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NEW YORK CITY, New York – With Verizon becoming the exclusive wireless carrier of Disney+ came the announcement that all customers currently subscribed to an unlimited plan will be given access to a full free year of Disney+ premium access....

SAN BRUNO, Calif. - YouTube TV sets price hike for customers who have Showtime included in their subscription plans. YouTube TV has already started sending notifications and contacting their subscribers to inform them of the price increase for their plans...

ENGLEWOOD, Col. - Dish plans to build a 5G broadband network, which, when succeeded, would be the first standalone 5G broadband network in the US. In line with their plans, the Dish network already announced that they would soon release...

DALLAS, Tex. - AT&T’s TV Now streaming service is yet again aiming for a price hike, AT&T already confirmed the news. AT&T TV Now has recently increased the price of some of their older and now grandfathered services. Now, they...

DALLAS, Tex. - AT&T released two new packages early this year, plus, significantly hiked the price for their grandfathered packages. And now, AT&T TV raises price for their older customers once again. A statement from a spokesperson said that AT&T...

LOS GATOS, Calif. - Roku is set to expand its Roku Voice Commands Support requirements as well as voice commands from Google Assistant and Alexa to more channels. Roku has already instructed its developers that more channels in their streaming...

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Finally, the free streaming service Locast brings free TV in Atlanta and Phoenix, after its launch in January last year in New York and has expanded to more places from there. From the statement announced by...

LOS GATOS, Calif. - For the first time, Netflix acknowledges that Disney is a great competitor, after glib comments when asked about Netflix's competitions before. Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, has been a smooth-talker some time ago when asked about...

CUPERTINO, Calif. - Apple reportedly told the Apple TV+ service creators to steer clear from portraying China in a bad light, to prevent any possible backlash. After the highly-publicized issue that happened between the iPhone maker and the Chinese government...

LOS GATOS, Calif. - Multiple older streaming devices are set to end Netflix support starting in December 2019, including some models of Roku devices and older versions of Smart TVs. It was first reported earlier in October that several of...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - TiVo Plus launches today, the new ad-supported streaming service today by TiVo, and the company’s answer to the Roku Channel. Earlier in the month, TiVo has already released two new models of the TiVo Edge, their...

LOS GATOS, Calif. - Roku device owners can conveniently add the Apple TV app on Roku as of today to their list of services. Apple TV Plus is set for release next month. But at the moment, Apple is already...

It is all systems go for Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEEL) as it is prepared to launch its new TV channel, Zee Keralam. The pay TV market in the India’s state of Kerala is profuse with cutthroat competition, with the...

The relentless expansion of the subscription video-on-demand (SVoD) industry worldwide shows its undeniable influence as an international business in the coming years. This sector’s market dynamics are explained by the latest report entitled, "2018 to 2025 Subscription Video-on-Demand (SVoD) Report...

Sports TV channel, ESPN, has lost its grip of roughly two million US-based customers over the past 12 months. This development is based on the newly released yearly report of The Walt Disney Company, ESPN's parent organization. For the 2018...

Apple is reported to be thinking about introducing an affordable streaming adapter. The TV dongle is the same device like the Google Chromecast stick, the Amazon Fire TV stick, and the Roku streaming stick. The low-cost gadget is reported to...

Mindful of the successes of subscription video-on-demand (SVoD) giants like Amazon Prime Video and Netflix, Barclays Corporate Banking is responding to the rapid evolution of the TV production realm. In an effort to aid British TV producers in content-making for...

To heighten the convenient engagement of video streaming enthusiasts, Netflix has launched new features on its video streaming application, particularly on devices manufactured by Apple. The subscription video-on-demand (SVoD) company has introduced the newest version of its iOS application. This...

Amazon Prime Video is pushing forward in bolstering its content lineup. Its creative arm, Amazon Studios, has signed a first-look TV contract with Animal Pictures' Natasha Lyonne and Maya Rudolph. The Emmy Award-nominee creative partners will make original series for...

Univision is expected to be recognized as the leading Spanish-language TV channel for the 25th (of 27) time this November. This puts the free-to-air TV network alongside mainstream TV channels like FOX, ABC, NBC, and CBS among the five leading...

Detractors cannot stop Nine Entertainment on its venture to acquire stakes of Fairfax Media. Without opposition, the directors of Fairfax Media have recommended the voting in favor of the Fairfax Media-Nine Entertainment merger. Critics who do not support the deal...

Australia's pay-TV firm, Foxtel, is giving a special offer starting this month in collaboration with The Mercury, the largest, Tasmania-based, circulating daily newspaper. The promotional offering is exclusive for readers of the newspaper who are subscribers of a six-month plan....

Plex is offering its users a once-in-a-lifetime discount on its media library streaming service. Users who avail the service, free of charge, is enticed to take advantage of the rare 25-percent markdown offer on its lifetime Plex Pass. Interested customers...

Apple announced on Thursday that it would start creating independent, feature-length movies with the premier studio, A24. A multi-year agreement has been inked by the Apple X manufacturer and the New York City-based entertainment firm. The world's most valuable company,...

Netflix chief executive officer Reed Hastings recently revealed that the subscription video-on-demand service is thinking of testing an affordable subscription plan in some countries in Asia. The company has decided sooner about this plan of offering its streaming products inexpensively....

Mubi founder Efe Çakarel does not intend to compete with streaming service giant, Netflix. The subscription video-on-demand (SVoD) head wants to be different. He said that Mubi had been serving cinephiles since 2007. Çakarel remarked that his firm has started...

As video streaming continues to be well-received by today's digitally savvy entertainment consumers, subscription video-on-demand (SVoD) services continue to fiercely compete with one another. Texas-based market research firm, Parks Associates, recently computed the streaming service providers. They substantiated that there...

The pay TV sector continues to grapple with declining subscription rates. This is the conclusion of the US Multi-Channel Subscription report for the third quarter of this year. The information was compiled by Kagan, a media research panel within the...

Netflix has inked a multi-year overall partnership with "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" executive producer Marti Noxon. Under the contract, the Emmy Award-nominated director, producer, and creative writer will make a new series of shows exclusively for the streaming giant. Furthermore,...

Leaders of over-the-top (OTT) industry companies in India are disputing the government regulation of digital entertainment content. In light of the surging demand in cloud-based entertainment, these private firms believe that such type of monitoring may hamper the consumers' rights...