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Pickleball Slam Subway

Subway Signs As Presenting Sponsor Of Pickleball Slam

Jon Lafayette published 27 March 23

ESPN to television $1 million event featuring Andre Agassi, John McEnroe, Andy Roddick, Michael Chang

Mona Dexter

Comcast NBCU Names Mona Dexter To Head Military & Veteran Affairs

Jon Lafayette published 27 March 23

Exec succeeds retiring Carol Eggert

Aaron Sorkin

Aaron Sorkin on AI, Streaming … and The Big Strike (Bloom)

David Bloom published 26 March 23

Relax, he says, ‘You're going to enjoy things written by humans for a long time’

A communications satellite orbiting Earth

OneWeb Says Its Big Step Closer to Global Broadband Play

John Eggerton published 26 March 23

Launches three dozen more low earth orbit satellites

Jamal Shead #1 of the Houston Cougars drives the ball against K.D. Johnson #0 of the Auburn Tigers during the first half in the second round of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament at Legacy Arena at the BJCC on March 18, 2023 in Birmingham, Alabama.

‘March Madness’ Continues: What’s On This Weekend in TV Sports (March 25-26)

R. Thomas Umstead published 24 March 23

A look at the weekend's top TV sports events on broadcast, cable and streaming services

You on Netflix

‘You’ Gets Fifth and Final Season on Netflix

Michael Malone published 24 March 23

Penn Badgley to play creepy Joe Goldberg one more time

Profit margin per hour viewed on traditional video platform is still slightly higher than the streaming leader
Linear's Dead? Well, It's Still (Slightly) More Efficient Than Netflix (Chart of the Week) Profit margin per hour viewed on traditional video platform is still slightly higher than the streaming leader
Last season’s Thursday-night schedule was full of lopsided scores and teams that didn't make the playoffs
NFL to Discuss ‘Flex Scheduling’ to Fix Amazon’s ‘Thursday Night Football’ Mismatches Last season’s Thursday-night schedule was full of lopsided scores and teams that didn't make the playoffs
Having previously only dabbled in theatrical distribution, Apple is reportedly looking to follow Amazon's blueprint
Apple Set to Spend $1 Billion a Year to Become Global Box Office Player Having previously only dabbled in theatrical distribution, Apple is reportedly looking to follow Amazon's blueprint
Across-the-board price cuts include $150 off Roku’s 65-inch QLED ‘Plus’ and ‘Select’ Series models
Slow Start? Best Buy Starts Discounting Roku TVs Just Two Weeks After They Hit Store Shelves Across-the-board price cuts include $150 off Roku’s 65-inch QLED ‘Plus’ and ‘Select’ Series models
Channels include Documentary+, Anime X HIDIVE, Mirror Now and 13 Spanish-language outlets
Sling’s New ‘Freestream’ FAST Adds 16 Channels Channels include Documentary+, Anime X HIDIVE, Mirror Now and 13 Spanish-language outlets
But games will be shown in bars and restaurants via a deal with DirecTV for Business
Apple Puts ’Friday Night Baseball’ Behind the $6.99-a-Month Apple TV Plus Paywall (See the 2023 Game Schedule) But games will be shown in bars and restaurants via a deal with DirecTV for Business

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A gavel in a stock photo

U.S. Appeals Court Upholds FCC Broadband Subsidy Process

By John Eggerton published 24 March 23

Says use of private company USAC is not an impermissible delegation of authority

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TikTok CEO Shou Chew testifies before the House Energy & Commerce Committee

Capitol Hill Chews Out TikTok CEO Shou Chew

By John Eggerton published 23 March 23

Hearing features calls for bans of short-form video site

Multichannel News
MLB.tv

Fubo To Offer MLB.TV Out-of-Market Games Package as a $24.99-a-Month Add-On

By Daniel Frankel published 23 March 23

With the integration of the DTC service, Fubo is aggressively marketing its virtual pay TV service as the destination for live baseball ahead of Opening Day

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Tubi advertising

Tubi Sets Integrations With VideoAmp, LiveRamp, Comscore

By Jon Lafayette published 23 March 23

Pause Ads now available on streaming service

Broadcasting & Cable
Amazon Fire TV

Amazon Expands Its Own Fire TV Smart TV Lineup, Targets U.K., Germany, Mexico

By Daniel Frankel published 22 March 23

Amazon also says that it has sold 200 million Fire TV devices globally

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DirecTV installer truck

DirecTV to Resume Carriage of Newsmax

By Daniel Frankel published 22 March 23

Pay TV provider says the far-right channel will return to all of its platforms Thursday ‘at no additional cost to customers’

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Telemundo California News on Samsung TV Plus

Local News From Telemundo Stations To Stream on Samsung TV Plus

By Jon Lafayette published 22 March 23

California, Florida launched; Northeast, Texas channels arrive in April

Broadcasting & Cable

Business

MLB.tv

Fubo To Offer MLB.TV Out-of-Market Games Package as a $24.99-a-Month Add-On

By Daniel Frankel published 23 March 23

With the integration of the DTC service, Fubo is aggressively marketing its virtual pay TV service as the destination for live baseball ahead of Opening Day

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DirecTV installer truck

DirecTV to Resume Carriage of Newsmax

By Daniel Frankel published 22 March 23

Pay TV provider says the far-right channel will return to all of its platforms Thursday ‘at no additional cost to customers’

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Amazon Prime Video series 'Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power'

Amazon’s $500 Million ‘Lord of the Rings’ Series Was the ‘Peak of the Bubble,’ Says Analyst Who Predicts Content Spending Will Increase by Just 1% in 2023

By Daniel Frankel published 21 March 23

The party‘s definitely over now, says MoffettNathanson‘s Robert Fishman, as media moves into the ‘post-Streaming Wars’

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Maria Bartiromo

Producer Sues Fox News, Claims Network Is Setting Her Up, Along With Anchor Maria Bartiromo, to Take the Fall in $1.6 Billion Dominion Voting Fiasco

By Daniel Frankel published 21 March 23

Fox responds by seeking a restraining order against producer Abby Grossberg to keep her from disclosing 'privileged' information about the Dominion matter

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Roku scripted chief Brian Tannenbaum

Roku's Originals Ranks Shift Again -- Scripted Chief Colin Davis Exits for Sony, Replaced by Brian Tannenbaum

By Daniel Frankel published 20 March 23

Latest move comes after unscripted chief David Eilenberg took over for Rob Holmes as head of content in January

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Technology

Amazon Fire TV

Amazon Expands Its Own Fire TV Smart TV Lineup, Targets U.K., Germany, Mexico

By Daniel Frankel published 22 March 23

Amazon also says that it has sold 200 million Fire TV devices globally

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Dish Network Hopper

Dish Gets Judge to Toss Jury's $469 Million Patent Verdict

By Daniel Frankel published 21 March 23

Decision comes just 11 days after a Salt Lake City jury awarded parental-control tech maker ClearPlay nearly half a billion dollars over two technologies used in Dish's AutoHop commercial-skipping feature

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Charter Communications logo on a wall

Charter Chooses Harmonic for Key Piece of Network Virtualization Upgrade

By Daniel Frankel published 21 March 23

No. 2 U.S. cable operator’s decision to use Harmonic virtual CMTS comes after Comcast has spent over $450 million on the vendor's virtualization tech

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Casa Systems founding CEO Jerry Guo

Casa Systems Founder/CEO Jerry Guo Retires, as Cable Tech Vendor Gets Bad News From Tier 1 Client

By Daniel Frankel published 15 March 23

‘Major North American customer‘ will not be proceeding with Casa on its big network upgrade, company said

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Netflix ad-supported tier

Netflix Pondering Ways to Move on From Microsoft on Ad Tech (Report)

By Daniel Frankel published 14 March 23

Netflix hires former Comcast-FreeWheel exec Jon Whitticom to consult the company on building or buying its own ad tech

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