Expect Viacom to introduce more apps that let pay-TV subscribers...
Expect Viacom to introduce more apps that let pay-TV subscribers watch its shows on more devices, CEO Philippe Dauman said during the company’s Q3 earnings call Friday. “We already have it with distributors like FiOS,” he said of Verizon’s video…
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service. “You'll see it at several other distributors.” At first, the apps will allow pay-TV subscribers to watch VOD and linear content in the home, but out-of-home access to shows will be enabled “eventually when we have measurement and other issues sorted out,” he said. Dauman said Viacom also plans to make some announcements around the new, premium Epix channel. Viacom’s deal with Netflix, giving that Web distributor exclusive online distribution of Epix movies, is set to expire this month. “We've had discussions with several parties,” Dauman said. “We expect to have an announcement on the outcome of those discussions in the next couple of weeks.” Viacom Q2 sales fell 14 percent from a year earlier to $3.2 billion. Profit fell 9 percent to $523 million. Viacom said the drop was a result of the timing of certain theatrical releases from its film studio, TV event programming and digital distribution agreements in the same quarter a year earlier.