanding with its remedies, which included unbundling Charter’s broadband and MVPD businesses, restricting Charter’s domination of third party video rights and forcing Charter to offer rival video bundles. While NAB wanted a full review of media ownership in the US, Dish argued that broadband dominance would give Charter a vested interest to prevent OTT from developing, no doubt fuelled by its concern for Sling TV. Dish Network and the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) came out against the three-way merger of Charter, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks.
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