With Apple’s Vision Pro set to launch on February 2, the company has started letting select journalists try it out (with much hand-holding) in hopes of eliciting rave reviews that will help drive sales of the $3,500 augmented and virtual reality device. Not since the launch of the iPhone has Apple made such a radical …
The seemingly simple and drama-free renewal of Paramount Global’s carriage deal with Comcast has raised some doubts that the landmark Charter-Disney deal in September really changed everything. Perhaps Charter’s tough approach was more the exception than the rule. After all, this is the first major deal signed since Charter and Disney slugged it out during …
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter Share on linkedin LinkedIn We have predicted for years that the bundle would reassemble itself within the streaming universe, and that has certainly been coming true as of late. Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav even urged the industry to work together to co-market and bundle competitive …
To say that reports of an imminent deal between actors and studios were greatly exaggerated is an understatement… would be an understatement. Talks that had reportedly been progressing nicely between the AMPTP and the Screen Actors Guild-AFTRA over the last several days didn’t just fade away this week. They blew up as the AMPTP walked …
The fact that the sudden deal this week between Charter and Disney came as a surprise even as “Monday Night Football” loomed tells us everything we need to know about the inhospitable state of the media industry right now. Like the 13 days that Kennedy and Khrushchev faced off over Cuba in 1962, the 10 …
The Hollywood strikes got real this week, although it’s unclear how the latest machinations between the Writers Guild of America and the AMPTP will ultimately affect what still seems like an intractable gulf. On the positive front, Tuesday brought a much needed sit-down between WGA negotiators and AMPTP President Carol Lombardini, who showed up with …
“I’m pleased with how much we’ve gotten done in such a short period of time, but I also know we have a lot more to do.” – Disney CEO Bob Iger It’s increasingly clear that Disney CEO Bob Iger is in transformation mode. And the calmer, gentler Bob is giving way to the new Bob …
With the Upfronts and Newfronts now in the rearview mirror, the buzz is that brands and agencies are leaving more dollars in their coffers to play the scatter market amid a fast-changing media landscape. That makes perfect sense. And it’s also potentially good news for the connected TV marketplace, whose primary octane is programmatic buying …
The idea that HBO would license out high-profile, prestige originals to a competitor like Netflix would have been laughable only three years ago. Today, the idea makes some sense considering Warner Bros. Discovery’s mission to monetize as much library content as possible to shed merger debt and find at least $4.5 billion in synergies. This …
With fewer industry gatherings these days, we tend to pack as much discussion and debate into the ones that remain – and the StreamTV Show in Denver this week was no exception. Nearly 1,000 streaming execs, entrepreneurs, and business gurus converged on the Westin Westminster to try to derive order from an industry that seems …
