Disney+ Subscriber Forecast Boosted by Analyst

Cable operator Charter Communications, in which John Malone's Liberty Broadband owns a big stake, would love to see financial relief for its subscribers for sports events that have been canceled amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. Charter chairman and CEO Tom Rutledge on the company's Friday first-quarter earnings conference call said that he and his team have talked "for years about the reality of programming costs and how sports drives" most of them.

By Dade Hayes

Apple's services division, which includes Apple TV+, Apple Music and Apple Arcade, set an "all-time record" for the company in the first quarter of 2020, generating more than $13.3 billion in revenue.The tech giant on Thursday released its first-quarter earnings, with total revenues of $58.3 billion, up a modest 1% from a year ago but beating Wall Street expectations.“Despite COVID-19’s unprecedented global impact, we’re proud to report that Apple grew for the quarter, driven by an all-time

LONDON – Spotify's business "remains very healthy" despite the global uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the streaming giant reported in its first quarter financial results.In the three months ending March 31, Spotify grew its user base to 130 million paid subscribers and 286 total monthly active users.

By Todd Spangler

Telecom giant Verizon on Friday reported that it lost 84,000 net pay TV subscribers for its FiOS consumer video service in the first quarter, compared with a loss of 55,000 in the year-ago period and a loss of 51,000 in the fourth quarter. The company cited "the ongoing shift from traditional linear video to over-the-top offerings," saying it ended March with 4.07 million consumer video connections.

People watching more entertainment programming while sheltering at home propelled Netflix to a strong first three months of 2020, the company announced Tuesday The streaming giant added 15.8 million subscribers during the first quarter of the year, a period of record growth that has rocketed its global base to nearly 183 million.

By Todd Spangler

People watching more entertainment programming while sheltering at home propelled Netflix to a strong first three months of 2020, the company announced TuesdayThe streaming giant added 15.8 million subscribers during the first quarter of the year, a period of record growth that has rocketed its global base to nearly 183 million.Netflix had expected to add just 7 million subs during the period, but the company forecast that growth before the full effects of the pandemic had been felt globally.In

Content chief Ted Sarandos says 2020 originals have been shot, doesn't expect reshuffling of releases

By Dade Hayes, Jill Goldsmith

Netflix has a huge new audience, largely due to the ongoing global health crisis, which has millions staying at home.

Livingston gaffer, Gary Holt, is delighted to have sealed the pre-contract signing of Alan Forrest from Ayr United.

By Jill Goldsmith

We’ve just heard that Billy Wilder’s classic movie A Foreign Affair will be available for the first time on Blu-ray on the 22nd June. The film stars Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich and John Lund and mixes romance with hard-boiled wit in a story about stiff-necked Iowa congresswoman Phoebe Frost (Arthur) mired in jaded postwar Berlin.

Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta star and rapper, Rasheeda, 37, fired back at a fan on Twitter after they compared her husband, Kirk Frost, 51, to R. Kelly, 53.

By Andreas Wiseman

It is always nice to see Tom Hanks on screen. This weekend, it was extra special. The Forrest Gump actor made his first show appearance since he contracted COVID-19. The news of him testing positive for Coronavirus shattered the world. However, the actor has not only recovered but hosted the Saturday Night Live gig on Saturday with no audience. The live show was hosted from a remote location owing to the pandemic. While it was a strange SNL episode, Hanks eased us into it.