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Verizon To Bundle Ad-Supported Netflix and Max for $10 a Month
By Daniel Frankel published
Unlimited wireless promotion trims 40% off the retail price for both ad-subsidized streaming services

BrightLine Puts Pedal To the Metal With New CTV Ad Formats
By Jon Lafayette published
More robust interactive commercials promise higher engagement

U.S. TV Ad Spending To Drop 5.1% to $52.3 Billion, GroupM Forecasts
By Jon Lafayette published
Gains by connected TV don’t fully offset traditional TV losses

One of These Things Is Not Like the Other: Was Florida State's Perfect 13-0 Record Sacked By the SEC's $3 Billion TV Deal With Disney/ESPN?
By Daniel Frankel, David Bloom published
In our latest 'Next Text,' we ponder college football's playoff travesty, retrans' ratcheted-up rhetoric, Disney's Culture War floggings and a bunch of other stuff that's unfair and just not right

FCC Chair: Regulatory Authority Over Streaming Must Come From Congress
By John Eggerton published
Jessica Rosenworcel doubles down on her view that agency lacks authority at present

Younify Adds The Roku Channel To Universal Streaming Guide
By Jon Lafayette published
AVOD service joins Tubi and Pluto TV

DirecTV’s Rob Thun Tells Tegna to Get Direct With Either the Networks or Pay TV Customers as the Latest Retrans Dispute Devolves Into Yet Another Blackout
By Daniel Frankel published
DirecTV’s top programming executive says he‘s ‘dead serious’ this time about no longer getting caught in the middle of a dialectic that’s seen retrans fees spike 270% since 2015. And he has a Charter-esque proposal Tegna’s probably not going to like

Verizon Appears to Have Rebranded Its ‘Stream TV’ Android TV-Based Gadget as Fios TV+, Made It the Default Set-Top For New Fios Video Customers
By Daniel Frankel published
Verizon's dwindling legion of new Fios linear video users can watch their pay TV subscription and streaming services all on one Android TV-based device
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