EchoStarlost about 348,000 net pay TV subscribers in the first quarter, compared with a drop of 552,000 in the year-ago period, the company said on Wednesday. The company disclosed in a regulatory filing early on Wednesday that it lost around 135,000net Sling TVsubscribers in the latest quarter, compared with a year-ago loss of 234,000. It ended March with 1.92 million...

Apple Studios is facing a lawsuit accusing it of violating a series of California labor laws on the set of Palm Royale. Daniel Ferguson, in a proposed class action filed on May 3 in Los Angeles Superior Court, claims the studio stiffed him and other background actors on pay, maintained a policy and practice of not paying them for all...

Live sports are coming to Disney+ sooner than you might think. ESPN says that next Tuesdays WNBA tip-off games, including Caitlin Clarks regular season debut with the league, will stream on Disney+. On May 14, Clarks Indiana Fever will face off against the Connecticut Sun, and the Phoenix Mercury will face the Las Vegas Aces. Both games will stream on...

YouTube star Laurenzside, also known as Lauren Weber, has signed with CAA for representation. The gaming content creator has gathered over 13 million combined followers, and earned nearly 4 billion views on YouTube as her videos each earns an average one million views. Laurenzsides draw is comedic gameplay and improv for her YouTube channel with video titles like 24 Hour...

Disneys latest quarterly earnings report and conference call with management had much for Wall Street to like, including progress toward streaming profits and an increased full-year earnings forecast, but it wasnt enough to keep its shares from dropping around 10 percent on Tuesday. As of 12:15 p.m. E.T., Disneys stock was down 10.4 percent at $104.32, making it one of...

TikTok has sued the U.S. government, accusing it of trampling on its First Amendment rights when legislation was signed into law forcing its Chinese parent company to sell the social media platform or face a national ban. The lawsuit, filed in federal court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday, marks the most momentous challenge to the governments forceful rebuke...

Barry Dillers IAC has cut a deal with one of the biggest players in artificial intelligence, OpenAI. Dotdash Meredith, the IAC-controlled publishing company that owns publications like People, Food Wine, Better Homes Gardens, InStyle, Southern Living, and Real Simple, has cut a strategic partnership and licensing agreement that will bring DDMs content to ChatGPT. The content that will be accessible...

Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren didnt mince any words. CEO pay is out of control, she posted on April 22, singling out Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, whose team has had a rocky road integrating two companies since the mega-merger that created the Hollywood conglomerate, dealing with a high debt load and shoring up profits.Zaslav made $49.7 million last year,...

Disney is exploring licensing some of its content to third parties outside of Netflix. Were already doing some licensing with Netflix, and were looking selectively at other possibilities. I dont want to declare that its a direction well go more aggressively or not. But we certainly are taking a look at it and being expansive in our thinking about it,...

Disney is planning to reevaluate its slate of films and TV shows from Marvel Studios, with the company set to reduce its output from the comic book franchise studio. On Disneys fiscal Q2 earnings call, Disney CEO Bob Iger told analysts that the company is finally moving away from a vestige, basically a desire in the past to increase volume....

Disney plans to add an ESPN tile to Disney+ as it prepares to launch its new standalone ESPN streaming service. The tile will be added by the end of the calendar year, Disney CEO Bob Iger said, and will feature select live games as well as studio programming, to watch within Disney+. This feature will be available for all U.S....

The Writers Guild of Canada and the Canadian Media Producers Association, representing local indie film and television producers, have agreed terms for a new labor contract. Terms of the latest Independent Production Agreement, which awaits ratification, were not disclosed. But they will cover rates and workplace conditions for Canadian writers, story editors, and story consultants. Key stumbling blocks in the...

Disney is on the precipice of the entertainment industrys white whale: Profitability in streaming. The company reported its fiscal Q2 earnings early Tuesday morning, disclosing that its combined direct-to-consumer businesses of Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+ lost only $18 million last quarter, on revenues of $6.2 billion, and that when ESPN+ is removed from that equation, the entertainment streaming business was...