Free TV Blog – Video in every direction

The blog here has been pretty quiet, and that was true even before Covid. Yet some of you keep coming by, or at least your robots visit. Sorry that I haven’t been around here much for you.
Ku-band free-to-air satellite TV seems to have stabilized. About a decade ago, a report I criticized claimed that FTA was mostly religious channels and foreign-language programming. Today, the report would be more right than wrong....

For the first time in a very long while, a couple of over-the-air TV stations are broadcasting on FTA Ku-band satellite. Unlike the occasional weekend test, which I never bother to mention, this pair has been up for over three weeks, so there’s a chance...

There was a nice story yesterday in The Washington Post about Stadium, the over-the-air TV sports network. It has ambitious goals and pockets deep enough to survive long enough to reach them.
Although it’s in a few pay-TV places (I love it on Sling TV), Stadium concentrates on its OTA audience. “Our end goal is to be the most widely distributed and available sports network in America, far surpassing the 85 million in cable,” Stadium CEO Jason...

A press release from MRI-Simmons came out a couple of days ago, and several well-respected industry news sites dutifully reported its findings. Sorry, but I just don’t get it.
Here’s the lead: “The latest Cord Evolution insights reveal that roughly 31 million US consumers – 12% of the adult population – are Cord Nevers (CNs); that represents an increase over the 2017 level of 9%.” MRI-Simmons defined Cord Nevers as those who...