Streamers to Outspend Broadcasters on Content for First Time as Cord Cutting Decimates Cable
Streaming services are expected to outspend traditional broadcasters for the first time ever in 2025 as households continue to cut the cord by the millions.

Streaming services are expected to outspend traditional broadcasters for the first time ever in 2025 as households continue to cut the cord by the millions.
The world’s largest film piracy ring, Fmovies, has reportedly been shuttered after an international coalition, which included major Hollywood studios, worked with police in Hanoi, Vietnam, to shut it down.
Actress Cate Blanchett says she believes “There’s a distinct lack of shame in society” today, suggesting that shame can be useful, as “the lessons one can learn from that are very powerful.”
Apple TV will reportedly cut over $20B in spending after a quarter report showed its views per month were actually lower than Netflix views.
Isn’t replacing a minority group with a majority group discrimination?
An assistant costume designer on Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon is suing Apple Studios for racial discrimination.
Netflix, Apple TV+, and Peacock will soon offer a streaming bundle. This comes after Disney announced a streaming bundle with Hulu and Max.
A new phenomenon known as “serial churners” spells trouble for streaming services wherein people subscribe only temporarily.
NEW YORK — The mild-mannered Franklin — the first Black character in the “Peanuts” comic strip — gets to shine in his own animated Apple TV+ special this month in a story about friendship.
Apple’s $200 million Argylle tanked at the box office with a $16.5 million opening, which ensured the overall 2024 box office drought marched into February.
The price of a monthly Apple TV+ subscription is rising, starting on users’ next monthly bill.
Jon Stewart clashed with Apple TV+ over subject matter for his show, such as China, where Apple does big business.
Apple TV+ has about 12 million subscribers, and only 40,000 were tuning in to watch Jon Stewart. Now that’s funny.
According to reports, market experts feel that Apple TV may eventually buy Disney-owned cable sports network ESPN.
Hollywood is nearing the end of a second month of striking by the Writers Guild of America (WGA) – essentially halting production of scripted programming – with little sign of an agreement looming between the writers and major studios and streaming services.
The showrunner of the new Apple TV+ animated kids series “Frog and Toad” said “you can’t deny” that the show has a gay subtext between its two male protagonists, claiming that the gay subtext was also present in the classic children’s books published in the 1970s.
Hollywood star Reese Witherspoon is on a mission to make country music “more inclusive and representative” with her new reality competition TV show My Kind of Country, which the Oscar-winning actress is producing with anti-Trump singer Kacey Musgraves.
A White House visit by the cast of the Apple TV+ series “Ted Lasso” quickly devolved into chaos Monday when a reporter stole the spotlight by accusing Biden spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre of “making a mockery of the First Amendment.”
Apple has released the first trailer for its global warming apocalypse series “Extrapolations,” which features an all-star cast including Edward Norton, Meryl Streep, Marion Cotillard, Kit Harington, Tobey Maguire, and Forest Whitaker.
Will Smith’s “Emancipation” has ambitions well beyond its grasp, but works just fine as a streaming movie.
Actor Will Smith is offering people two free months of an Apple TV+ subscription so that viewers can watch his 2022 film Emancipation.
Hillary Clinton will give the American public a taste of her vocal abilities when she performs Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” and Katy Perry’s “Roar” in a new episode of Apple TV+’s “Carpool Karaoke,” joining her daughter Chelsea in a group rendition with stars Vanessa Williams and Amber Ruffin.
(AFP) Directing “Emancipation,” a brutal and harrowing film about slavery set deep in the alligator-infested Louisiana swamps, was always going to be a challenge for Antoine Fuqua — and then his star Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars.
Apple TV has changed its mind about adapting fake-journalist Maggie Haberman’s Trump biography into a failed series.
Apple TV+ shared a trailer for the historical drama “Emancipation” featuring Will Smith.
Comedian Jon Stewart admitted that Hunter Biden’s board position on the Ukranian gas company Burisma is “corruption, straight up.” His belated admission comes two years after the mainstream news media sought to bury the Hunter Biden laptop scandal in an effort to carry Joe Biden over the finish line during the 2020 presidential election.
Jon Stewart atoned for his past jokes about transgender people during the recent season two premiere of his Apple TV+ series, proclaiming “we are in a new dawn of gender and sex complexity.”
Some of Hollywood’s top showrunners, TV creators, and directors have thanked the major studios for protecting their access to abortion.
Filming for Apple TV’s “Lady in the Lake,” starring Natalie Portman, was shut down on Friday after thugs threatened members of the production crew with extortion and violence unless they paid a protection fee.
Hollywood star Natalie Portman publicly supported defunding the police back in 2020, encouraging politicians to deprive police departments of taxpayer dollars. Now the Oscar-winning actress is benefiting from Baltimore police protection after drug dealers threatened gun violence on the set of her new Apple TV+ series.
Hillary Clinton’s new Apple TV+ docuseries Gutsy is dedicated to spotlighting “gutsy” women who are leaders in their respective fields. But some of the “women” the show celebrates aren’t women — one is a biological male who performs as a drag queen, while another is transgender.
July 14 (UPI) — Hillary Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea Clinton, will launch their own Apple TV+ docuseries in September.
The Atlantic, a far-left propaganda outlet that spreads conspiracy theories, DESTROYED Jon Stewart this week with a devastating look at how the former comedian has lost his edge (and audience — not that he ever had one).
Jon Stewart, a former comedian most famous for playing himself on The Larry Sanders Show, suffered a Twitter meltdown Wednesday over a Breitbart News report about his ratings — or lack thereof.
Jon Stewart’s new Apple TV show is a humiliating flop with only 40,000 viewers, reports Bloomberg.
A planned movie based on the life of Hollywood star Will Smith is in trouble after Netflix and Apple have reportedly withdrawn their bids amid the fallout from the Oscars night slap.
Tech giant Apple is reportedly prepared to spend “billions” on live sports content over the next four years and is on an “aggressive hunt” for live sports streaming deals, according to analyst reports.
Comedian Jon Stewart is promoting his upcoming Apple TV+ show by releasing a raunchy spoof of the billionaire space race, starring Jason Alexander as a phallus-obsessed Jeff Bezos.
“Ted Lasso” star Jason Sudeikis showed his support for England’s three black soccer players who became the target of online abuse after they missed a series of penalty kicks, leading England to lose to Italy in the European Championships.
Prince Harry told Oprah Winfrey last Friday he will “will never be bullied into silence” and now he is delivering on his promise.