Apple and NBCUniversal announce an Apple TV and Peacock Premium bundle for $14.99/month, representing a 30%+ discount to buying both subscriptions individually
here's what you get and how much you save El Kuiper / Screen Rant : Apple TV And Peacock Bundle: Streaming Services Team Up Hannah Miller / Bloomberg : Apple TV Joins With NBC's Peacock to Offer New S...
NBCU says an AI-generated voice of legendary sportscaster Al Michaels is going to give daily, personalized recaps of the Paris Olympics on its streamer Peacock
Sources: Amazon paid $120M for exclusive rights to show a 2025 NFL playoff game on Prime Video; NBCU paid $110M for the January 2024 NFL payoff game on Peacock
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GroupM forms a consortium with Disney, Roku, NBCU, YouTube, and others to push for standardized measurements and ad formats that can be used across streamers
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Sources: Apple pauses all its advertising on X after Elon Musk's endorsement of an antisemitic X post and a report that Apple ads ran next to pro-Nazi content
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Disney plans to acquire NBCU's 33% stake in Hulu, gaining full ownership, and expects to pay ~$8.61B, representing NBCU's share of a $27.5B guaranteed floor
The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) announced today that it will acquire the 33% stake in Hulu, LLC held by Comcast Corp.'s (NASDAQ …
Netflix begins rolling out its Basic with Ads tier; sources say licensing negotiations with Disney, Comcast, Sony, Warner Bros., and Lions Gate are ongoing
Disney, NBCU and Sony are among the companies still negotiating licensing with the streaming service
NBCU-owned Rotten Tomatoes launches a streaming channel, currently available on The Roku Channel and which will later expand to Peacock and Comcast's Xumo
Rotten Tomatoes is continuing on its quest to grow into something substantially bigger than its Tomatometer movie and TV rating scores. Source: Rotten Tomatoes and PR Newswire .
NFL finalizes an 11-year media rights deal, with Amazon Prime Video as exclusive partner for Thursday Night Football; sources: Amazon is paying about $1B/year
Amazon will get exclusive rights to Thursday Night Football Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times : NFL nearly doubles fees for TV rights; Amazon to get exclusive games for streaming Charlotte Walsh /...
Internal data shows only 11.3M US households regularly watch NBCU's Peacock; sources: NBCU has pitched ViacomCBS about bundling their streaming services
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