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Award-winning news publisher, covers the business of media and tech at @thedeskdotnet | Past: @reuters, @fox40, @abc7newsbayarea | matthew@matthewkeys.net
Matthew Keys’s Journalist Portfolio
View as a gridVIDAA TV OS ready to compete against Roku, Amazon in US
StreamTV Insider
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After years of shipping millions of smart TVs in Europe, Asia and Latin America, VIDAA is ready to make its mark in the United States. | "We are just in the beginning of the era of the smart TV," Guy Edri, the CEO of VIDAA International, told StreamTV Insider.
DirecTV quietly tests transmitting national NBC feed to offset loss of TEGNA affiliates
StreamTV Insider
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Some DirecTV customers were able to watch a national programming feed of NBC in areas where the local affiliate has been unavailable for weeks due to a prolonged dispute with TEGNA, StreamTV Inside | DirecTV has quietly tested transmitting a national feed of NBC where local Tegna affiliates have been unavailable because of an ongoing dispute, StreamTV Insider confirmed.
MyBundle CEO: 'Hundreds' of cable operators to drop traditional pay TV in coming years
StreamTV Insider
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Three small-sized cable television operators have announced plans to wind down their traditional pay TV services and push customers toward streaming cable-like replacement products. | "The Tier 2 and Tier 3 video landscape will look markedly different three years from now than it does right now," MyBundle CEO Jason Cohen told StreamTV Insider.
DirecTV willing to swap local channels for national broadcast feeds, programming exec says
StreamTV Insider
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DirecTV is ready to provide national feeds of broadcast networks if and when it is allowed to do so, a move that could help it offset the loss of local channels during carriage disputes, a top exec | The comment was made during an interview with DirecTV's Chief Programming Executive Rob Thun, who expressed frustration over the company's latest disruption triggered by a retrans dispute with Tegna.
Vidgo outage triggered by missed payments to vendors, company works to secure new funding
StreamTV Insider
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A technical disruption that has left thousands of Vidgo subscribers unable to access live channels from within the company's native streaming apps was the aftermath of a payment issue between the c | A Vidgo outage was the aftermath of a payment issue between the company and one of its vendors, StreamTV Insider has learned.
MyBundle wants to be your one-stop marketplace for streaming TV
TheDesk.net
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Jason and Daniel Cohen wanted to help streaming customers find the best services for TV. They didn't expect to help cable companies, too.
Exclusive: Facebook testing Vine-like video for Instagram
The Desk
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Facebook is testing a video feature for its photo sharing social network Instagram similar in function to Twitter’s Vine, according to a source.
A conversation with the Syrian Electronic Army
The Desk
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Recently I interviewed two members of the Syrian Electronic Army: “Th3Pr0,” who calls himself one of the leaders of the group and “Shadow,” who is said to have been responsible for a recent phishing attack on the Twitter account of the satirical news site The Onion.
Twitter suspends reporter's account for NBC tweet
Reuters
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Twitter Inc and NBC Universal's move to suppress a British reporter's tweets related to the network's Olympics coverage may have backfired after the incident became fodder for Twitter chatter around the world on Monday.
Twitter reinstates British journalist after outcry
Reuters
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Twitter Inc reinstated a British journalist's account on Tuesday and apologized after an outcry over his suspension for posting an NBC-Universal executive's email address on the service threatened to tarnish the company's reputation.
Dish sues eight companies over streaming tech patents
StreamTV Insider
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Eight separate companies have been on the receiving end of patent lawsuits filed in federal court by pay TV provider Dish Network, StreamTV Insider has learned. | Dish filed lawsuits in the past two months, including against Fubo, Vidgo, and most recently BBC's Britbox, alleging patent infringement related to adaptive bitrate technology.
Judge allows lawsuits brought by DirecTV, YouTube TV customers against Disney to move forward
StreamTV Insider
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A federal judge in California has ruled that the Walt Disney Company must face a potential class-action lawsuit brought by current and former subscribers of AT&T-owned pay television platforms | The lawsuits are brought by several subscribers of DirecTV Stream and YouTube TV, who are aggrieved by ever-increasing prices for television service that they say is due in part to expensive licensing costs associated with ESPN.