Georg Szalai

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… Read More »EchoStar Posts Loss of Dish, Gain of Sling TV Subs in Third Quarter, Raises $5.2B in Fresh Capital

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… Read More »Warner Bros. Discovery’s Max Add-on Subscriptions Launched on Prime Video in Sweden, Netherlands

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… Read More »AMC Networks U.S. Ad Revenue Drops 10 Percent, Streaming Subs Rise to 11.8M

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… Read More »Paramount Posts $49M Streaming Profit Amid Gain of 3.5M Subs, Film Unit Swings Back to Black

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… Read More »Warner Bros. Discovery Grows DTC Profit to $289M, Streaming Subs to 110.5M, Led by Olympics

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.… Read More »Warner Bros. Discovery Names Deniz Şaşmaz Oflaz VP, Local Originals, Channels, Streaming Lead, Turkey

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… Read More »Peacock Loss Narrows to $436M as Revenue Rises, Subs Jump to 36M on Paris Olympics Boost

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… Read More »‘The Real Housewives of London’ to Hit NBCU Reality Streamer Hayu as Its First Original Series

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… Read More »TelevisaUnivision Posts Record Third-Quarter U.S. Political Ad Revenue, Streaming Turns Profitable

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… Read More »Netflix Earnings Review: Stock Pop, More Price Target Hikes, But Also More Warnings

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.… Read More »Netflix Earnings Preview: Analysts Bullish Despite a Warning of Unrealistic Expectations

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… Read More »Searchlight Pictures “Can’t Be Competitive” With Giants Like Netflix But Score With “Humanity”: Exec

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… Read More »European Streamer SkyShowtime to Launch Premium Tier (Exclusive)

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… Read More »Tech “Death Stars” and “Horsemen of the Streaming Apocalypse”: Evan Shapiro Says Media Giants Can Not Just Survive But Thrive — If They Change

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… Read More »DirecTV to Acquire Dish and Sling TV, Creating Largest U.S. TV Provider

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… Read More »Paramount’s Pluto TV, France’s M6+ Strike Streaming Partnership

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… Read More »U.K. Culture Secretary Talks Regulation of Streamers, “Pernicious, Unchecked Disinformation”