The top subscription streamers are set to more than double the number of available pricing tiers in 2024, introducing options that include access to premium content, yearly contracts, bundles, and more, according to Deloitte’s annual TMT (technology, media, and telecom) predictions for next year. “Will there be the right option for everyone, will it help the streamers grow, and will it reduce churn? Or will it be like a restaurant with a 15-page menu … so many choices that consumers can’t make up their minds?” the firm asks in its study.
The new media rights deal is worth $7.7 billion when the previously announced $1.1 billion agreement with The CW is included. NASCAR did not reveal monetary figures at the news conference held at the Music City Center one day before its season-ending awards ceremony.
Services should compete for certain high-value subscribers, even if they’re likely to drop out eventually, Magid says.
Fox Weather, Fox News Media’s free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) weather service has expanded its distribution to include Dish Network and Sling Freestream subscribers effective today. In making the announcement […]
The National Hockey League and sports streaming provider ViewLift have relaunched NHL, free apps available across a range of device platforms that allow hockey fans to create a customized feed of the […]
Comcast, Charter, Altice USA, Dish, Verizon Fios shed 1.16 million subscribers in Q3, while streamers Hulu + Live TV, Sling TV and Fubo added 727,000.
For the first time since June, Suits did not manage to surpass 1 billion minutes viewed during the week of October 23-29. With 997 million minutes viewed, the USA Network legal drama came in second on Nielsen’s streaming charts during this interval. This brings to an end its 18-week streak of reaching over 1 billion minutes, which, while impressive, is actually not the record holder. Audiences also took some time to commemorate the life of Matthew Perry, following the actor’s sudden death on Oct. 28. In just the few hours until this interval closed, Friends tallied 583M minutes viewed, pushing it to No. 7 on the acquired titles list.
Fubo is bringing AI-powered streaming music audio-only channels to its virtual MVPD service with the help of partner Super Hi-Fi. Fubo on Tuesday announced the launch of 10 fully branded free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) channel radio stations, collectively dubbed “Fubo Radio,” on its sports-centric live TV streaming platform in the U.S.
Paramount Streaming has elevated the top programming executives at flagship platform Paramount+ and free, ad-supported service Pluto TV. Jeff Grossman, most recently EVP, content & business operations, Paramount Streaming for Paramount+, has been named EVP, Programming, Paramount+. Amy Kuessner, most recently Pluto TV’s EVP, content strategy and global partnerships, has been named EVP, programming, Pluto TV. Both report to Tom Ryan, president-CEO, Paramount Streaming, and will closely collaborate in their new roles.
At a time when competition between streaming and broadcasting often drives a wedge between networks and their affiliates, the year-old NBC News Daily appears to be an unusual example of cooperation. The one-hour newscast, designed to replace the long-running soap opera Days of Our Lives when it moved from NBC to Peacock in 2022, appears on both the NBC News Now streaming channel and all of NBC’s affiliates and ratings are rising.
Allen Media Group’s free streaming service for local news, weather, sports, traffic, and entertainment in America – Local Now – said today it’s adding the Time FAST channel. The Time FAST channel, powered by Time’s premium digital […]
Cox Media Group (CMG) today announced that its newly launched local streaming channel Neighborhood TV will be available on Xumo Play beginning Dec. 1. Neighborhood TV (NTV), which formally launched in August 2023, is a free […]
He will oversee the company’s strategy to make Tennis Channel’s television network available directly to customers via a new streaming platform, planned for 2024.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Sunday’s airing of the late afternoon games on the NFL RedZone Channel literally went code red. The broadcast was interrupted Sunday when a fire alarm went […]
As First Black Friday Game Nears Kickoff, Prime Video And NFL Eye New Postprandial Pigskin Tradition
Prime Video executives aren’t prepared to guarantee a ratings bonanza with the first NFL game on Black Friday. They mainly hope it succeeds in seeding a new annual pop culture event on the day after Thanksgiving. “We’ll see how it goes, but our expectation and the NFL’s expectation is that this becomes an annual tradition,” said Jay Marine, VP of Prime Video and global head of sports, during a media conference call.
Competition series Squid Game: The Challenge has debuted on Netflix. Based on the hit drama from 2021, it sees 456 players enter and try to win $4.56 million. Five episodes are available Nov. 22. Four more come out Nov. 29, and the season finale premieres Dec. 6.
Equalpride and ABC Owned Television Stations announced the distribution of the Out100 Special this holiday season, beginning Friday, Nov. 24. As part of the close collaboration between the two brands, the ABC […]
The race, which began at 1 a.m. ET, attracted 1.3 million viewers, the third-largest F1 audience of the season on cable and sixth-largest overall on ESPN platforms this season.
NCIS: Sydney made its debut on Nov. 14 and, since then, it has amassed nearly 10 million total viewers across CBS and Paramount+. That’s nearly double the live + same-day audience that the episode managed. Based on three days of viewing, NCIS: Sydney is also the most-streamed CBS network premiere ever on Paramount+, according to Paramount Global.
Amazon Prime Video plans to carry the first “Black Friday” game later this week, serving Americans touchdowns and online shopping as an alternative to battling deal-seekers at the mall. The technology giant plans to load up the game with sales promotions in a bid to turn the Friday after Thanksgiving into a major digital shopping day.
Former Apple and AMC PR exec Bernadette Simpao has joined NBCUniversal‘s Media Group as SVP of strategic communications, where she will have a specific focus on streamer Peacock. Simpao, who is based in New York, will report to Allison Rawlings, NBCU Media Group EVP of communications.
Max is offering an early holiday gift for new subscribers — and making an aggressive move to bump its fourth-quarter numbers amid the streaming wars. Starting Monday, Max is launching a Black Friday sale slashing its rates 70% for its ad-supported plan to just $2.99 a month for six months. The offer is open to new and returning subscribers (but not current ones). The regular premium plan (without ads) is the usual price ($15.99). The sale is available through Monday, Nov. 27.
The latest entrée from the public TV pantry is now available to stream on Freevee, Plex and Roku.
WDIV Detroit Launches Newscast With 15-Minute, Commercial-Free Investigation
How WDIV Detroit’s investigation into an underwater oil pipeline became a broadcasting and digital event is the result of quality content delivered where people want to be served.
Netflix has started running promos prominently on the platform in the U.S. that Young Sheldon will be “coming soon.” The first five seasons of the popular Warner Bros. TV comedy series, which is set to end its run on CBS with the upcoming seventh season, will start streaming on Netflix in the US starting Nov. 24. In the U.S., the Big Bang Theory spinoff had been streaming on Warner Bros. TV sibling Max which landed the exclusive streaming rights in 2020 having also secured exclusively the mothership series. Max had been billed as the U.S. streaming home of the Big Bang Theory franchise that also includes a new spinoff in development as a Max original.
FAST channels are streaming’s shiny new object, but in reality, TV stations have been in the FAST business for a very long time. Now, as then, the quality of content makes all the difference.
Amy Lehman was promoted to senior VP of ad platforms at the Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology unit. Disney also said that Ajay Arora is getting added responsibilities as SVP of commerce, growth and identity. He had been senior VP of product, commerce and experimentation.
Holiday favorites like A Charlie Brown Christmas and A Christmas Story will soon return, along with new family friendly films including Dashing Through the Snow on Disney+, Melissa McCarthy’s Genie on Peacock and much, much more.
In its second showing on the Nielsen Streaming Top 10, The Fall of the House of Usher is already setting a strong show as it becomes the only title to consistently outperform Suits on the overall chart in back-to-back weeks since its Netflix debut. During the viewing window, the Edgar Allen Poe-inspired series raked in an additional 1.5 billion minutes viewed during its first full week of availability, pushing it to No. 1 again with a 19% jump from its opening figure of 1.2 billion minutes.
Taylor Sheridan‘s Paramount Network megahit will resume production on its final episodes in the late spring of 2024. Yellowstone, earlier this month, had set a premiere date of November 2024 for the second half of its fifth and final season, which last aired its midseason finale Jan. 6, 2023, and will usher in the end of the series.
Philo is launching an advertising campaign today highlighting the streaming service’s wide array of programming in popular genres such as holiday films and true crime. The spot’s tagline is “Philo. Your home for the holiday.”
Portia Bruner, a former anchor at Fox-owned WAGA Atlanta, is in the second season of an eponymous talk show also getting national carriage on Fox Soul. National syndication is next in her sights. A full transcript of the conversation is included.
FreeWheel, a global technology platform for the television advertising industry, today announced that it has officially certified Transmit, a market leading technology platform that maximizes the revenue of streamed content, as […]
The new contract will provide featured group coverage at eight LPGA Tour events live and exclusively on ESPN+ through the 2025 season.