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Verizon will offer the ad-supported Netflix and Max tiers in a bundle for $10 a month starting Dec. 7. The deal, available for Verizon’s myPlan customers, reps more than 40% in savings, the big telco said today.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Telecom giant Verizon hired Leslie Berland, previously the top marketing exec at Peloton and Twitter, as CMO. Berland will assume the role of executive VP and chief marketing officer at Verizon, effective Jan. 9, 2024.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Verizon and YouTube are calling a new customer-acquisition play aimed a gridiron fans. The telco has teamed with YouTube to give free access to NFL Sunday Ticket — which provides every out-of-market Sunday afternoon game — for the 2023-24 season to eligible new and upgrading wireless and home internet customers. In late 2022, YouTube landed a seven-year deal for the NFL Sunday Ticket retail package, wresting it away from DirecTV (which inked a separate deal sell it to bars, restaurants and other commercial establishments).

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterSUN VALLEY, Idaho — The Elon Musk watch is on.The first full day of Allen & Co.’s exclusive conference and retreat for the wealthy and well-connected concluded Wednesday at the luxe Sun Valley resort. Even among the assembled 1%-ers, there was anticipation for the arrival of the maverick leader of Tesla and SpaceX, who is expected to make an appearance at the annual meeting of moguls and C-suite titans.Following Tuesday’s many arrivals and some solo morning time, during which Verizon chief Hans Vestberg went for a run around the resort in the 6 a.m.

Telecom giantVerizonon Wednesday reported that it lost 82,000 net pay TV subscribers for its FiOS consumer video service in the first quarter, compared with a loss of 84,000 in the year-ago period and a loss of 72,000in the fourth quarter.

Hans Vestberg, chairman and CEO of telecom giant Verizon, saw his 2020 overall compensation rise to $19.09 million, up from $18.09 million in 2019. In a Monday SEC filing, Verizon revealed Vestberg's base salary was $1.5 million for the last two years, but he received $13.3 million in stock awards last year, compared to $12 million in 2019.

Verizon execs Tuesday touted partnerships with A-list streamers, talked up their a slimmed-down media group and defended linear television even as traditional video subscribers continue to erode.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorVerizon kicked off the virtual 2021 CES trade show Monday with a keynote delivered by CEO Hans Vestberg — starring 5G, the wireless technology the telco has invested billions in.Verizon is now trying to make the case to consumers and businesses that it’s a truly game-changing communications and entertainment breakthrough. To date, Verizon has rolled out 5G in more than 2,700 U.S.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorApple took the wraps off the iPhone 12, the tech giant’s first smartphones that support 5G wireless technology.Apple said it has tested the 5G iPhone 12 phones with 100 carriers in 30 regions — and claims it obtained speeds up to 3.5 gigabits per second with good conditions, and up to 4 Gbps under ideal conditions.“5G just got real,” Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg said at Apple’s virtual product launch Tuesday from its Cupertino headquarters.

Verizon's decision to expand its deal to offer the Disney+ streaming service free to certain subscribers by offering Disney's bundle of streaming services came due to the strong Disney brand, CEO Hans Vestberg signaled on Tuesday. "Our strategy in this area" of teaming with content brands has worked well in the case of Apple Music and Disney+, which had a "great start" when it launched late last year, he saidduring an appearance at the virtual Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorNext year’s CES, the world’s biggest consumer-technology trade show, has been pushed back a few days in January 2021, the Consumer Technology Association announced. CTA also announced Verizon chairman/CEO Hans Vestberg as the kickoff keynoter for the online-only event.Originally, CES 2021 was scheduled to run Jan.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorVerizon CEO Hans Vestberg will deliver the opening keynote at January’s CES, but not in its usual cavernous Las Vegas setting.The event, slated for January 11-14, has gone all-digital due to concerns about the coronavirus. In non-pandemic times, the lack of social distance is a trademark of the massive confab, which draws hundreds of thousands of attendees.