HBO Max To Launch May 27th With Loaded Lineup
WarnerMedia formally announced Tuesday that its new premium subscription movie service HBO Max will launch on May 27th for $15 per month. Subscribers will have access to more than 10,000 hours of content from the vast Warner Bros., New Line and and HBO catalogs along…
Charter Subscribers To Get Special Access To New HBO MAX Service
The next major new streaming service–WarnerMedia’s HBO Max making its debut next month –is expanding its free offering to certain cable TV loyalists subscribed to Charter Communications. Under this week’s announced offer, Charter’s existing HBO subscribers, including subscribers taking its Spectrum Silver and Gold video…
Fox To Acquire Tubi TV Amidst Surge In Direct Streaming Use
In the throes of the sweeping Coronavirus pandemic, business activity is speeding up in the digital subscription video on demand (SVoD) and advertised video on demand (AVOD) spaces. Earlier this week Disney, following announcements that it was closing its theme parks temporarily to weather the…
Report: U.S. Pay-TV Services Lost 4.9M Subscribers In 2019
The cord-cutting revolution saw a veritable blood bath for traditional pay-TV services over the course of 2019, as an estimated 4.915 million customers dropped their providers, according to data released this week by the Leichtman Research Group. The year-end U.S. pay-TV market research report from…
LRG: Percentage Of Pay-TV Homes Drops To 75%
The percentage of TV households that still subscribe to some form of pay-TV (cable, satellite, telco, or internet delivered) has declined to 75% nationwide from 87% in 2009, according to a new study published this week by the Leichtman Research Group (LRG). For the pleasure…
Nielsen: U.S. TV Homes Top 120.6 Million For 2019-20
There are 120.6 million TV households in the United States for the upcoming 2019-2020 season, according to final estimates recently released by media measurement firm Nielsen. The firm’s National Television Household Universe Estimates indicated a small bump up in the number of homes with televisions…
Media Titans Square Off With Streaming Services
The over-the-top streaming space got a lot more interesting this week with further announcements of plans for forthcoming and newly launched streaming services that have their sights set on rival Netflix’s crown for digital market supremacy. Among the recent streaming news makers were Apple which…
Study: Cord Cutting To Climb 19.2% By The End Of 2019
The rate by which traditional U.S. pay-TV subscribers are cutting the cord in favor of more price friendly over-the-air and over-the-top programming distribution alternatives is ratcheting up in a big way. A report released Tuesday by research firm eMarketer forecasts the cord-cutting trend will climb…
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