HBO Max, Discovery+ Services To Merge Starting Next Year
The HBO Max and Discovery+ premium streaming services will be combined into a new subscription video service beginning in the U.S. next summer before rolling out to other regions in 2024 and 2025, Warner Bros. Discovery revealed in its second quarter financial statement Thursday. Company…
TCL Reports 10.15M Global Smart TV Shipments Over The First Half Of 2022
TCL Electronics recently issued its 2022 first half business update showing global smart TV unit shipments reached 10.15 million sets, spurred by an 8.9% Q2-2022 uptick over the first quarter of the year. For perspective, in January the company reported sales of 23.58 million smart…
Sony TV Shipments Fell, As Sales Dollars Increased In Its Fiscal 2021
Sony’s Entertainment Technology & Services business segment saw its global unit shipments of TV sets decline -8.6% from 9.3 million in the company’s fiscal year ended March 31, 2020 to 8.5 million in FY 2021, according to the company’s supplemental financial reporting. However, the benefit…
Dish Reports Continued Satellite TV Subscriber Churn As 5G Ramps Up
The cord-cutting woes continued for Dish Network in the first quarter of the year, according to the satellite and live-streaming company’s latest financial report Friday. Dish Network showed a loss of 462,000 pay-TV accounts in the first quarter of the year, compared to a loss…
Netflix’ Hastings Mulls Offering Lower Priced Tier As Sub Count Drops
Neflix CEO Reed Hastings made some interesting disclosures Tuesday in the company’s Q1 financial reporting, including a loss of 200,000 net subscribers, addressed by some moves to support profitability. With the Q1 subscriber drop-off, the company said its current worldwide subscriber count now stands at…
Satellite TV Subscriber Attrition Continued In DISH Q4 Results
The traditional satellite TV business continued to suffer subscriber attrition in the fourth quarter of 2021, following the release of financial results from DISH Network Thursday. The direct-to-home satellite TV and over-the-top streaming services resource ended 2021 with 10.71 million total subscribers, including 8.22 million…
Report: Roku Studying Possibility Of Making Its Own Roku TVs
Roku reportedly has conducted focus group studies exploring the possibility of manufacturing and marketing Roku TVs under its own brand. According to a Business Insider story this week citing only an individual “familiar” with the activity, Roku has allegedly started conducting focus groups this month…
Disney+ Continued To Rack Up Subscribers In Q4-2021
The Walt Disney Co. reported robust revenue and subscriber growth from its streaming services over the fourth quarter of 2021, including continued strong subscriber growth for the Disney+ app. Disney reported subscription video on demand (SVoD) streaming service subscriptions across its portfolio totaled 196.4 million,…
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