Author: Jess Barnes
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Disney+ Will Celebrate May the 4th with Star Wars Fan Art
To celebrate May the 4th, otherwise known as Star Wars Day, Disney+ is featuring fan art for Star Wars movies and series. The first fan art to be featured on Disney+ went up on the streaming service today. On the Disney+ landing page, you’ll find artwork showing the duality of good vs evil, featuring characters…
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YouTube TV Has Been Dropped from Roku
Following failed negotiations with Google to keep YouTube TV on Roku, Roku let YouTube TV customers know Friday morning that the app has been removed from the Roku Channel Store. The decision follows statements from both Roku and Google, in which Roku claims Google wanted to skew search results in its favor and change the…
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Sling TV Adds Baseball and Hockey DraftKings Channels
Sling TV is expanding its sports betting channel lineup today with the addition of baseball and hockey channels. Sling launched the DraftKings Basketball channel last week, allowing fans to check on game scores and betting odds in real time. Today, DraftKings Baseball and DraftKings Hockey are joining the basketball channel. The channel additions are a…
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Peacock Reaches 42 Million Sign Ups
In Comcast’s Q1 earnings report Thursday, the company shared new subscriber numbers for Peacock. Peacock has 42 million sign ups to date across the US, up from 33 million sign ups reported for Q4 2020. In Comcast’s earnings call, NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell said that about a third of those 33 million signups are monthly…
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Comcast Lost 491,000 Pay TV Customers in Q1 2021
In Comcast’s Q1 earnings report released Thursday morning, the company reported a 491,000 video customer loss. That number includes 404,000 residential customers and 87,000 business customers. The company added 461,000 broadband customers for the quarter. While customer numbers were down, cable revenue was up for the quarter, due to increasing rates. Video revenue reached $5.623…
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Sling TV Lost 100,000 Subscribers in Q1 2021, Dish Down 230,000 Video Customers
Dish Network reported its first quarter earnings Thursday morning, revealing that Dish lost 230,000 pay TV customers for the quarter and the Dish-owned streaming service Sling TV accounted for 100,000 of those losses. The other 130,000 were Dish TV customers. Sling TV ended the quarter with 2.37 million subscribers. Hulu with Live remains the number…
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HBO Max Ad-Supported Tier will Launch in June at $9.99/Month
Ahead of AT&T’s Investor Day event in March, HBO Max announced that it would launch an ad-supported tier in June. Now, CNBC reports that the new tier of the streaming service will cost $9.99/month. Currently, HBO Max only has an ad-free subscription option for $14.99/month. The ad supported tier will not include same day movie…
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Broadcasters Are Moving Forward in Their Case Against Locast
The case against Locast is moving forward as ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC have filed a letter to the US District Court of New York, outlining their claims against Locast and asking the court to reject Locast’s defense. The suit was initiated in July 2019, over a year after Locast launched as a service to…
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Netflix Officially Launches ‘Play Something’ Button
After many, many tests, Netflix has finally made its shuffle feature official with the launch of the Play Something button. The button was designed to help Netflix users skip the browsing and go directly to a title that was chosen based on titles they’ve watched before and viewing preferences. When you click “Play Something” you’ll…
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Discovery Has Reached 15 Million Subscribers Across Its Streaming Portfolio
Discovery now has 15 million subscribers across its streaming services, including Discovery+, the company reported Wednesday. Discovery+ has surpassed 13 million paid subscribers as of the end of March. Discovery had 11 million streaming subscribers as of February when the company reported Q4 numbers. At that time, Discovery CEO David Zaslav shared that most of…