Tag: Disney
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Indiana Jones Movies Are Coming to Disney+ & Paramount+
Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy announced the Indiana Jones franchise will begin streaming on Disney+ and Paramount+ starting May 31st.
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Comcast is “Likely” to Sell Hulu to Disney
Earlier this month, Disney announced it intends to buy Comcast’s remaining shares of Hulu. Now, it appears Comcast is ready to sell its 33% stake.
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ESPN+ Hits New Subscriber Record in The 1st Quarter of 2023
Disney’s earning call earlier this week reported the streaming service increased from 25 million subscribers to 25.3 million.
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Hulu is Ending Support For Some Older Roku Players
Do you have an older Roku player, including the Roku 4? Well, you may soon lose access to the Hulu Roku channel. According to a message posted on Roku 4 on May 30th, 2023, Hulu will be ending support for older Roku players, including the Roku 4. This means if you want to keep watching…
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Hulu With Live TV Lost About 100,000 Subscribers in The 1st Three Months of 2023
Yesterday Disney reported their 2nd quarter 2023 earnings, and once again, another live TV service has lost subscribers. Hulu reported that it lost about 2% of its live TV subscribers as it now has 4.4 million subscribers, down from 4.5 million at the end of 2022. (Note: Disney reported the 1st three months of 2023…
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Disney is Going to Merge The Hulu & Disney+ Apps
Disney is striving to increase revenue by seizing a unique advertising opportunity through the development of a single app hosting all three services.
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Disney is Building a Free Streaming Service to Take on Pluto TV & Tubi – Here is How You Can Test it Now
Free ad-supported streaming services are one of the fastest-growing areas in cord cutting. FOX owns Tubi, Paramount owns Pluto TV, NBC Universal has Xumo Play, and Warner Bros. Discovery is launching a service called WBTV at some point in the future. That is just the free services owned by a major broadcast TV company. There…
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Disney Sues Florida Governor, Alleges Political Effort to Hurt Its Business
Disney says the governor is using his post to undertake a relentless campaign to weaponize government power.
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Disney Hits ABC & Freeform Employees With Another Wave of Layoffs… And This Time It’s Tidal
A second round of layoffs containing a large number of long-time Disney veterans was announced and it appears to be far from the last.
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ESPN Starts to Layoff 300 Staff Today & Announces More Layoffs Are Coming
Earlier today Disney-owned ESPN started to notify staff that layoff notices will be coming. This is part of Disney’s plan to cut 7,000 jobs across all areas of the company. Now ESPN says this week’s layoffs will only be the first and will include some onscreen talent also. These layoffs even include senior longtime ESPN…