Tag: Discovery
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Weekend Wrap-Up: Roku Earnings, T-Mobile Troubles, Spectrum Price Hikes, and More
Welcome to November 2020. There is, shall we say, a lot going on right now beyond the entertainment world, but there was still plenty of cord cutting and streaming news to talk about this week. We’ve got more third quarter earnings to talk about from Roku and others and more streaming app support for next-gen…
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NBC and ViacomCBS Join Discovery in Expressing Concern Over T-Mobile Content Distribution
Earlier today, Discovery CEO David Zaslav mentioned during the company’s Q3 earnings call that he took issue with the way T-Mobile designed the channel lineups for its new streaming services. Zaslav was “very surprised” to see Discovery owned channels on the Vibe plan but missing from the TVision Live plans. ViacomCBS followed suit, saying that…
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Discovery Will Announce Its Upcoming Streaming Service in December
We’ve been hearing about Discovery’s plan to launch a streaming service that would feature content from across its portfolio of brands since November 2019. Now, Discovery CEO David Zaslav says we’ll finally get an update on the service next month. During today’s Q3 earnings call, Zaslav said “The whole company has been focused on this,…
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Discovery Says T-Mobile Shouldn’t Be Including Its Channels on Low-Cost Plan
T-Mobile’s TVision streaming app launched just a few days ago, but there’s already tension surrounding the app. Discovery is taking issue with how T-Mobile packaged its channels for the app’s plan. In today’s Q3 earnings call, Discovery CEO David Zaslav commented on Discovery-owned channels showing up in the low cost Vibe plan, saying the company…
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Discovery’s New Streaming Service Will Launch “Very Soon”
At a Goldman Sachs conference this week, Discovery CEO David Zaslav said that the company is worked on new, original content for its upcoming streaming service, noting that the service will be launching “very soon.” “So we’ve been very quietly over the last year working aggressively, getting all of our stuff together,” Zaslav said, according…
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Discovery Gets Closer to Launch of Its New Streaming Service
In today’s quarterly earnings call, Discovery CEO David Zaslav shared more information about the company’s upcoming streaming service. When discussing plans for the service, Zaslav compared it to “a new SUV” compared to “sportscars” like Netflix and other top streaming services. When competing with other services, Discovery plans to differentiate itself by being “useful every day”…
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Discovery and Sky Add Non-Linear Brands to Their Partnership in Expanded Deal
Discovery has renewed its partnership with Comcast-owned Sky in a new long term, multifaceted deal that will keep Discovery’s channels across the Sky Network in the UK, Ireland, Austria, and Germany. In addition to linear channels, the new deal now encompasses non-linear brands in the UK and Ireland. Sky will now be a distributor of…
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Discovery is Launching a Spanish HGTV Network
Discovery has announced the launch of Hogar de HGTV, a Spanish language network that pulls content from Food Network, HGTV and Discovery. The new channel will debut on Cox contour June 30 and Charter Spectrum August 1. This will be Discovery’s third Hispanic network joining Discovery en Español and Discovery Familia. “Discovery is already well-regarded…
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Amazon Fire TV is Offering One Year Free of Food Network Kitchen
Today, Amazon and Discovery announced a partnership that will bring Food Network Kitchen to Fire TV and Fire Tablet customers in the US for free, for one year. Fire TV users will have access to live and on-demand cooking classes from experts and Food Network personalities including Bobby Flay, Rachael Ray, Giada De Laurentiis, Guy…
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Chip and Joanna Gaines’ Magnolia Network Launch Date Delayed
Magnolia Network, Discovery Network’s collaboration with Chip and Joanna Gaines, announced it’s launch date has been delayed due to coronavirus related concerns. The former HGTV stars’ new network was originally slated to launch October 4, but that date has been postponed over production shutdowns. To ease the blow on their devout fans, the Fixer Upper couple announced…