Author: Roger Cheng
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The Disney+ Password-Sharing Crackdown Hammer Won’t Truly Fall Until 2025
Families and friends sharing a password to use Disney+ are getting a reprieve. Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger said that while the company will start putting in technology into the service to start detecting password sharing next year, it subscribers won’t feel the impact until 2025. “There’s no meaningful impact until 2025,” Iger said on…
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The CW Dispute in Detroit is Escalating With a Request For ‘Legal Hold’
The state of The CW in the Detroit market continues to spiral out of control. The latest wrinkle has an attorney for Kevin Adell, owner of WADL-TV, sending a note to E.W. Scripps and its WMYD-TV station seeking a “legal hold” on all documents related to its agreement to carry Nexstar’s The CW network. This…
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Disney Plans to Release Hulu on Disney+ Beta in December Ahead of Official Spring 2024 Launch
Walt Disney will soon offer a taste of what an app integrating Hulu with Disney+ will look like in a beta test. Disney CEO Bob Iger said during the company’s earnings conference call that the beta version of Hulu on Disney+ will come out in December, allowing parents to set up different profiles to account…
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Disney+ Adds Nearly 7 Million Subscribers But the Streaming Business Lost $420 Million
Walt Disney continues to see customer growth for its Disney+ service, but its big bet on streaming continues to be a drag on the media giant’s bottom line. The company, which posted its fiscal fourth-quarter results on Wednesday, reported adding nearly 7 million core subscribers to its Disney+ service, driven primarily by growth overseas. It…
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Nintendo to Make Live-Action Legend of Zelda After Super Mario Bros. Success
Nintendo confirmed on Wednesday that it would be producing a live-action version of The Legend of Zelda. The film will be produced by Nintendo with co-creator Shigeru Miyamoto serving as producer, and Avi Arad, formerly of Marvel Studios, who worked on projects like Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Uncharted, and Venom. Nintendo and Sony Pictures will…
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WNBA Saw its Audience Surge Thanks to Free OTA ION Network
The WNBA’s move to E.W. Scripps Company’s ION network has paid dividends in higher ratings and audience reach. Scripps and the WNBA said on Wednesday that total viewership of its games rose by 24% to 39 million viewers for the season, a tally that includes all games on all networks. The WNBA and Scripps completed…
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The Detroit CW Feud With Nexstar Gets Ugly With Cease and Desist Letter
Kevin Adell, the owner of Detroit-area TV station WADL, sent a cease and desist letter to rival local station WMYD and parent E.W. Scripps demanding it kill its plans to start carrying The CW Network next week.WA The fate of where The CW heads to in Detroit is up in the air thanks to an…
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Crunchyroll Pulls a Netflix and Unveils Free Mobile Games For Subscribers
Crunchyroll is following in Netflix’s footsteps and offering free mobile games to some of its subscribers. The anime streaming service on Tuesday unveiled Crunchyroll Game Vault, which includes five games available to members on its Mega and Ultimate Fan tiers, the upper two tiers of its subscription plans. The games include Captain Velvet Meteor: The…
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YouTube TV Has Signed Up 1.3 Million NFL Sunday Ticket Subscribers, Antenna Study Says
Google’s YouTube is making the most of having NFL’s Sunday Ticket in its lineup, with one study estimating it has 1.3 million subscribers. Of that total, which was calculated in a study by research firm Antenna, 62% of the sign-ups have occurred through existing YouTube TV customers. The NFL’s own NFL+ service, featuring live local…
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WWE NXT Finds a New Home at The CW
The WWE said that WWE NXT, which showcases its up-and-coming wrestling talent, will move from the USA Network to The CW in October 2024. The move comes after the WWE announced that its Friday Night Smackdown program will return to the USA Network that same month after striking a five-year deal with NBC Universal. By…