EchoStar, which recently agreed to sell its Dish and Sling TV businesses to DirecTV to create a new pay-TV giant, lost 43,000 net pay-TV subscribers in the third quarter, compared with a drop of 64,000 […]
Georg Szalai
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Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) and Amazon’s Prime Video have expanded their partnership to make WBD’s streaming service Max available as an add-on subscription through Prime Video, bringing that option to Sweden and the Netherlands, where […]
AMC Networks — the company behind such cable channel brands as AMC, IFC and Sundance TV, as well as such streaming services as AMC+, Acorn TV and horror streamer Shudder — reported a 10 percent drop in third-quarter U.S. […]
Paramount Global reported its third-quarter financial results and latest streaming updates, including a swing to a streaming profit from a year-ago loss, on Friday in the Hollywood conglomerate’s second earnings report since its sale to Skydance […]
Warner Bros. Discovery posted a third-quarter profit gain to $289 million for its direct-to-consumer (DTC) unit, which includes its streaming and premium pay-TV services, compared with a $111 million year-ago profit. The company, led by CEO […]
Warner Bros. Discovery has promoted Deniz Şaşmaz Oflaz to the role of vp of local original productions, local channels and streaming operations lead for Turkey. In her expanded role, she will oversee both the streaming […]
Peacock, the streaming service of Comcast’s entertainment unit NBCUniversal, grew its third-quarter revenue and narrowed its loss to $436 million from a loss of $565 million in the year-ago period, but the loss widened a bit compared […]
The Real Housewives of London is coming to Hayu, the reality TV streamer of Comcast’s NBCUniversal that is available in 45 markets outside the U.S., in 2025, the service said on Saturday in unveiling its first-ever […]
Is Europe going FAST, but the U.S. going FASTer? FAST, or free advertising-supported streaming television, and AVOD (advertising-based video on demand) services have been a key growth segment in the U.S. at a time when […]
Spanish-language media giant TelevisaUnivision reported a 6 percent U.S. revenue gain $852.4 million for the third quarter of 2024 as a 5 percent U.S. advertising revenue gain was driven by what it described as a third-quarter company […]
Netflix’s third-quarter results are in, and so are the first Wall Street verdicts on what they mean for the streaming giant and its stock. Most experts had headed into the earnings report with a bullish […]
When Netflix, led by co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters and executive chairman Reed Hastings, reports its third-quarter financial and subscriber figures on Thursday, Oct. 17, will investors get to chill or will the debate […]
Searchlight Pictures (The Banshees of Inisherin, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Poor Things, All of Us Strangers, Jojo Rabbit, Boys Don’t Cry, Napoleon Dynamite, Little Miss Sunshine) top executive Katie Goodson-Thomas told the BFI London Film […]
SkyShowtime, the European streaming joint venture of Comcast and Paramount Global, on Tuesday unveiled the upcoming launch of a new advertising-free premium plan, which will be offered alongside its existing “Standard With Ads” and standard, […]
Evan Shapiro entertained, shocked and awed an industry crowd in Madrid this week. The former top executive at the likes of Comcast’s NBCUniversal and Participant Media, as well as producer (Portlandia, Brick City), now calls […]
Satellite TV giant DirecTV and Charlie Ergen’s EchoStar said Monday that they cut a deal under which DirecTV will acquire EchoStar’s video distribution business Dish DBS, including Dish TV and Sling TV, through a debt […]
Paramount Global’s free, advertising-supported streamer Pluto TV and M6+, French TV company Groupe M6’s new AVOD platform, have signed a strategic commercial and editorial partnership to “scale and expand their free streaming and digital businesses […]
The U.K. needs to be better represented in all its diversity on film and TV screens, fight polarizing fake news, and level the playing field for streamers and traditional broadcasters, Lisa Nandy, U.K. Secretary of […]
Streaming giant Netflix likes to focus on original content with local authenticity and a focus on audiences rather than critics or media executives, co-CEO Ted Sarandos told a TV industry gathering in London on Tuesday. […]
Cable giant Charter Communications‘ CEO Chris Winfrey discussed the impact of AI, including on costs, at an investor conference on Tuesday. During an appearance at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference in San Francisco, which was live-streamed, […]