Author: Kayla Wassell
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Warner Bros Discovery President of Unscripted TV Plans to Step Down
After some consideration, Mike Darnell has decided to leave Warner Bros. Discovery after a decade-long run as President of Unscripted Television. “Letting yourself go is always difficult… I took a deep breath, called myself on Zoom, and told myself it was time to leave. I took it surprisingly well. Actually, Channing approached me a couple…
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Netflix Password Crackdown Is Working As New Subscriber Numbers Skyrocket
Facing a steady decline in account holders for the first time in a decade, Netflix made a decision to ban password sharing. Although first met with a lot of public outcry and threats to cancel accounts, it appears Netflix’s plan to drive up declining membership numbers has worked better than expected. Since enforcing its password…
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Disney’s CEO Says The Studio is Shifting Focus Away From Marvel & Star Wars
Since coming back to Disney after a brief retirement, CEO Bob Iger is looking to cut $5.5 billion in overall costs including $3 billion from content creation. As part of this strategy, Bob Iger said the company is shifting focus away from the Marvel and Star Wars franchises to focus on a greater variety of…
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T-Mobile Takes First Place Overall in Speed Tests
T-Mobile announces the “UnCarrier” has outperformed its competitors in an overall 5G performance test run by Ookla, a company providing network intelligence and connectivity insights. “The network we’ve built stands as a testament to T-Mobile’s unwavering dedication to our goal of providing customers with the best experience possible,” said Ulf Ewaldsson, President of Technology at…
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Verizon Named J.D. Power’s Top-Rated Mobile Carrier For Overall Quality
A new study released by J.D. Power titled the 2023 U.S. Wireless Network Quality Performance Study Volume 2 rated mobile carriers on their overall call quality and reliability factors, naming Verizon the best of the bunch. From January through June of this year, the study evaluated 26,215 wireless customers in six different regions, looking at…
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CBS Revises Fall Lineup, Adding Paramount+ Content & Yellowstone to the Schedule As Writers & Actors Strike
CBS is bringing a number of shows to its fall lineup. Spots previously slated to feature new series, such as Elsbeth and NCIS: Hawai’I, will be filled by reality series and Paramount+ content due to the ongoing writers’ and actors’ strikes. “We’re spending a lot of time looking at research and figuring out which are…
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The FCC Invests $13.9 Million in The Emergency Connectivity Fund Program to Expand Internet Access
The Federal Communications Commission is investing over $13.9 million in an Emergency Connectivity Fund Program directed toward schools and libraries. The program aims to provide resources for around 35,000 students in 52 schools and districts across the country, including California, New York, Illinois, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, and Virginia to name a few. The program…
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Altice The 4th Largest Cable TV Provider Chairman Steps Down Due to an Ongoing Corruption Investigation
The Altice Group is looking at some serious allegations and as a result, the company is shaking up its leadership roles. The decision was made after Co-Founder Armando Pereira spent the weekend in custody due to suspicions of money laundering and fiscal fraud. Altice Portugal is under investigation for corruption alongside 90 other businesses and…
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Studios Are Reportedly Planning to Wait Out Strikers Hoping Money Problems Will Weaken Actors & Writers
Rumors are flying around the ongoing writers’ strike that started May 2nd and the latest rumblings aren’t putting the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers in a flattering light. “The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses,” said one anonymous studio executive…
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Fixed Wireless Home Internet is Becoming Even Faster As Cord Cutting 2.0 Comes For Comcast & Spectrum
Upload speeds hit a new record high with the use of Ericsson’s uplink Single User Multiple Input Multiple Output (SU-MIMO) and Uplink Carrier Aggregation alongside MediaTek’s T830 CPE tri-antenna platform. Combined, the technologies reached upload speeds of 565 Mbps during a demo using a 2.1 GHz Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) band with a 3.5 GHz…