Streaming platforms and cable networks increased their share of TV viewers’ time in June, while broadcast networks shrunk some. Netflix remains the top streamer, taking up 7% of all TV viewing for the month. Those are the findings from Nielsen’s second monthly release of “The Gauge,” which tracks total usage of TV across all platforms. For June, cable retained the biggest share of viewers’ attention, taking up 40% of total TV usage across the full day, while streaming grabbed a 27% share of usage.
ViacomCBS and Charter said they have a new multi-year distribution agreement that includes carriage of ViacomCBS’s broadcast stations and cable networks, as well as a license to sell the ViacomCBS streaming services to Charter’s Spectrum customers. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. One of the reasons for merging Viacom with CBS was to give the company greater clout with distributor like Charter.
The couple known for restoring old homes and buildings into styles varying from industrial to farmhouse are making the transition to TV executives with Thursday’s launch of the first steps toward their Magnolia Network. It will feature dozens of hours of new unscripted content and archive shows.
Fox TV Stations said today it’s made a deal to integrate Fox Flx, its over-the-top advertising product, into the Strata buying platform operated by Comcast’s FreeWheel unit.
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Mika Brzezinski, Jonathan Capehart, Michael Beschloss, Nicolle Wallace have new projects in development as MSNBC’s Peacock channel rebrands itself, tied to the cable channel’s 25th anniversary.
Demand for adding subscription streaming services in the U.S. is slowing down, according to new data from Kantar. In the second quarter just 3.9% of U.S. homes took a new subscription to a streaming service, Kantar said, down from 12.9% a year ago. The drop was the largest since Kantar started measuring. Kantar says 74.6% of U.S. households now have an SVOD subscription.
Amazon and Sony Pictures TV have struck a deal that will bring an extensive catalog of legendary producer Norman Lear’s shows to the Amazon’s Prime Video and IMDb TV streaming services. The titles headed to the two platforms are Maude, All in the Family, The Jeffersons, 227, Good Times, the original One Day at a Time, Diff’rent Strokes, Sanford & Son and Sanford.
The nominations reinforced the rapid rise of streaming, with most of the top-nominated scripted shows on services that emerged in the past two years. In the top three categories — drama, comedy and limited series — broadcast networks scored only two nominations, for the NBC drama This Is Us and the ABC comedy Black-ish.
Roku has finished its upfront TV-video advertising market, posting rising “commitments” from marketers, two times that of the previous year, according to the company. For the entire 2021, MoffettNathanson Research projected Roku to have amassed $902 million in total advertising revenue — up from a $566 million estimate for 2020. Above, Roku original Chrissy’s Court.
The internet and cable provider is still trying to figure out the best way to compete in the streaming wars.
As of Aug. 13, the cost of a subscription will go to $7 a month, from $6, mirroring a recent uptick for Disney+. A full-year subscription will now run $70, up from $60.
ESPN struck a new 12-year deal with All-England Lawn Tennis Club that expands the company’s ability to show the iconic Wimbledon tennis championships to sports fans who may be gravitating to forms of video other than traditional TV. The new pact, which begins with the 2024 Championships and extends through 2035, calls for more matches to be shown on both ESPN’s Disney sibling ABC, as well as on ESPN Plus, its subscription broadband service.
Apple is interested in streaming rights for the National Football League’s Sunday Ticket package. Apple has had discussions with NFL executives, but the NFL is also speaking with TV networks and other tech firms as well.
Analyst Michael Nathanson of MoffettNathanson, working with measurement and analytics company has come up with what he called effective RPU, a number that takes into account promotions and discount offers through distributors and aggregators, as well as revenue on ad supported tiers. Bottom line, Nathanson said Netflix leads the industry in effective RPU at $14.88. He attributed Netflix’s strong RPU to its high percentage of direct-to-consumer relationships and the maturity of its business model.
Univision has entered into a multi-year deal to deploy the cloud native video editing platform Blackbird to drive large-scale video production efficiencies across its streaming and digital media operations. Blackbird was selected […]
More people are streaming their TV programming, but increasingly they are choosing ad supported services rather than opting to avoid commercials, according to a new survey. Piplsay found that 83% of consumers said they’re watching content on streaming platforms, with 31% watching a mix of paid and free services. It said 19% had an ad-free premium subscription, 18% had a paid ad-supported subscription and 14% used a free-ad supported service.
The companies said Tuesday that starting in 2022 all Universal films, including the new Jurassic World and Minions movies, will become available exclusively on Peacock no later than four months after their theatrical premieres. Both companies are subsidiaries of Comcast’s NBCUniversal.
Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy have reinvigorated a once-storied Hollywood institution. Now it needs to figure out its place in a streaming company.
STIRR, a free, ad-supported OTT streaming service owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, has expanded the content offerings on its STIRR City channels to include locally-produced news specials, beginning with Baltimore is […]
The new sites further the group’s mission of collaboration, defining common language and providing educational resources on technical topics.
The new streaming network offers big sports stars combined with nostalgic throwback content and original programming via Xumo in the U.S. and the Roku Channel in Canada along with YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
MediaKind has debuted MediaKind Engage, a new end-to-end direct-to-consumer (DTC) solution for video contribution, production, streaming, and audience engagement. The solution enables sports entities, broadcasters, and content owners to make […]
At $4.99 per month, the new subscription service features more than 50 streaming channels for a fourth quarter 2021 launch.
Locast delivers more than 45 local TV channels in the Columbus DMA, including WCMH, WSYX, WBNS, WTTE, PBS, PBS Kids, as well as DABL, Telemundo, Antenna, CourtTV, Movies, MeTV, TrueCrime, CW, Circle, Bounce, Quest, Laff, Comet, HSN, Grit, Charge! and more.
The Amazon-backed free-streaming service has landed library rights to the first two seasons of the series starring Nicholas Pinnock. Should those perform well, it could lead to a third-season renewal on the ad-supported platform.
