Paramount and YouTube have a deal. The entertainment company and the Google-owned video platform have cut a new carriage deal that will keep Paramount channels available on the YouTube TV video service. The companies had […]
Alex Weprin
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Amazon beat Wall Street expectations in its latest quarterly earnings report, with its advertising business surging by 18 percent year over year to $17.3 billion. Overall Amazon net sales was $187.8 billion in the quarter, […]
The Walt Disney Co. toppled Wall Street expectations in its latest quarter, with the company’s entertainment division and streaming business leading the charge. Disney reported revenue of $24.7 billion in its fiscal Q1, which ended […]
Women’s sports are having a moment, with viewership up, leagues inking lucrative new TV deals, and interest among fans never higher. With that in mind, the streaming platform Roku, Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine and Rich […]
In a streaming world filled with giant platforms spending $15 billion per year or more on content, a surprise player raised eyebrows last month when it hit 2 percent of TV viewing time in Nielsen’s […]
A post-Venu pay-TV landscape is beginning to take shape, with Comcast Xfinity launching a new skinny (or at least skinnier) streaming bundle of channels focused on sports and news programming. The offering, Sports & News […]
CNN on Thursday announced major layoffs and a new strategic plan, in a post-election maneuver meant to help transform the cable channel during a challenging time for the media business. CNN CEO Mark Thompson announced […]
Las Vegas‘ newest residency isn’t a musical act, it’s an opportunity to taste everything Netflix has to offer. Netflix says that it will open its latest experiential project on the casino floor at the MGM […]
The NFL and a record-shattering boxing match between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul helped Netflix add 19 million subscribers in its fourth quarter — a new record for the company, surpassing even COVID-era highs — […]
Super Bowl LIX will be everywhere on February 9. The 2025 Super Bowl is set to air on Fox, and will also be available on Fox Deportes, the NFL’s digital properties and on NBCUniversal’s Telemundo […]
Now that Venu Sports is dead, DirecTV thinks that it can fill the void. The satellite TV service is launching a new, streaming multichannel video service called MySports, which will feature the same channels as […]
Venu is dead. The sports-focused streaming service co-founded by The Walt Disney Co, Warner Bros. Discovery and Fox Corp. will not move forward, the companies said Friday. “After careful consideration, we have collectively agreed to […]
Apple is bringing one of its biggest shows to a free streaming platform, in an apparent bet that the influx of viewers will help drive new subscribers to its Apple TV+ streaming service. Roku on […]
New year, new streaming price hikes. Warner Bros. Discovery is the first media company to raise the price of a streaming service in 2025, hiking the cost of Discovery+ by $1 to $5.99 for the […]
2025 has only just started, but NBCUniversal‘s chairman of advertising sales Mark Marshall is already thinking about 2026. It’s easy to understand why. 2026 is the 100th anniversary of NBC, and next year the network […]
The Walt Disney Co. will merge its streaming multichannel video service Hulu with Live TV with its competitor Fubo in a surprise deal that will shake up the streaming TV business, the companies said Monday. […]
When Netflix first picked up its package of Christmas Day NFL games, there was one thing everyone was wondering in Hollywood: Given the streamer’s desire to lean into big events, what would it do to […]
To say Netflix has a lot riding on the return of Squid Game is an understatement. The South Korean series immediately emerged as a flagship show when it debuted three years ago. Since then there […]
In a blockbuster move that expands Netflix‘s sports presence, the streaming giant has picked up the exclusive U.S. streaming rights to the 2027 and 2031 editions of the FIFA Women’s World Cup. It will be […]
Last month Netflix shattered streaming viewership records when it played host to a boxing match between the former YouTube star Jake Paul and boxing legend Mike Tyson. Now it’s hoping to replicate some of that […]
Roku is continuing to add exclusive sports rights to its streaming platform. The latest deal will make Roku the exclusive streaming home for the X Games, the extreme sports competition that was founded by ESPN […]
Just weeks after the bout with Jake Paul shattered streaming viewership records, Netflix says that Mike Tyson will be the subject of an upcoming documentary series. The series will be made with Tyson’s full cooperation, […]