Nolte: I Canceled Netflix, and I Feel Fine
Buh-bye, Netflix. You, and that $5 billion pile of garbage you call “content,” will not be missed.
Buh-bye, Netflix. You, and that $5 billion pile of garbage you call “content,” will not be missed.
Bidenflation is wreaking havoc on Hollywood’s streaming cash cow as subscribers weary of skyrocketing prices are cutting back on streaming subscriptions.
Netflix is betting that a cheaper version of its streaming service with commercials will help save its hide as the company continues to deal with an unprecedented exodus of subscribers. But the Biden recession is throwing another hurdle in the company’s way: a significant slowdown in ad spending that is already hurting other streamers.
NBCUniversal can’t seem to whip up much consumer enthusiasm for its Peacock streaming service. The highly touted streamer — which features MSNBC programming and original scripted shows like “Queer as Folk” — failed to grow its subscriber base during the second quarter and even lost $467 million in the process.
CNN+ will end its historic run today, Thursday, April 28, just four weeks after its disastrous premiere.
Every day is Christmas as more and more stories pour in about CNN+’s predictable, catastrophic, and humiliating failure.
What could bring more joy to the hearts of righteous men everywhere than bad news for the lying, violent pigs at CNN?
Sales of music on physical CDs rose for the first time in two decades in 2021, according to data from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
CNN is working hard to build hype for its new digital streaming service CNN+, which is set to debut before the end of March. But internal scandals keep usurping the spotlight, with CNN chief Jeff Zucker’s sex scandal becoming the
Hollywood streaming services, including Disney+ and HBO Max, are facing a major challenge in their efforts to expand their subscriber bases. New data reveal customer churn has become a problem as streamers are failing to retain subscribers who sign up around the release of a hotly anticipated new movie or TV show.
With the announcement that there will not even be a streaming presentation this year, the collapse of the Golden Globes is complete.
Hollywood crews are blowing the whistle on the studios, claiming their members are being pushed to their limits to make up for lost time under the pandemic and to satisfy consumers’ bottomless demand for streaming content, according to a new report.
The pro-lockdown, government-sycophants in Hollywood are reaping a little of what they sowed with a massive piracy problem.
A Brazilian Fortnite streamer known online as RaulZito has reportedly been arrested by Brazilian authorities on charges that he sexually assaulted two minors.
After “Black Widows'” quick death, online movie pirates might be the very scourge that saves movie theaters from extinction.
CNN, a far-left propaganda outlet that encourages violence against conservatives and spreads conspiracy theories, can’t even announce the creation of its new streaming service without lying.
Media mogul Barry Diller believes the streaming media revolution has killed and buried the movie business, predicting that the industry as we know it “will never come back.”
A popular Chinese streaming application that specialized in foreign TV shows and movies was removed from Apple’s App Store on Sunday, reportedly to address problems with “illegal” and “problematic” content.
The far-left Walt Disney Company blinked bigtime this week. Marvel’s “Black Widow” is moving to streaming.
Roku has acquired the long-running home improvement series This Old House, including the TV studio behind the show and all episodes of This Old House and Ask This Old House.
Streaming giant Netflix is reportedly considering cracking down on users sharing their account passwords with friends and family.
Viacom CBS is calling it Paramount+, but the big news is the how the theatrical window is about to be sliced in half.
Some “27% of U.S. cable TV subscribers plan to end their subscriptions by the end of 2021, which is nearly double from 2020.”
Movie actors and actresses have cheapened themselves, and by extension their product, and now they’re going to find themselves TV actors… And they deserve it.
Listen, there will always be movie theaters of some sort. People like going out to the movies. But movie-going as it had been? Doubtful.
The Taiwanese government announced on Thursday that it will block video streaming services from Chinese mega-corporations Tencent and Baidu.
A recent report states that internet usage has surged by between 50 and 70 percent during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic while streaming services have seen a 12 percent increase in usage.
With another 6 million lost subscribers in 2019, customers are still fleeing traditional cable and satellite networks in droves.
Two computer programmers in Las Vegas have pleaded guilty to multiple criminal copyright and money laundering charges related to the popular illegal streaming and download sites iStreamItAll and Jetflicks, which offered pirated versions of Hollywood TV shows and movies.
Netflix has incurred the wrath of some of Hollywood’s most prominent filmmakers — including Judd Apatow and Brad Bird — after the streamer reportedly began testing a new feature that will allow subscribers to play content at variable speeds.
AT&T is expecting to lose over 1 million TV subscribers in the third quarter of this year, amid increased competition from online streaming services. Meanwhile, AT&T’s shareholders are telling the company that buying DirecTV was a big mistake.
The DOJ reportedly sent a letter to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, warning it against removing movies on streaming services like Netflix from Academy Award eligibility —citing antitrust laws.
British Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Jeremy Wright appeared to threaten heavier regulation of streaming services like Amazon Prime and Netflix to “encourage” them to “reflect and represent” the “full diversity” of the United Kingdom, like the BBC.
Jay-Z’s music streaming service Tidal is reportedly under investigation in Norway over allegations that the company faked listener numbers. The extent of the faked numbers could allegedly involve hundreds of millions of false plays of albums from major artists like Beyonce.
Netflix has reportedly taken on an additional $2 billion in debt in an effort to further expand its original programming and licensed content.
iHeartMedia, the largest radio broadcaster in the United States, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy — owing $20 billion in debt.
Songwriters and publishers are set to receive increased royalties from Spotify, Apple Music, and other music streaming services, following a ruling.
Digital music streaming services now reportedly account for the majority of music consumption in Britain.
60 percent of young Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 use online streaming services as their primary way to watch television, according to a report.
Advertisers are reportedly aiming to increase product placement in shows that appear on streaming services that don’t have advertisements such as Netflix and Hulu.