Apple’s plans to enter the consumer media market have been know for long, and now more confirmed deals are public. The deal with Steven Spielberg on the resurrection of the Amazing Stories anthology has already been announced, now Apple has signed the right for 2 seasons of TV based on the Brian Stelter’s book ‘Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV “ and will star Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon.
Category: TV / Film
Sports Hacking
This is (I suppose) an logical evolution of technology and its use: The Boston Redsox have been caught using Apple Watches to steal New York Yankees pitching calls. For those that don’t follow baseball, the pitcher and the catcher will through hand signals agree on the required pitch. The Red Sox relayed this info to the batting coach, and the batter was informed the most likely pitch to come.
An informed write-up can be found on NY Times.
AT&T Q2 2017: Continues to bleed customers
AT&T continues to lose customers in Q2 of 2017 according to their quarterly report, a reported decline of 351.000 video customers, despite the acquisition of DirecTV . The planned purchase of TimeWarner is still on track and is expected to be completed by the end of this year.
LA Times reported earlier this month that AT&T are planning to form a media division that includes the acquired TimeWarner to be headed by John Stankley (current CEO AT&T entertainment)