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Netflix will also get ‘at least one holiday game’ in 2025 and 2026
Loss of Comcast revenue renders Bally Sports RSN operator's restructuring plan 'unconfirmable,' league lawyers say in Tuesday court motion
Finnish research company says consumer prices are two to three times higher in markets with three wireless companies vs. those with four
According to Nielsen's new monthly 'Media Distributor Gauge,' Disney controlled an industry-leading 11.5% of U.S. TV viewing in April
Netflix has maintained an industry-low churn rate of 2%, while the rest of the video business is at 5.5%
Relative to traditional pay TV services, half as many surveyed consumers say vMVPDs are the source they watch most often
Belgrad, who left Sony in 2016 and has been producing films including 'Bad Boys for Life' on the Culver City lot ever since, will now report to recently appointed Netflix film chief Dan Lin
New agreement will bring live games from a major American sport to a FAST channel for the first time starting May 19
Also in this week’s ‘Next Text,’ we rediscover HBO's ‘Hacks,’ the NBC primetime schedule … and basic movie-theater civility
A 'bevy of sources' corroborate Boomer Esiason's breathless claims that Netflix is getting into the live NFL game business
While telling analysts he didn’t want to discuss NBA negotiations during Thursday’s earnings call, the WBD CEO did want to remind them he could match any third-party offer
With Sling TV subscribers dropping below 2 million for the first time in seven years, Dish’s pay TV engine can no longer keep the larger EchoStar enterprise afloat, analyst says
Parent company Xperi still insists that TiVo-powered smart TVs will hit U.S. shelves by the end of 2024
Media companies call their triple streaming play 'the best value in entertainment,' but no price or specific launch day was revealed
Finishing 2023 with more than $44 billion of debt, media conglomerate looks for more appendages to chop off
Losing the early public perception battle in its existential carriage war with Comcast, bankrupt regional sports network goes on offense
Cable company cancels Q&A for its Q1 earnings as it considers a proposal from DigitalBridge and Crestview
‘We love the NBA,’ the Warner Bros. Discovery CEO said
The two media giants are still trying to agree on how much NBCU's 33% share in the former JV is worth
Struggling operator of Redbox kiosks works with its primary lenders to buy some time
While consumers tend to blame pay TV distributors first in these kinds of impasses, the focus of fan ire seems to be the bankrupt programmer this time around
This compares to only 22% for Netflix, Hub Entertainment Research finds
Our latest ‘Next Text’ also ponders, is the NBA In-Season Tournament dead … like TNT? And when addressing Paramount’s ‘Office of the CEO,’ which set of eyes do you look into?
