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Sling TV Lost 198,000 Subs in the First Three Months of 2025 0

Sling TV Lost 198,000 Subs in the First Three Months of 2025

Satellite TV operator Echostar Corp.’s pioneering vMVPD distributor Sling TV lost 198,000 subscribers in the first fiscal quarter, ended March 31. That was up 47% from a loss of 138,000 subs in the previous-year period. Sling, which pioneered the online TV platform market in 2015 when it was the first service to offer standalone streaming … Continue reading “Sling TV Lost 198,000 Subs in the First Three Months of 2025”

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Samba TV: ‘Last of Us’ Tops Weekly Streaming Viewership Through May 4 0

Samba TV: ‘Last of Us’ Tops Weekly Streaming Viewership Through May 4

Season two of HBO’s “The Last of Us” on Max remained No. 1 on Samba TV’s list of top streaming programs for the week of April 28 to May 4. Based on the popular video game series of the same name, the series depicts a post-apocalyptic world 20 years into a pandemic caused by a … Continue reading “Samba TV: ‘Last of Us’ Tops Weekly Streaming Viewership Through May 4”

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Lionsgate Reinstates Mask Policy in Santa Monica HQ as COVID Cases Rise in LA 0

Lionsgate Reinstates Mask Policy in Santa Monica HQ as COVID Cases Rise in LA

Lionsgate has quietly reinstated a mask policy for employees at its Santa Monica, Calif.-based headquarters following a resurgence of COVID-19 cases in Los Angeles. The mandate, first reported by Deadline, … Continue reading “Lionsgate Reinstates Mask Policy in Santa Monica HQ as COVID Cases Rise in LA”

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New Home Entertainment Releases for Aug. 22 Include ‘The Blackening,’ ‘You Hurt My Feelings’ 0

New Home Entertainment Releases for Aug. 22 Include ‘The Blackening,’ ‘You Hurt My Feelings’

Among the new home entertainment offerings of Aug. 22 are The Blackening and You Hurt My Feelings on Blu-ray and DVD. Lionsgate will release the comedic horror flick The Blackening on … Continue reading “New Home Entertainment Releases for Aug. 22 Include ‘The Blackening,’ ‘You Hurt My Feelings’”

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Doc ‘Unknown Beauty: Francois Nars’ Due on EST and VOD Sept. 12 0

Doc ‘Unknown Beauty: Francois Nars’ Due on EST and VOD Sept. 12

Virgil Films will release the documentary Unknown Beauty: François Nars on EST (digital purchase) and VOD (digital rental) Sept. 12. Celebrated photographer and makeup artist François Nars reveals his striking … Continue reading “Doc ‘Unknown Beauty: Francois Nars’ Due on EST and VOD Sept. 12”

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Theatrical Comeback Gives Digital Transactional Home Entertainment Business a Q2 Bump 0

Theatrical Comeback Gives Digital Transactional Home Entertainment Business a Q2 Bump

The theatrical resurgence is paying off for the transactional home entertainment business, at least in the digital segment. Consumer spending on digital movie sales, or electronic sellthrough (EST), rose 17.4% … Continue reading “Theatrical Comeback Gives Digital Transactional Home Entertainment Business a Q2 Bump”

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Theatrical Comeback Gives Transactional Home Entertainment Business a Q2 Bump 0

Theatrical Comeback Gives Transactional Home Entertainment Business a Q2 Bump

The theatrical resurgence is paying off for the transactional home entertainment business, at least in the digital segment. Consumer spending on digital movie sales, or electronic sellthrough (EST), rose 17.4% … Continue reading “Theatrical Comeback Gives Transactional Home Entertainment Business a Q2 Bump”

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Pixar’s ‘Elemental’ Debuts Atop Weekly Vudu Chart 0

Pixar’s ‘Elemental’ Debuts Atop Weekly Vudu Chart

Disney/Pixar’s animated Elemental debuted atop the chart of the 10 most-popular films on Fandango’s transactional digital service Vudu the week ended Aug. 20. Available for digital purchase starting Aug. 15, the film … Continue reading “Pixar’s ‘Elemental’ Debuts Atop Weekly Vudu Chart”

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Fox Weather AVOD Service Expands Distribution on Samsung TV Plus, Cox Platforms 0

Fox Weather AVOD Service Expands Distribution on Samsung TV Plus, Cox Platforms

Fox Weather, Fox News Media’s free, ad-supported streaming television (FAST) weather service, has further expanded its distribution to reach Samsung TV Plus users and Cox subscribers. Starting Aug. 23, Fox … Continue reading “Fox Weather AVOD Service Expands Distribution on Samsung TV Plus, Cox Platforms”

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ESPN+, Discovery+ Live-Streaming U.S. Open Tennis Tournament Domestically — and Abroad 0

ESPN+, Discovery+ Live-Streaming U.S. Open Tennis Tournament Domestically — and Abroad

Streaming platforms ESPN+ and Discovery+ are set to begin live-streaming the biggest professional tennis tournament in the country, the U.S. Open, beginning Aug. 22, with qualifying action from Flushing Meadows, … Continue reading “ESPN+, Discovery+ Live-Streaming U.S. Open Tennis Tournament Domestically — and Abroad”

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