SAN FRANCISCO, July 1, 2020 – Tubi (www.tubi.tv), a division of FOX Entertainment, today announced it will bring 30 seasons of cult phenomenon The Joy of Painting – featuring the dulcet tones of Bob Ross’ voice and tap-tapping of his two-inch brush – to its massive library on the Docurama Channel from Cinedigm (NASDAQ: CIDM)….
History repeats itself in mass media but not usually in the same exact place. I say this because the growth of most mass media industries follows a pattern. It starts like the Wild West, lots of little radio stations that eventually banded together as networks and became national because of the popularity of certain programming….
A report from Deadline says Warner Media has announced that it’s Turner stations will be dropped from fubo TV in the midst of a dispute of distribution. The loss of the networks will mean that the streaming service and cable replacement could be without TNT and TBS which will pull a number of NBA and MLB games…
I have said before that I don’t take the term streaming war seriously. Why because it equates companies that don’t have it together with established behemoths in the streaming world. Going in to the summer the talk was about the three big streaming services that are set to take on Netflix, Amazon and Hulu. Well…
YouTube TV will raise its prices again for the second year in a row bringing its cost to $64.99. The rise in prices is said to be tied to the addition of 15 new channels from ViacomCBS. But here is the thing. Those channels do not charge cable providers $1.00 per subscriber. So the cost…
