Hulu is phasing in a significant rate hike for its skinny-bundle live TV service, to $44.99 a month from $39.99, but at the same time will lower the price of its signature SVOD offering to $5.99 from $7.99. The ad-free version of Hulu’s SVOD service will remain $11.99 a month. The new pricing scheme will go into…

Turner president David Levy picked perhaps the perfect venue, Las Vegas, to offer his bullish predictions about the future of sports betting. A pivotal U.S. Supreme Court decision last May opened the door to legalized sports betting in most states, so sports fans no longer have to travel to Las Vegas to wager on March…

Viacom CEO Bob Bakish said two major technological trends on display at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas will fuel will the entertainment industry’s future growth: 5G wireless broadband and autonomous vehicles. “They're coming like a freight train and they're fundamentally good,” Bakish said in remarks at…

Overall home entertainment spending by U.S. consumers climbed 11.5% in 2018 to a record $23.3 billion, according to the Digital Entertainment Group, an industry consortium. Announcing the preliminary annual figures during CES, the DEG noted an especially strong fourth quarter, when spending increased 13% to $6.3…

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has canceled his trip to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this year because of the partial government shutdown, according to reports. Pai had been scheduled speak at the confab Tuesday about the changing technological landscape. That event has been removed from the trade show’s…

Up until now, virtual reality headsets have had all the sex appeal of a pocket protector. Nerds only need apply. But Samsung found a way to give the digital equivalent of horse blinders some serious sizzle. The Samsung Galaxy Experience Zone, in the main lobby of the Las Vegas Convention Center, took attendees of this…

Fox Innovation Labs guru Danny Kaye has been peering into the future of home entertainment since long before “high definition TV” was a living room fixture and virtual reality existed as a setting in the science fiction film Tron, not a product sold at the local Best Buy. As Kaye attends his 17th Consumer Electronics…

Hollywood’s merger mania got its closeup at the Consumer Electronics Show, as Turner CEO John Martin and Hulu’s Randy Freer talked about the big pending deals that would reshape the media landscape. Martin responded gingerly to questions about the Justice Department’s lawsuit challenging the pending AT&T-Time Warner…

2ND UPDATE, 2:50 PM:  Heavy overnight rains caused the power outage at the Consumer Electronics Show, according to a new statement from the Consumer Technology Association. Here’s the full statement: “Today at approximately 11:15 AM, the Central Hall and South Hall bridge meeting rooms at the Las Vegas Convention…

Twentieth Century Fox’s games and virtual reality division FoxNext used the global stage of the Consumer Electronics Show to offer a sneak preview of Isle of Dogs Behind The Scenes (in Virtual Reality), an experience to screen in full at the New Frontier at Sundance. The VR experience takes audiences inside the…

LionTreeFounder and Chief Executive Aryeh B. Bourkoff said Hollywood is poised for a new Golden Age. “We think it's the Golden Age of mergers and acquisitions,” Bourkoff said in a keynote address today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Bourkoff, whose investment banking firm has advised clients on over…

Speculation about Oprah Winfrey’s presidential aspirations for 2020 reached the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas today, as it led off this morning’s CES keynote about the future of video. Before the discussion got underway, LionTree CEO Aryeh B. Bourkoff noted that fellow panelist David Zaslav, the president of…