{"id":17217,"date":"2018-12-03T14:31:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T20:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17217"},"modified":"2018-12-03T14:31:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T20:31:20","slug":"att-just-declared-the-end-of-the-satellite-tv-era-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17217","title":{"rendered":"AT&#038;T just declared the end of the satellite-TV era in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>DirecTV will continue offering satellite-TV service\u2014it had nearly 20 million satellite video subscribers as of September, per company filings.\u00a0But the company will focus on growing its online video business instead, Donovan said. It has a new <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2017\/digital\/news\/directv-ott-android-tv-1202597926\/\">set-top box<\/a>, where people can get the same TV service they\u2019d get with satellite, through an internet-connected box they can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiercevideo.com\/cable\/at-t-cfo-new-directv-service-will-be-self-installed-box-instead-truck-roll\">install themselves<\/a>. It expects that box\u00a0to become a greater share of\u00a0its new premium-TV service installations in the first half of 2019. It also sells cheaper,\u00a0TV packages with fewer channels through its DirecTV Now and WatchTV streaming services, which work with many smart TVs and streaming media players like Roku and Amazon Fire TV devices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1480089\/att-just-declared-the-end-of-the-satellite-tv-era-in-the-us\/\">AT&amp;T just declared the end of the satellite-TV era in the US \u2014 Quartz<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DirecTV will continue offering satellite-TV service\u2014it had nearly 20 million satellite video subscribers as of September, per company filings.\u00a0But the company will focus on growing its online video business instead, Donovan said. It has a new set-top box, where people &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17217\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[525,772],"class_list":["post-17217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-market-trends","tag-satellite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17218,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17217\/revisions\/17218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}