The former Apple and Hulu Executive is tapped to lead the new joint venture from Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery.
Startup Netskrt says its fringe delivery networks could help broaden access to live sports streaming.
Bitmovin, a provider of video streaming infrastructure, today announces its partnership with Yospace, a dynamic ad insertion expert. The partnership will deliver a joint solution for live streaming, at scale, […]
With shows like Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building showing up on Disney’s ABC, legacy media companies are finding that exposure on TV networks can help expand the audience for their streaming series — and avoid leaving money on the table.
Pronology, a developer of broadcast workflow solutions, will introduce its latest updates to StreamFile Core at NAB Show in Las Vegas (April 14-17), Booth SU3058, including 2110 support and a […]
Two Amazon Prime Video users claim the company violated a federal video privacy law by allegedly sharing information about their online video viewing with other Amazon-affiliated companies, and with outside businesses. In a class-action complaint, Virginia resident Meredith Beagle and Louisiana resident Jordan Guerrero allege that Amazon Services regularly discloses personally identifiable information to its parent company, Amazon Inc., “for audience measurement purposes, marketing purposes, market research purposes, advertising purposes, and other data collection and analysis purposes.”
A new sports-based pay TV service formed by Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery could represent a new revenue stream for TV stations allowed to participate as content providers. “We have confirmation from [Fox] and Disney that this will operate like a virtual multichannel video programming distributor (vMVPD) – which is to say that our Fox affiliates and our ABC affiliates will have the opportunity to opt-in and both be carried and get paid,” said Nexstar President-COO Michael Biard on Tuesday. “If that happens and they target cord-nevers and they get the thing off the ground – and all those things happen – then we welcome it.”
After eight and a half years as SVP drama series at HBO, Nora Skinner is going to Netflix where she will be VP in the streamer’s drama series team. Based at Netflix’s Los Angeles headquarters, Skinner, a former film producer and executive, will start at the end of May, reporting to Jinny Howe, Netflix’s VP of drama series.
In some cases, hackers purchased streaming subscriptions with the compromised logins.
Fox Nation, Fox News Media’s subscription-based streaming service, has expanded distribution to Dish TV and Sling TV. President Lauren Petterson said: “We’re thrilled to partner with Dish and Sling to […]
By embracing live sports and blending its creator content and TV offerings, the platform is revolutionizing the beleaguered pay TV space.
BT Group and Broadpeak, a provider of content delivery network (CDN) and video streaming solutions for content providers and pay-TV operators worldwide, announced today that they are teaming up on […]
Stingray, a provider of music and video content distribution, business services and advertising solutions, has launched new channels on Samsung TV Plus, Samsung’s 100% free ad-supported streaming TV and video-on-demand […]
The first 19 seasons of ABC’s venerable medical drama Grey’s Anatomy, all 420 episodes, are now available on Hulu ahead of the Season 20 premiere on ABC.
WWE, a sports entertainment company that is part of TKO Group, is also among the top 10 most subscribed YouTube channels globally, with no professional sports leagues currently in that mix. Others in the top 10 include Indian record label and film production company T-Series, Sony Entertainment Television and social media personalities MrBeast and PewDiePie.
The week of the Super Bowl was a relatively light one for streaming in the United States — but that allowed a couple of shows to score solid positions in the top 10 despite relatively modest viewing times. Netflix’s romance One Day, which premiered Feb. 8, was one of them — finishing fifth among original shows despite only gathering 296 million minutes of viewing in the U.S. for the week of Feb. 5-11. In the previous five weeks, the show in that slot had averaged 555 million minutes of watch time. Paramount+’s Halo also made its first appearance in the top 10, finishing fourth among originals with 354 million minutes as it opened its second season.
A mix of live sports, original sports programming and ancillary sports content will start appearing on TruTV next Monday, March 11, under the banner TNT Sports on TruTV. The block will start at 6 p.m. ET and run through latenight. The NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship, aka March Madness, gets under way the following week. WBD, which shares in March Madness rights with Paramount, often makes use of TruTV as a home for early-round tournament games.
Charter Communications and the Walt Disney Co. today announced ESPN+ is now available to Spectrum TV Select Plus customers at no additional cost, as the two companies’ distribution agreement from […]
Netflix faced a formidable challenge to its streaming dominance during the streaming wars. But the company has bounced back in a big way with its stock up nearly 90% in the last year.
The event and publishing executive says she’s next looking for “a new opportunity with a global scope.”
In the span of a decade, Netflix has helped decimate linear TV, not only gobbling up series that once would have anchored a network lineup but also taking discarded network series — from You to Manifest— and making them hits. That’s left traditional TV clinging to live sports like a life raft: 98 of last year’s top-100 broadcasts were sports (overwhelmingly, NFL). Now Netflix appears to be coming for them, too.
Tubi, Fox’s ad supported streaming service, named veteran ad sales executive Jeff Lucas as chief revenue officer. Lucas replaces Mark Rotblat, who had been CRO since 2018. Rotblat will be focusing on AdRise, another unit in Fox’s Tubi Media Group, a Tubi spokesperson said. AdRise is a large-scale video advertising network that incorporates all of Fox’s video inventory from Tubi, Fox Sports, Fox Entertainment, Fox News Media and Fox Television Stations.
Warner Bros. Discovery’s Max will join competitors Netflix and Disney+ in cracking down on password sharing. JB Perrette, WBD’s CEO and president of global streaming and games, said the initiative would launch later this year with a broader rollout in 2025.
The forthcoming sports streaming venture backed by Disney, Fox Corp. and Warner Bros. Discovery will reach 5 million subscribers in its first five years, according to a projection shared Monday by Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch. Speaking at a conference hosted by Morgan Stanley, Murdoch cited the forecast in responding to questions about whether the new venture would threaten the company’s existing pay-TV business.
The Law & Order and FBI megaproducer is behind a pair of series, Homicide: New York and Homicide: Los Angeles, at the streamer.
Cox Media Group and Action News Jax today launched Action Sports Jax 24/7, the first streaming sports channel of its kind in the market. Action Sports Jax 24/7 debuted on Action News […]
While the rate of cord cutting predictably continued to accelerate for most operators, Charter became the top dog … and Google seriously started to take over the linear bundling business.
“This is a very important process. We are sticking to our principles, to our guns,” David Gandler told analysts Friday.
Mometu, a free video-on-demand and live TV streaming service, has partnered with OTTera, a leader in FAST linear and OTT application solutions, to enhance its streaming offer. The partnership, the […]
The tech firm faces increasing competition on the streaming advertising side, as Netflix and Disney grow ad tiers and Pluto and Tubi offer free services, and may get a new rival on the smart TV-manufacturer front.
DirecTV, long known as a satellite company, is launching a new ad campaign that says dishes are for the birds and that they should be streaming their TV. A new commercial entitled The Good Stuff features two pigeons on a rooftop who are surprised to notice a household watching “the good stuff” on DirecTV without a dish. The voices of the pigeons – Bobby and Frank – are supplied by Steve Buscemi and Henry Winkler.
Top station group executives see deeper fragmentation and more strain on the network-affiliate relationship as upshots of a new joint venture sports streaming service announced earlier this month by Fox Corp., Warner Bros. Discovery and Disney. This story is available to TVNewsCheck Plus subscribers only. Become a subscriber here.
New Sports Joint Venture Is Too Small
Ted Hearn: The joint venture formed this week by Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery promises a massive slate of sports programming ripped from the traditional cable bundle yet deeply discounted from the roughly $200 or so that many pay each month to cable TV giants like Comcast and Charter. the Disney-Fox-WBD venture has a clear defect: It is too small. The market capitalization of the three JV partners is $238 billion combined. Netflix alone is worth $432 billion. Toss in Amazon/Prime at $1.8 trillion, Google/YouTube $1.85 trillion, and Apple/Apple TV at $2.9 trillion and it seems obvious that the streaming world eventually belongs to Big Tech absent a massive rival.
The NFL isn’t just the most popular sports league in the U.S., it’s also the most valuable with the highest-rated programming and the priciest ad time. In 2021 the league signed an estimated $110 billion worth of media deals covering 11 years, which reportedly was nearly double the value of its previous contracts. With tech giants Alphabet and Amazon, along with NBCUniversal’s Peacock, snapping up digital rights to NFL games, and with the announcement this week that Disney’s ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery are launching a streaming service tailored to sports fans, it’s clear that streaming is poised to be the NFL’s next frontier, despite some backlash from fans.
Local broadcast station groups plummeted in value this week after Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Fox announced they will be launching a new joint venture focused on sports fans. However, according to EW Scripps CEO Adam Symson, says Wall Street is overestimating the new product’s popularity, saying investors appear to be pricing in that local ABC and Fox affiliates wouldn’t be part of the new skinnier bundle. They will be included, he said, citing assurances he’s been given in conversations with Disney executives. “Affiliates are going to be compensated for being carried along,” Symson said.