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On Tuesday, Apple announced that its TV+ streaming service will cost $4.99 per month and will debut on November 1.
It’s the return of the king (of Wakanda).
Months away from release, Disney’s live-action Mulan is facing political backlash.
Every Disney princess for the past 30 years has had Ariel’s face. Now Ariel has a new face.
A small number of companies will win the streaming “battle royale,” says former Amazon Studios strategist Matthew Ball. Amazon is “guaranteed” to be one of them, he says.
A Q&A with the ESPN boss, who took over Disney’s powerful network a year ago.
On the latest episode of Recode Media, former Amazon and Hulu employee Eugene Wei explains why Netflix and its competitors aren’t playing the same game.
Redef CEO Jason Hirschhorn watches a lot of TV and he says Netflix has sucked him into watching less of everything else.
The TV guys want to keep selling you TV you don’t watch. It won’t work.
The streaming company added 9.6 million subscribers last quarter — and it says it isn’t worried about Apple or Disney.
Bob Iger in 2015: “We look at Netflix as more friend than foe.” Now it’s a very expensive war.
Diller, the former CEO of Paramount and Fox, talks about the diminished power of movie studios and why “Netflix has won this game” on the latest Recode Decode.
Fortunately for the streaming giant, its own shows are popular too.
Skipper’s new goal is to make watching sports online a big business, starting in the U.S. with boxing.
That number will surprise some people, like the person typing up this article.
“I’m not saying that those companies are per se legal or every activity is legal. They could very well be violating the antitrust laws down the road if they take certain actions.”
AT&T is buying everything. Comcast and Disney are going nuts over Fox. But what if the other buyers don’t show up?
If regulators insist. Which might not be a terrible thing.
Comcast’s new $65 billion bid for some of 21st Century Fox will force Disney to raise its own bid.
“You look at all of this crazy stuff in the news industry, news and entertainment industry, but I mean, it looks like nobody can keep their pants on.”
What to expect from both sides as they spin the merits of their respective deals.
His new book is “The Big Picture: The Fight for the Future of Movies.”
On Recode Media, “The Big Picture” author Ben Fritz explains how Disney keeps on winning.
“I had placed the company in an untenable position.”
Here’s how Netflix’s market cap has changed since the beginning of 2017.
He’s the man many people thought Bob Iger would pick to run the sports giant.
Interviews with Susan Wojcicki, Tim Armstrong, Jonah Peretti, Lydia Polgreen, Campbell Brown, Adam Mosseri, Brit Morin, Peter Rice, Janice Min, Kerry Trainor, Rony Abovitz, Adam Silver, Yaron Galai, Mike McCue, Kevin Mayer, Jack Conte and others.
Comcast bid $31 billion for European pay TV service Sky, besting Rupert Murdoch’s bid.
Last year it spent almost as much as Disney on non-sports programming.
Disney is one of the biggest media players in the game.
He’s spinning a lot of plates.
Kevin Mayer says Disney will invest in Hulu once it takes over.
Three more people you want to hear from. See you next week.
How much would you pay for sports you weren’t watching on TV?
Carey says advertising-dependent web publishers remind him of Buzz Lightyear in “Toy Story” — and that’s not a compliment.
Disney is about to make a huge bet on TV sports — when sports looks riskier than ever — and it will do it without its top sports exec.
Lawmakers on the House and Senate’s top antitrust committee say Congress should take a closer look.
Together they brought in more than $3 billion in domestic box office revenue this year.