{"id":80662,"date":"2013-07-10T22:14:54","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T14:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/satellite-and-cable-companies-push-to-secure-over-the-top-rights\/"},"modified":"2013-07-10T22:14:54","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T14:14:54","slug":"satellite-and-cable-companies-push-to-secure-over-the-top-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/satellite-and-cable-companies-push-to-secure-over-the-top-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Satellite and Cable Companies Push to Secure Over-the-Top Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: DirecTV, Video Streaming, TV Content<br \/>\nPublication: TheVerge.com<br \/>\nPublication Date: 07\/10\/2013<\/p>\n<table width=\"150\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" cellpadding=\"6\" cellspacing=\"2\" margin=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"256\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/DIRECTV.JPG\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\nImage credit: Wikimedia Commons\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>As <strong>DirecTV<\/strong> attempts to acquire <strong>Hulu<\/strong>, an online video service provider, the satellite TV provider is also making a push to secure Over-the-Top (OTT) rights from cable channels and other programmers.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe OTT distribution model allows subscribers to receive TV content over the Internet without any need for a set-top box. Additionally, OTT rights could help DirecTV and cable companies compete with Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and other video streaming services. The model could also help television providers extend their traditional reach, attaining new customers and compete in regions typically dominated by one provider.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" align=\"absMiddle\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/FullStoryArrow.png\">&nbsp;Full story<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: DirecTV, Video Streaming, TV Content Publication: TheVerge.com Publication Date: 07\/10\/2013 Image credit: Wikimedia Commons As DirecTV attempts to acquire Hulu, an online video service provider, the satellite TV provider is also making a push to secure Over-the-Top (OTT) rights from cable channels and other programmers. &nbsp; The OTT distribution model allows subscribers to receive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}