One of the biggest cable companies in the United States has a message for media companies: The traditional cable-TV model is broken, and it needs to be fixed or abandoned.Cable […]
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Back to news homeFalsehoods Follow Close Behind This Summer’s Natural Disasters
As natural disasters and extreme environmental conditions became more commonplace around the world this summer, scientists pointed repeatedly to a shared driver: climate change.Conspiracy theorists pointed to anything but.Some claimed […]
Warner Bros. Discovery to Add CNN Channel to Max Streaming Service
CNN is moving a step closer to its digital future.The cable news network will start a 24-hour streaming channel on Max beginning on Sept. 27, Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent […]
YouTube Improperly Used Targeted Ads on Children’s Videos, Watchdogs Say
After a research report last week found that YouTube’s advertising practices had the potential to undercut the privacy of children watching children’s videos, the company said it limited the collection […]
Can’t Hear the Dialogue in Your Streaming Show? You’re Not Alone.
“What did he just say?”Those are some of the most commonly uttered words in my home. No matter how much my wife and I crank up the TV volume, the […]
As Hollywood Strikes Roll On, Viewers Catch Up With a TV Glut
With Hollywood’s labor disputes grinding on, and virtually all production stopped, anxiety began creeping into Zain Habboo’s house in Chevy Chase, Md.She and her husband had recently finished the latest […]
For Disney, Streaming Losses and TV’s Decline Are a One-Two Punch
Robert A. Iger’s urgent need to overhaul Disney — to turn its streaming division into a profitable enterprise and pull back on its troubled traditional television business — came into […]
Hollywood Strike Leaves Influencers Sidelined and Confused
Deanna Giulietti is not in the actors’ union, but she turned down $28,000 last week because of its strike.Ms. Giulietti, a 29-year-old content creator with 1.8 million TikTok followers, had […]
Hollywood Strikes Mean Steady Diet of Reruns, Game Shows and Reality TV
Scripted television series premiering at a slower pace. The “New Releases” and “Just Added” banners on streaming services piling up with reality shows, documentaries and international fare. Ninety-minute episodes of […]
Searching for Someone to Deliver a Hollywood Ending
The 1954 Hollywood classic “On the Waterfront” ends with unionized longshoremen on a dock. They’re fed up and standing idle, staring at a bloodied Marlon Brando. All of a sudden, […]