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Streaming Is Now 20% Of TV Viewing, Netflix Clings To Top Spot
Thursday, February 13, 2020 - 4:33pm | 552About 20% of American TV consumption is now done by streaming, according a new report from Nielsen that also says Netflix Inc (NASDAQ: NFLX) remains the top way customers stream their entertainment. The percentage of TV watching that is now done through streaming has almost doubled since 2018,...
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International Subscriber Growth Keeps Analysts Mostly Still Tuned In To Netflix
Thursday, October 17, 2019 - 3:39pm | 782Will Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) be able to fend off new competition and continue to grow subscribers? It wasn't looking so good a few months ago, but after a rebound in subscriber growth in the third quarter led by overseas customers some analysts are thinking: Stranger Things have happened....
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Analysts Waiting To See Whether ViacomCBS Will Do Better Than Viacom And CBS
Wednesday, August 14, 2019 - 3:05pm | 630Wall Street analysts are taking a wait-and-see approach to the long-anticipated merger CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS)-Viacom, Inc. (NASDAQ: VIAB) merger, questioning whether the combined companies will create a more profitable global streaming business together than each could have built on their own...
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Fox Analysts Talk Sports, Politics, Cord-Cutting After Q4 Print
Thursday, August 8, 2019 - 3:21pm | 648Fox Corp (NASDAQ: FOXA) reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings Wednesday as the newly pared-down company bucked industry trends. The beat came despite lower ad revenue and losses in cable subscribers, with tailwinds from gains in affiliate feeds and retransmission revenue. The...
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Streaming Services Add Up: What Happened To Cord-Cutting To Save On Cable?
Thursday, July 11, 2019 - 7:45am | 937Cord-cutting was supposed to be the cheaper, better alternative to cable and satellite TV. Why pay for endless hours of people fixing up houses, six cooking networks and minor league Italian basketball when all you really watch is "Game of Thrones" and the Steelers? Cord-cutting —...
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Return To 'Twin Peaks' With These Lynchian Stock Picks
Saturday, May 20, 2017 - 2:48pm | 885Following a running trend of decades-old movies and television properties finding new life on today’s screens, "Twin Peaks," the long-dormant ABC property from idiosyncratic director David Lynch and novelist Mark Frost, is making its anticipated return to television on May 21 as a...
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The Top 10 Most Binge-Watched Programs
Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - 4:21pm | 709TiVo (NASDAQ: TIVO) Media Research, along with Albert Fried, recently conducted a 15,000-person survey. The results from that survey showed that, perhaps unsurprisingly, about 91 percent of respondents binge-watch television. Albert Fried released a note on Wednesday, listing the top 10 most...
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After Avatar Success: 3D Going Mainstream
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 5:02pm | 283Although the technology has existed since the 1920's and many films have tried to use it to create a more realistic movie experience, 3D has never been a hit with viewers. All that has changed with the success of Avatar. The film is only the second movie ever to gross over $1 billion in ticket...