Dish Loses 230,000 Pay TV Subscribers in First Quarter

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe Chinese government’s increasing regulation of the tech sector is a current concern for China’s major internet and online entertainment companies. But the latest quarterly results announcement for China’s biggest digital music company, Tencent Music Entertainment pointed to business as usual, at least for the moment.First quarter revenues, spanning the January to March 2021 period, at Tencent Music grew by 26% year on year.

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Scott Disick and Amelia Gray Hamlin! The pair, who were first linked in November, are getting more serious. «Amelia and Scott are doing well,» a source tells ET of the 19-year-old model and the 37-year-old businessman. «Amelia is mature for her age, and Scott and her [get] along great and things are easy.» The romance is even more meaningful because it marks Amelia's «first serious boyfriend.»«She's really into him,» the source adds.

Smart TV maker Vizio exceeded Wall Street analyst forecasts for its first quarterly report as a public company, posting revenue of $505.7 million and earnings of 2 cents a share.

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Josh Duggar‘s sister Joy-Anna Duggar, 23, and her husband Austin Forsyth, 27, are speaking out about his child pornography charges for the first time as he awaits his trial. The reality stars shared the same message to their Instagram stories on May 8 and it revealed how “heartbroken” they are about the situation and also asked for “prayers.”

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Yahoo Finance. Cinemark actually posted a loss of $1.75 per share on $114.4 million in revenue.Of that revenue figure, $56.1 million came from ticket sales and $39.5 million at the concessions stand.For the sake of a comparison, Cinemark lost $59.4 million in the first quarter of 2020, or -51 cents per share.

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Cable operator Charter Communications, in which John Malone's Liberty Broadband owns a big stake, lost 138,000 pay TV subscribers in the first quarter. Just like in the fourth quarter of 2020, Charter's broadband user gains remained a key growth engine amid the coronavirus pandemic, but subscriber growth slowed over the comparable period of 2020.

Giant-screen exhibitor Imax posted higher first-quarter revenues as it was lifted by a recovery in the Asian box office. The company, led by CEO Richard Gelfond, reduced its loss attributable to shareholders to $14.8 million, compared with a loss of $49.4 million last year when Imax was hit hard by movie theater closures during the novel coronavirus pandemic.

NBCUniversal’s streaming service Peacock had 42 million signups in the first quarter — up from the 33 million it reported three months ago — benefiting from the recent addition of exclusive domestic streaming rights to WWE Network and The Office.

Yahoo Finance. Comcast reported adjusted EPS of 76 cents on $27.2 billion in revenue for the quarter ended March 31.In other good news, Comcast reported that its young streaming service Peacock has now hit 42 million sign-ups in its first quarter as home to “The Office” and WWE Network programming.“We are off to a great start in 2021.

YouTube continues to grow at a torrid pace, with any sign of pandemic slowdown seemingly behind it. The Google-owned video platform brought in more than $6 billion in advertising revenue in the first quarter of 2021, according to the quarterly earnings report of parent company Alphabet.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorWe’ve been reluctant to jinx it, but after a disastrous non-launch earlier this month, the website for the Small Business Administration’s Shuttered Venue Relief Grant (SVOG) was up and running at noon E.T.

American Idol alum Avalon Young, who finished as a Top 8 contestant on the show’s final season on Fox in 2016, recently revealed she is battling brain cancer and must soon undergo a second surgery.