Author: Roger Cheng
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Disney+ Lost 1.3 Million Customers After Price Hike as Streaming Services Lost $138 Million
Walt Disney’s streaming services continued to lose money, and its efforts to tighten its belt are having an effect on its customer base. In an effort to get Disney+ and Hulu into the black, the company took steps like removing content from Disney+ and Hulu, raising prices, and moving forward with a password sharing crackdown.…
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The ESPN, FOX, Warner Bros. Discovery Sports Bundle Will Reportedly Cost More Than $30
The monster sports bundle between Walt Disney’s ESPN, FOX, and Warner Bros. Discovery will likely cost more than $30 a month, CNBC reported on Wednesday. The companies announced the joint venture a day earlier, with the intent to launch the standalone service in the fall. The so-called skinny bundle of 14 cable channels would offer…
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FOX CEO Says New Sports Mega Bundle Will Go After ‘Cord Nevers,’ and Isn’t Worried About Hurting Cable
FOX CEO Lachlan Murdoch said he believes the new sports mega bundle created alongside Disney’s ESPN and Warner Bros. Discovery will allow the company to tap into a market of “cord nevers,” which he said was as large as 60 million households. At the same time, he also downplayed the risk that this would accelerate…
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T-Mobile Reboots its Rewards Program With New Perks Like $5 Movie Tickets and Free Gas
T-Mobile is doubling down on loyalty rewards and on Wednesday introduced Magenta Status, a new program offering a bevy of discounts and freebies the company said adds up to $1,500 in extra value. The perks include a free hotel status upgrade with Hilton Honors, $5 movie tickets once a month, a gas discount at rental…
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Sinclair’s Local ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX Stations Will Use AI For More Targeted Ads
Sinclair Broadcast Group on Tuesday said it would start employing artificial intelligence to power how it will deliver ads to you. The company, which owns or operates 186 television ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX stations around the country, is working with AI company Futuri, which will be supplying its TopLine tool, which is designed to…
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Break Up Disney? One Activist Investor Wants to Split Up the Media Giant
The battle over Walt Disney’s future has gotten even more complicated, with another activist investor jumping in with his own proposal to break up the media giant in smaller businesses. The proposal comes from Blackwells Capital, a second investor looking to shake up the company with its own candidates to serve on the board. In…
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DIRECTV STREAM Adds Three New The CW Affiliates to its Lineup
DIRECTV on Tuesday said it added three new The CW affiliates to its live-TV streaming service, DIRECTV STREAM. The channels are KGCW-CW in Quad Cities, Iowa, WWLP-CW in Springfield-Holyoke, Massachusetts, and KXMA-CW in Minot-Bismarck-Dickinson, North Dakota. The three channels are just the latest affiliates to be added to DIRECTV STREAM’s lineup as the company works…
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ESPN, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery Team Up For Sports Streaming Bundle to Launch in Fall
Walt Disney’s ESPN, FOX, and Warner Bros. Discovery on Tuesday said they were forming a joint venture to create a new sports-centric streaming service that would bundle together the three media giant’s content. The joint venture will have its own leadership, and the three companies will each one a one-third stake in the business, which…
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Disney+ Joins Hulu in Password Sharing Crackdown
It appears the era of sharing passwords to access Walt Disney services is coming to an end. Disney+ began emailing customers this morning alerting them of new policies related to sharing. The language is identical to what users of sister service Hulu received last week, noting that the service is adding limitations on sharing outside…
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Halo Showrunner Teases a ‘Darker, Grittier, and Relentless’ Season
The first season of Paramount+’s Halo took big swings – even if they didn’t always connect. The show created the epic look and feel of the video games, and nailed the Master Chief’s iconic Mjolnir armor. But it made some head-turning decisions, from unlikable characters that seemed detached from the main story to revealing not…