Tag: Disney
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As Cord Cutting Grows The Disney Channel Has Lost 72% of Its Average Audience
This week, The Information wrote an expansive story about Disney and Netflix as Disney gets ready to launch Disney+. What was maybe the most shocking news was that since 2014 the Disney Channel has lost 72% of its average audience. This is a huge decline for any company especially one that relies heavily on ad…
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Disney+ Announces Monsters Inc. Show for 2020
According to the Official Disney Fan Club, Disney+ has developed an animated series titled Monsters at Work, based on the Monsters Inc. movies. The series will take place 6 months after where Monsters, Inc. left off. In Monsters at Work, the factory is now using children’s laughter to power the city of Monstropolis. A new monster,…
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Disney Has Just 90 Days to Sell FOX’s Regional Sports Networks
As part of the deal to get Department of Justice approval for the Disney and Fox merger there was a requirement that the Fox Regional Sports Networks (RSNs) would be sold off. According to the deal, now that Disney has closed on the sale of most of 21st Century Fox they have just 90 days…
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Cord Cutting This Week #68 – The Cost of Cord Cutting, Disney Buys Hulu, Comcast’s Roku Like Streaming Player, & More
Join Cord Cutters News every Saturday as we take a look back at some of the biggest Cord Cutting Stories from the past week. Now, remember these are my opinions on them not an in-depth look at each story. If you would like to learn more about each story check out the links below. (Also let…
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Disney Now Has a Majority Ownership of Hulu
Earlier today Disney closed on their deal to buy most of FOX including their share of Hulu. This means for the first time Hulu will have a majority owner as Disney now owns 60% of Hulu. The other 40% of Hulu is currently owned by two companies with Comcast owning 30%, and AT&T owning 10%.…
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Disney Now Owns Most of FOX After Closing Its $71.3 Billion Deal
Early this morning a major change happened in the world of TV with the close of Disney’s deal to buy 21st Century Fox. Disney now owns 20th Century Fox movie and television studio, Fox’s 22 regional sports channels (that will soon be sold off), cable channels including FX and National Geographic, and Fox’s portfolio of international…
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Cord Cutting This Week 67 – AT&T’s DIRECTV NOW Mistake, Anti-Cord Cutting, Disney, Fox, & More
Join Cord Cutters News every Saturday as we take a look back at some of the biggest Cord Cutting Stories from the past week. Now, remember these are my opinions on them not an in-depth look at each story. If you would like to learn more about each story check out the links below. (Also let…
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Disney Plans to Close on Its Deal to Buy FOX on March 20th 2019
Today Disney announced that they expect to close on its deal to buy most of 21st Century Fox on March 2019. With this deal, Disney will get ownership of 20th Century Fox movie and television studio, Fox’s 22 regional sports channels, cable channels including FX and National Geographic, and Fox’s portfolio of international operations, including a fast-growing…
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Disney’s New Streaming Service Will Reportedly Include Every Disney Movie Ever Made
Later this year Disney will be launching a subscription streaming services according to Disney’s CEO Bob Iger during a company shareholder meeting according to Polygon. “The service, which I mentioned earlier is going to launch later in the year, is going to combine what we call library product, movies, and television, with a lot of…
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Disney Plans to Close on Its Deal to Buy FOX ‘Soon’
Today Disney’s CEO announced that they expect to close on its deal to buy most of 21st Century Fox “soon.” This comes from a report from Variety as CEO Bob Iger talked about the Fox and the upcoming Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge opening. With this deal, Disney will get ownership of 20th Century Fox movie and…