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A Second Amazon Prime Day 2023 is Coming! Here is Everything We Know Inducing The Date
Amazon recently just finished its big summer Prime Day sale back in July. Now it has already been announced that a second big event will be coming soon. Details are still thin, but here is everything Amazon announced today. When is the second Prime Day even happen in 2023? Amazon says their next big Prime…
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Peacock Will Use USA to Promote Its Original Show, ‘Killing It’ Hoping More Cable TV Subscribers Will Join
Peacock is building up hype for the second season premiere of its critically acclaimed comedy series Killing It by allowing folks to catch up with season one in a surprising number of places. Killing It will stream in a limited capacity on YouTube, TikTok, and USA Network. The move to use USA Network, a cable…
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Amazon’s New Fire TVs Are Reportedly Coming Next Month. Here is Everything We Know
Recently, Amazon announced a major event for September 20th, 2023. At this event will announce new devices that will reportedly include a new Fire TV. This date was announced by Amazon’s Senior Vice President of Devices and Services, David Limp, who posted this save-the-date announcement: “The Devices & Services team has already had a very…
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DISH & Sling TV Lost 294,000 Subscribers in The 2nd Quarter of 2023
Today DISH announced its 2nd quarter 2023 earnings and reported that DISH and Sling TV lost 294,000 subscribers. This worked out to the company losing 3,230 subscribers every day in the 2nd quarter of 2023. Sling TV reportedly lost 97,000, and DISH lost 197,000 subscribers. In total, DISH now has 8,904,000 pay TV customers between…
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DISH Network Will Merge With EchoStar As It Looks For Cash
Today DISH Network announced a deal to merge with its sister company EchoStar. DISH, the parent company of Sling TV has been struggling for cash for some time now and is hoping this deal could help it complete its 5G buildout. This deal will be an all-stock merger. “This is a strategically and financially compelling…
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Nexstar The Largest Owner of ABC, CBS, FOX, & NBC Affiliates Saw Ad Revenues Drop $87 Million Year-Over-Year
Across the television industry adverting revenues have continued to fall. Now Nexstar the largest owner and operator of ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC affiliates has reported that in the 2nd quarter of 2023, its ad revenues fell $87 million compared to the same period last year. Overall revenues for the quarter were only down $5…
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Comcast & Centurylink Try But Fail to Stop a New Local Fiber Broadband Internet Provider
Local communities are taking control of their own broadband destiny, with an increasing number opting to fund and build their own networks. That initiative has been met with resistance from the larger internet service providers and cable companies. Take Bountiful, Utah. The city, with about 45,438 residents, didn’t merit a lot of attention from the…
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Hospitals In Four States Recovering From a Massive Cyber Attack
A massive cyber attack shut down hospitals and other medical facilities in at least four states. The attack disrupted the computer systems at Prospect Medical Holdings, which is based in California but has facilities in Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Texas. In some cases, ambulances had to relocate patients to unaffected hospitals in the area. Clinics…
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Paramount Plus and Pluto Cost the Company $424 Million
Paramount’s big bet on streaming, from subscription services like Paramount Plus to its free ad-supported Pluto TV, continues to be a drag on the company. The media giant’s direct-to-consumer business posted a second-quarter operating loss of $424 million, bringing the company’s overall finances into the red. That’s despite the company crowing about subscription revenue growing…
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How to Watch Team USA Men’s Basketball Without Cable
For basketball fans wanting to catch every action-packed moment of Team USA Men’s Basketball competing in the FIBA Men’s Basketball World Cup, it’s crucial to know where and how to stream the games. The world of streaming has many advantages over traditional cable, such as flexible cancelation policies, and often without the extra fees and…
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Why You May See More Free Games With Regional Sports Networks Struggling
With regional sports networks like Bally’s Sports and AT&T SportsNet flailing, it’s becoming harder to figure out where your favorite professional sports teams will be on air. Gray Television, a broadcast company that owns nearly 200 stations in 113 markets, is working to offer some of these games for free through an over-the-air antenna. The…
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Paramount Will Reportedly Sell Simon & Schuster As It Focuses on Its Paramount+ Streaming Service
Paramount Global is once again working with financial advisors to successfully sell Simon & Schuster, the third largest book publisher. This time it looks like the deal may actually happen. In 2020 an attempt to sell Simon & Schuster in a $2.2 billion deal to Penguin Random House was blocked by United States regulators over…
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Warner Bros. Discovery’s Max Streaming Service Will Reportedly Add Live MLB, NBA, & NHL Games This Fall
Last week, Warner Bros. Discovery announced it will start live streaming news and sports on Max soon. This comes during Warner Bros. Discovery’s 2nd quarter 2023 earnings call when they announced that Max was now capable of streaming live events. While Warner Bros. Discovery didn’t announce what would be streaming live on Max, they said…
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Dish’s $21 Billion Mystery: How Does it Build a 5G Network With So Much Debt?
Dish Wireless has spent a fortune building out a nationwide wireless network. But how many people will actually use it when it’s finished? That’s one of the key questions dogging Dish as the company is set to report its second-quarter results, expected later this month (Update: It lost another 188,000 wireless subscribers). The company is…
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Apple’s iPhone 15 Will Reportedly Launch in Mid-September
You can pretty much set a watch to Apple’s big iPhone event each year, and 2023 doesn’t look to break from tradition. The company is expected to hold its launch event on September 12 or 13, with the iPhone 15 phones coming out on September 22, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The phones are expected…
