Locast Halts Operations After Court Ruling Zaps Streaming Service

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorCBSN represented the first effort by one of the traditional broadcast networks to get into the news streaming game, and its name was meant to evoke digital concepts. But that was so 2014.CBS News intends to phase out the CBSN moniker later this year and give its streaming effort the same identity its other products have: CBS News.

Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) is rolling out its streaming service Viaplay into five new markets through 2023.

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Channel 4 is “needed” in order for it to “compete with the streaming giants”, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden is expected to say in a new speech.Set to speak today (September 15) at the Royal Television Society Convention, Dowden is due to discuss Channel 4’s current “stable position” while outlining why further investment is key to its growth.“Without [more money], Channel 4 won’t have the money to invest in technology and programming, and it won’t be able to compete with the streaming giants,”

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorLatino-owned TV and media company Fuse Media is rolling onto the streaming battlefield with the official launch of Fuse Plus, priced at $2 per month as a standalone service and available at no extra cost to customers of participating pay-TV operators.Fuse Plus officially launches Sept. 13, after debuting in beta in June.

Kyogo Furuhashi will be missing for around a month after picking up an injury on international duty, according to a report. The Japan forward suffered a knee problem during the World Cup 2022 qualifier against China, which his side would go on to win 1-0.

Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins has criticised the straight-to-streaming model for films, saying they feel “like fake movies”.Across the pandemic, a host of films have foregone traditional cinema releases due to restrictions, and gone to streaming services straight away, something that is becoming more common even outside of COVID restrictions.In a CinemaCon appearance this week (as noted by the Los Angeles Times), Jenkins hit out at films made for streaming services.“Aren’t you seeing it?

Director Patty Jenkins recently voiced her objection to the day-and-date model at CinemaCon, which was first used by WarnerMedia on her film “Wonder Woman 1984” before applying the hybrid model to all of their 2021 releases as a way to help boost subscriptions to their streaming service, HBO Max.

sued Locast in 2019, saying Locast violated their copyrights, and asked for the service to be shut down.Locast has held that because it is a nonprofit, it found a legal loophole in copyright law — it can stream the networks of ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox without paying them.

Olly Murs has been praised for halting his gig and jumping off stage to check on a 14 year old fan who was having a seizure in the crowd.The 37 year old is currently touring the UK, with a recent stop in his native Essex seeing him perform at Colchester Castle Park on Sunday.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorDisney is taking a new step to streamline its streaming portfolio: The media company plans to phase out the Hotstar U.S. service — which provides live cricket and South Asian programming to American audiences — over the next year.Instead, Disney will take the sports and entertainment programming in Hotstar and repackage it into ESPN Plus (which will pick up all of Hotstar’s U.S.

Disney’s stand-alone Star+ streaming service has launched in Latin America.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterA day after Ed Asner died at the age of 91, his lawsuit against the SAG-AFTRA Health Plan was allowed to live on.U.S. District Judge Christina Snyder indicated at a hearing that she would deny a motion to dismiss the lawsuit.

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Kanye West has reportedly turned in his long-awaited 10th album ‘DONDA’ for release on streaming services this weekend.According to HITS Daily Double, the album will finally see the light of day at some point today (August 28).HITS’ sources claim that Kanye has delivered ‘DONDA’ to DSPS once before, only to take them back for further work – meaning that even if the reports are true, they may not necessarily offer a guarantee of the album’s release.The release of ‘DONDA’ has been announced and

Christy Carlson Romano is opening up about the life lessons she learned as a young actress in Hollywood.

online streaming service with some having up to three and maybe four, all of which cost money.A personal finance expert has recommended that for those hoping to save money a 'TV Tapas Method' is the best approach.By now it is likely that most of us have shared accounts for premium services to save money but have you considered mixing up your paid accounts with free ones and working them in rotation?The 'Tapas' method makes money-savers answer the question of how much TV they actually watch and