Digital video recorders (DVR) typically are seen as the ultimate threat to TV advertising, giving consumers unsurpassed control over what they choose to watch or not watch on their TV sets, including ...

Broadcasters received moral support this morning from cable in the looming battle against the new Auto Hop feature on Dish Network‘s Hopper DVRs, which enables the machines to automatically recognize ...

Dish Network is already fighting the major broadcast TV networks in federal court over its ad-zapping DVR service, and now the company is facing an attack on another front — from the federal ...

Dish Network released a DVR feature that can automatically skip commercials from nationally broadcast prime-time shows, a move that threatens billions of dollars in broadcast-television advertising.