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Do you think Bob Iger plans to continue offering Baby TV, Disney Junior, Disney XD, Freeform, FXM, FXX, Nat Geo Wild and Nat Geo Mundo as channels in the future? I bet he doesn’t. When Iger recently mentioned that, “Disney is going to be “expansive” in its thinking about the traditional TV business, leaving the…
Well what happened to the Spectrum Disney standoff being a cannon event in the story of pay-tv? To say the hype did not live up to the final result would be a gross understatement. This was going to be it. Charter’s CEO Chris Winfrey was seriously talking about how TV was not profitable and that…
Good news. It’s not just you. A new report from the New York Times says that the dialogue in streamed content is more difficult to understand and it’s not simply a matter of an individual’s ability to hear otherwise. According to the NYT reporting about 50% of Americans — and the “majority” of young people…
It’s greed. That’s what people say every time something goes up in price. And sometimes it is true. Most companies charge as much for something as they think the market will allow and have to look at the diminishing returns of either charging too little vs the cost of providing the service or product or…
Two years ago, when industry types began talking about a Netflix password-sharing crackdown we started seeing various survey results saying that customers who use other’s passwords would not get their own accounts if they lost access to someone elses. For instance a little over a year ago, results from a survey by reviews.org showed that…