Selected links from my @haarsager Twitter feed from this past week. --Dennis
Cable/MVPD/PayTV
Discovery plans to reach 3 billion global subs in 2015. Rapid TV News
Digital Media/OTT
Ad blockers: The only way out. Frédérick Filloux in Monday Note
Five key social media trends in charts. The Media Briefing
AT&T/DirecTV is betting big on TV Everywhere. Dallas Morning News
must read Time for connected TV to shine. nScreenMedia
must read Online video boom heralds rise of the “super viewer.” Rapid TV News
Management/Strategy
Digital Divides 2015. Pew Research Center
CBS’s Poltrack: Measurement miscues abound. MediaPost
Radio
Is PPM killing HD Radio? Radio InSights
Challenges in getting LPFM stations on the air. Radio World
must read Program directors challenged by Eric Nuzum to think about audience, not formats. Current
Spectrum/Incentive Auction/ATSC 3.0
Sprint to skip 600-MHz auction. Phone Scoop …and… Sprint’s bold gambit to catch up with AT&T and Verizon. BGR …and… Is Sprint making a mistake bowing out of the spectrum auction? Forbes
T-Mobile on 600-MHz auction: “Dynamics are positive,” carrier could have up to $10B to spend. FierceWireless
How much LTE spectrum do the top four carriers have? FierceWireless
ATSC 3.o physical layer achieves Candidate Standard status. TVNewsCheck
must read Incentive auction could generate $60B, but per-MHz prices could be lower than AWS-3 auction. FierceWireless
ATSC 3.0: The big story Americans haven’t heard. Harry Jessell in TVNewsCheck
Television
How long can these good TV times continue? New York Times
