Want to Watch All of the Yankees’ Games on TV This Season? It’ll Cost You over $1,200.
The New York Yankees will be broadcast across ten different networks and streaming services in 2026, including the debut of live MLB games on Netflix. Watching every regular‑season game costs cord‑cutters about $1,262 annually, $1,235 with a live‑TV bundle, and $1,487 for traditional cable subscribers. The analysis breaks down each platform’s annual fee, highlighting the steep price of comprehensive coverage. The article also notes that over half of U.S. households have already cut the cord, a trend set to accelerate.
EE TV Rolls Out AI-Powered Smart Search
EE has introduced Smart Search, an AI‑driven content discovery tool for its EE TV platform, allowing users to locate shows and movies by describing mood, theme, plot elements or memorable lines. The feature aggregates results from live TV, on‑demand libraries,...
Sophie Turner Sustains 'Minor' Injury, and Prime Video's 'Tomb Raider' Series Halts Filming
Prime Video announced that filming of its highly anticipated "Tomb Raider" series has been paused after lead actress Sophie Turner suffered a minor injury on set. The series, starring Turner as Lara Croft, is being developed by Emmy‑winner Phoebe Waller‑Bridge and co‑showrunner...
MTV Lawsuit Over Nick Cannon’s New Rap Battle Show Can Move Ahead, Judge Says
A federal judge refused to dismiss MTV owner Viacom's lawsuit against Zeus Network over Nick Cannon's new rap‑battle series Bad vs. Wild, allowing trademark claims to move forward. While the court threw out Viacom's copyright infringement allegations, it found the...
DRIPFED.TV Launches with Homegrown Push Into Social First Series
Sydney‑based Fat Poodle has launched Dripfed.TV, a premium vertical‑studio streaming service built for mobile and social platforms. The platform delivers daily episodes under 90 seconds across Meta’s Facebook and Instagram, blending scripted and unscripted short‑form series. Its debut slate includes...
Grey's Anatomy Renewed For Season 23 At ABC
ABC has officially renewed Grey’s Anatomy for a 23rd season, extending the medical drama’s run through 2025. The core ensemble—including Ellen Pompeo, Chandra Wilson, and James Pickens Jr.—remains intact, while Kevin McKidd and Kim Raver will exit after the season‑22...
Global Streaming Revenue Tops $150B For First Time
Ampere Analysis reports that global subscription‑over‑the‑top (OTT) revenue has crossed the $150 billion threshold for the first time, marking a roughly 30% year‑over‑year increase. The surge reflects an expanding subscriber base that now exceeds 1.5 billion worldwide, with the strongest growth in...
20th Century Studios’ ‘Send Help’ Tops Weekly Fandango at Home Chart Through March 29
Disney‑owned 20th Century Studios’ dark comedy *Send Help* topped Fandango at Home’s weekly revenue chart for the week ending March 29, after its premium digital rental and sale launch on March 24. The film edged out Sony’s animated *GOAT*, which debuted at No. 2, while Jason Statham’s action...
BBC Develops North East Creative Cluster
The BBC has designated the North East as a key Creative Cluster, unveiling new commissions across drama, factual series and digital content. The eight‑part drama “The Northumbria Mysteries” starring Robson Green enters pre‑production, while a ten‑part adaptation of “The Secret Diary...
Looney Tunes ‘Rabbit Season’ Month Launches April 1
Warner Bros. Discovery has kicked off a month‑long "Rabbit Season" Looney Tunes spring campaign on April 1, featuring Bugs Bunny across gaming, streaming, retail and live events. The initiative introduces Bugs Bunny to Fortnite with exclusive skins and accessories, while also reviving classic content through a...
AMC Cancels Talamasca: The Secret Order After One Season
AMC announced the cancellation of *Talamasca: The Secret Order* after its six‑episode first season, making it the inaugural series in the Anne Rice Immortal Universe to be axed. The supernatural drama, starring Guy Denton and featuring a cast that included...
Laura Dern To Star In Jeffrey Epstein TV Series In Works At Sony TV Based On Julie K. Brown Book;...
Laura Dern will star and serve as executive producer on a Sony Pictures Television limited series adapting Julie K. Brown’s New York Times bestseller *Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story*. The project, produced by Adam McKay’s Hyperobject Industries, dramatizes Brown’s investigation that identified 80 victims...
Mediawan Names New Sales & Co-Productions SVP for U.K. & Scandinavia
Mediawan has appointed former FOX executive Robyn Hurd as senior vice president of sales and co‑productions for the United Kingdom and Scandinavia. The hire is part of a broader reorganization that adds dedicated heads for acquisitions, documentary, French‑speaking territories, Europe‑MENA,...
Paramount’s ‘Scream 7’ Hitting Digital Retail Platforms March 31, on Disc June 16
Paramount Pictures will release the seventh installment of its Scream horror franchise on digital retail platforms on March 31, 2026, with a premium‑price offering that includes 40 minutes of bonus material. A physical media version—4K Ultra HD, Blu‑ray, and DVD—will follow on...
Sundance Road Movie ‘Hot Water’ Acquired By Rich Spirit
Rich Spirit has acquired North American rights to Ramzi Bashour’s Sundance debut, the road dramedy “Hot Water.” The film, starring Lubna Azabal, Daniel Zolghadri and Dale Dickey, follows a Lebanese mother and her American son on a cross‑country journey from...
ITV Won’t Air In-Game Advertising During 2026 Fifa World Cup Drinks Breaks
ITV has decided not to air in‑game advertising during the mandatory three‑minute drinks breaks at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, even though FIFA permits broadcasters to use picture‑in‑picture or cut‑away ads. The decision stems from FIFA’s strict timing rules and...
JustWatch: Prime Video’s ‘Mercy,’ Hulu’s ‘Paradise’ Top Weekly Streaming Through March 29
Prime Video’s sci‑fi drama Mercy surged to the No. 1 spot on JustWatch’s weekly U.S. movie streaming chart for March 23‑29, outpacing Netflix’s Anaconda. Hulu’s original series Paradise claimed the top position on the TV streaming chart, while Netflix’s new series Something...
Week of March 16 Cable News Ratings: MS NOW Grows in Primetime and Total Day
In the Nielsen week of March 16, 2026, MS NOW was the only basic cable news network to increase total viewership in both primetime and total‑day, posting a 3% rise in each segment. Fox News remained the leader in absolute primetime viewers but...
Nanocosmos Targets Rising Stream Misuse with New Security Solution
German video‑delivery specialist nanocosmos launched nanoStream Control, a security and monitoring layer for its ultra‑low latency streaming platform. The solution lets operators revoke access tokens, block unauthorized joins, and enforce referrer allow‑lists in real time. Continuous anomaly detection, forensic watermarking...
MediaCo Takes Hot 97 From Radio to Broadcast TV in New York
MediaCo is launching Hot 97 TV on New York’s WASA‑TV broadcast platform on March 31, marking the first over‑the‑air television extension of the iconic Hip‑Hop radio station. The new channel will air the station’s on‑air talent—including Kid Mero, Funkmaster Flex and Nessa—alongside music videos,...
Crime House Accelerates Video Strategy This Spring
Crime House, the true‑crime division of PAVE Studios, announced a spring video expansion, adding a new video‑first series, *America’s Most Infamous Crimes*, and weekly video episodes to its existing *Murder True Crime Stories* and *Conspiracy Theories, Cults & Crimes* franchises....
How the Iran War Could Squeeze Hollywood’s Middle East Cash Pipeline | Analysis
Hollywood has become increasingly dependent on Gulf sovereign wealth funds, which have poured billions into studios, streaming platforms and a $55 billion buyout of Electronic Arts. The ongoing U.S.–Iran war threatens to raise financing costs, delay closings, and trigger material‑adverse‑change exits...
The Drama Your Honor Gets First Latin American Adaptation in Brazil
Israeli legal thriller *Your Honor* (originally *Kvodo*) is set for its first Latin American version in Brazil, produced by Teleimage. The adaptation makes Brazil the 14th territory to localise the format, which K7’s Tracking the Scripted Giants Report names the...
NAB Show: BCNEXXT To Focus On Turning Industry Pressure Into Opportunity
BCNEXXT will use the NAB Show in Las Vegas to showcase its cloud‑native playout platform, Vipe, positioning it as a solution for broadcasters facing operational pressures and evolving market demands. The company highlights Vipe’s elastic scaling, IP‑based distribution capabilities, and...
Roku Launches Dedicated Channel for The Hunger Games Franchise on Roku TVs & Roku Players
Roku has launched a dedicated, free streaming channel (Channel 230) that aggregates the entire Hunger Games film series for Roku TV and player users. The channel is part of The Roku Channel’s ad‑supported offering, requiring no subscription fee. By consolidating the four...
The Hallmark Channel Is Shutting Down Its TV App Tomorrow on Roku, Fire TV, Google TV, & More
Hallmark Media will discontinue its TV Everywhere app on Roku, Fire TV, Google TV and other smart platforms on March 31, 2026, redirecting users to error screens thereafter. The removal ends the authenticated streaming option that let cable and satellite subscribers watch...
What the Netflix–Warner Music Deal Really Means for Artists and Brands
Warner Music Group has signed a multi‑year, first‑look agreement with Netflix, giving the streamer priority access to documentary series and films about WMG’s legendary and contemporary artists. The partnership taps Netflix’s growing reputation for premium music documentaries and provides Warner...
Eurosport 3 and 4 to Launch in Poland
Warner Bros. Discovery is launching two new sports channels, Eurosport 3 and Eurosport 4, in Poland on April 1, 2026. The channels will be carried by 34 satellite and cable operators, expanding the existing Eurosport 1 and 2 lineup. Eurosport 3 will broadcast the full Speedway...
Will The Last of Us Come to an End with Season 3? HBO Boss Issues Update on the Show's Future
HBO chairman Casey Bloys confirmed that season 3 will likely serve as the final chapter of The Last of Us, though the network intends to keep the post‑apocalyptic universe accessible for future projects. Season 2 covered the first half of the second...
Netflix Opens New Warsaw Office as Co-CEO Greg Peters Touts Expansion of Tech and Content Hub Poland
Netflix inaugurated a new Warsaw office, consolidating 300 engineers, creators and support staff under one roof. The hub joins Netflix’s only technology center outside the United States and will broaden work on infrastructure, gaming and production tools. Since launching in...
BBC Studioworks Draws on INFiLED to Upgrade National Lottery Production Facility
BBC Studioworks has chosen INFiLED’s DBmk2 LED panels to modernise the National Lottery draw studio at Television Centre. Two 5 × 3 metre screens with a 1.95 mm pixel pitch are mounted at a 90‑degree angle, allowing instant backdrop changes at the push of a...
Canal+ Wins French Appeal Court Backing for Anti-Piracy DNS Blocks
Canal+ secured a landmark ruling from the Paris Court of Appeal allowing it to block illegal streaming and IPTV services through alternative DNS providers such as Google, Cloudflare and Cisco. The decision, the first of its kind in France, confirms...
Telestream Expands Integration with Adobe Premiere, Media Encoder and Frame.io
Telestream announced an expanded integration of its Vantage platform with Adobe Premiere, Adobe Media Encoder and Frame.io. The new Vantage panel inside Premiere lets editors submit sequences directly to automated workflows, where AME rendering, metadata application and delivery logic are...
The Battle for Attention on CTV: Premium Video Platforms Vs. YouTube
Connected TVs will be in 83% of U.S. households by 2027, prompting advertisers to lift CTV spend, with 70% planning a 17% increase in 2026. A VAB‑TVision study of 21 premium video platforms versus YouTube measured hard‑working impressions—co‑viewing, attention, and...
Research: Streaming Revenue Surpasses $150bn in 2025
Streaming subscription revenue reached $157.1 billion in 2025, surpassing the $150 billion milestone for the first time. The market has tripled since 2020, driven by international expansion, price hikes and the rapid adoption of ad‑supported tiers. The United States alone generated half...
Genelec Powers Paris Post Production for Titrafilm
Genelec has partnered with Titrafilm to equip its two Paris post‑production sites with a full suite of Genelec monitors, covering mix, ADR, sound‑edit, picture‑edit and grading rooms. The installation features 1032C and 8340A speakers for 38‑speaker Atmos setups, 4430A Smart IP...
Spain: RTVE in World Cup Ad Spat
Spain’s public broadcaster RTVE is selling advertising slots for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, reigniting a long‑standing feud with private‑sector group UTECA. RTVE bought the rights for about $63 million and reported $94 million in commercial revenue last year, citing recent legal...
Canal+ Welcomes Paris Court Anti-Piracy DNS Ruling
The Paris Court of Appeal ruled that DNS providers Google, Cloudflare and Cisco must block illegal streaming services, delivering a decisive win for Canal+. The judgment validates blocking via alternative DNS as technically feasible and proportionate, extending earlier rulings that...
Unifying Hybrid Orchestration Layers
Broadcasters are moving from siloed infrastructures to unified hybrid orchestration layers that combine IP, AI, cloud and 5G to deliver story‑centric, multi‑platform live content. The shift enables remote, distributed workflows and leverages agentic AI to automate planning and execution, while...
Semillitas to Premiere Babar and the Adventures of Badou
Semillitas, the Spanish‑language children’s pay‑TV channel owned by SomosTV, will debut the animated series Babar and the Adventures of Badou on April 3, adding a 104‑episode library. The show follows Babar’s grandson Badou, delivering values‑focused stories that teach friendship, teamwork,...
NASCAR Euro Series Secures New TV Home in German‑speaking Europe Through Sportdigital Deal
The NASCAR Euro Series has signed a multi‑year broadcast partnership with German‑based Sportdigital, moving its German‑speaking market coverage (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) from Motorvision TV to Sportdigital’s premium Sportdigital1+ channel and streaming app starting in 2026. The deal includes live airings...
Blackett Joins Sky’s Diversity Advisory Council
Sky announced that Karen Blackett CBE has joined its Diversity Advisory Council, bringing extensive leadership experience from WPP UK where she oversaw a $2 billion P&L and a 13,000‑person workforce. Blackett, now a non‑executive director and brand‑transformation consultant for firms like...
Magic Light Pictures Launches Stirling Animation Studio
Magic Light Pictures has created Stirling Animation Studio (SAS) by acquiring the assets of the insolvent Wild Child Animation, ensuring continuity for its preschool series Zog. The wholly‑owned studio will complete all 52 episodes for the BBC, ZDF and Creative...
FCC OKs Cox Media-WJAX Deal
The Federal Communications Commission has approved Cox Media Group’s purchase of Hoffman Communications’ CBS affiliate WJAX in Jacksonville. Cox will assume the station’s debt and pay approximately $175,000 to Hoffman, creating a duopoly with its existing Fox/MyNetwork/Telemundo outlet WFOX. DirecTV...
Ratings
Miley Cyrus returned as Hannah Montana for a Disney+ and Hulu 20th‑anniversary special, pulling 6.3 million streams in its first three days and sparking a roughly 1,000% surge in catalog viewing. The nostalgic event underscores the power of legacy IP on...
FCC Cable Rate Report
The FCC issued an order to begin its mandatory cable‑rate report, requiring randomly selected operators to submit detailed pricing data by May 29. The questionnaire covers subscription fees, retransmission‑consent charges and related costs, with historical retrans fees averaging $30‑$350 per subscriber....
Ad-Tier for Disney+ “Coming Soon” To Australia, NZ.
Disney+ will launch an ad‑supported tier in Australia and New Zealand in the coming months, adding a “Standard with Ads” plan that streams in Full HD, offers two concurrent streams and 5.1 Stereo audio, but does not allow downloads. Pricing has not been...
Axed: DMV
U.S. broadcast network CBS announced that the workplace comedy "DMV," starring Australian actress Harriet Dyer and New Zealand actor Alex Tarrant, will conclude after its first season. The series' final episode is set for May 11, 2026, and the show...
‘SNL UK’ Loses 9% Of Audience But Still Beats Rival Networks
Saturday Night Live UK’s second episode attracted 205,000 live viewers, a 9% dip from the premiere’s 226,000. The show captured a 3.2% share of the audience and still outperformed Channel 4’s Moonfall, which drew 136,000 viewers. Sky emphasized that overnight numbers are...
Prime Video Phenomenon The Summer I Turned Pretty's Anticipated Movie Gets Update From Lead Star
Prime Video is moving "The Summer I Turned Pretty" from series to feature film, extending Belly's story beyond season three. Lead actress Lola Tung told Variety that showrunner and author Jenny Han is already brainstorming ideas and drafting a script. Tung hinted...