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Why Is WBD Paying $8.5 Billion For a Physical Studio ... While It's $38 Billion in Debt and AI Production Is Dawning?
By Daniel Frankel, David Bloom published
Also in this week's 'Next Text,' we break down Kamala Harris' Bigger DNC crowd sizes, and we look at how the Venu Sports guys really messed up
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Charter Puts Ad-Supported Paramount Plus into Its Most Popular Spectrum Pay TV Bundles
By Daniel Frankel published
Cable operator reached broad-reaching carriage agreement with Paramount Global back in May that let it offer Paramount Plus Essentials at no additional cost to subscribers
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More than 18% of U.S. Broadband Users Consume More than 1 TB of Data Each Month
By Daniel Frankel published
OpenVault’s latest quarterly usage report also found that monthly average data usage was up 9.7% year over year to 585.8 GB in Q2
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How NBCU Smartly Leveraged Social Media to Drive Olympics Viewership
By Jack Reid published
Social video now surpasses subscription video-on-demand in terms of consumer watch time, researchers say
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Warner Bros To Pay $8.5 Billion for Nevada Studio … Under One Condition
By Jack Reid published
The roughly $500 million annual commitment depends on the outcome of a state Senate proposal
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Peacock Added 2.8 Million Signups During the Olympics, Research Company Says
By Daniel Frankel published
The uptake compares to 3 million signups the NBCU subscription streaming service received for its AFC Wild Card exclusive back in January, according to Antenna
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DirecTV Programming Chief: The Venu Sports Guys 'Got Caught With Their Hands in The Cookie Jar in a Big Way'
By Daniel Frankel published
With a federal court ruling casting a harsh light on practices including bloated network bundles and forced minimum penetration, Rob Thun touts a plan for a 'brighter TV future'
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Democrats Draw Bigger Crowd: DNC Averages Over 20 Million Viewers on First Night, Outpaces Last Month's RNC
By Daniel Frankel published
Night 1 of the Republican National Convention averaged just 18.31 million viewers
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