Analysis

The second quarter of this year saw 232 merger and acquisition deals in the U.S. media and telecommunications sector, according to PwC, down 9 percent on Q1 but higher than the 192 recorded in the same period last year.

Live TV viewing dropped by 10 minutes in the first quarter of the year to 4 hours, 21 minutes (4:21) per day per person among adults, according to Nielsen's Q1 Total Audience Report.

Netflix has cracked the top four in its first appearance in Solutions Research Group’s (SRG) annual Must Keep TV Report, finishing behind ABC, CBS and NBC but ahead of FOX.

The volume of broadcast-station mergers and acquisitions in the U.S. reached $4.47 billion in the second quarter of 2017, according to estimates from Kagan, due primarily to large TV deals.

Parks Associates says that 9 percent of U.S. broadband homes will buy a VR headset within the next year.

Over the next five years, the number of U.S. pay-TV subscribing households will fall by 10.8 million to reach 82.3 million in 2021, according to new projections from Kagan.

The top ten pay-TV service providers in the U.S. lost more than half a million subscribers in the first quarter of 2017, according to the informitv Multiscreen Index, marking the largest loss for the country so far.

New consumer research from Leichtman Research Group (LRG) finds that 69 percent of U.S. TV households have at least one television set connected to the internet.

New research from GfK finds that the preferences of so-called "cord nevers" and "cord cutters" differ in many ways, including their tastes in streaming video platforms and the shows they watch on them.

PwC's latest Deals Insights report for the U.S. entertainment, media and communications sector expects merger and acquisition activity to remain robust, despite regulatory uncertainties and a tightening of investment from China.