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Will The Internet Kill DirecTV?

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Cable and satellite TV have battled for the American living room for a number of years. Both can offer hundreds of channels and now both offer HD TV.

The telecom companies have been satellite TV allies. With cable offering packages of voice, broaband and TV, the telephone operators could only offer voice systems and DSL broadband. Phone companies built alliances with DirecTV and Echostar so that they could offer all three services.

That is changing as Verizon and AT&T begin delivering TV over the internet, with hundreds of channels and HD offering. Fiber-to-the-home has changed the playing field. The big telecom companies are becoming the natural enemies of satellite TV companies, almost overnight.

Verizon want the cable customer, but to get a reaonable share of the home TV market, it will also have to take share from its former allies at DirecTV.

Satellite television now has two compeitors after having only one for a number of years. That could bring more price competition to the market, not something that the satellite vendors wanted to see.

Douglas A McIntyre can be reached at [email protected]. He does not own securities in companies that he writes about.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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