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Ahead Of Regional Streaming Sports Launch, Sinclair COO Is “Cautiously Optimistic” About Landing More Baseball Rights Amid “Ongoing Dialogue”
Sinclair Broadcast Group’s Rob Weisbord said he is “cautiously optimistic” about landing more Major League Baseball streaming rights despite public friction between the parties in recent months.
“There are ongoing conversations. I’m cautiously optimistic, now that they got past the lockout,” he said, alluding to MLB’s…
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‘Yellowstone’ And Other Hot Titles Push 2021 Home Entertainment Spending To Record $32.3B; PVOD Hits $525M Minus Disney+ Premier Access
Home entertainment spending (mostly streaming) posted a year-over-year increase of 8% to hit $32.3 billion in 2021, according to the Digital Entertainment Group.
The fourth quarter showed particular momentum, with overall consumer spending up more than 11% from the same period in 2020 to reach $8.6 billion. Electronic…
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Day-And-Date Streaming Is “Winning Strategy”, But Consumer Bond With Movies Is “Greater Now Than It’s Ever Been”, WarnerMedia & Universal Execs Say
Streaming has upended movie business models, but it may simply be pulling demand forward in films’ life cycles, while still allowing for fan passion and revenue generation to materialize.
That was one major takeaway from a conversation featuring Jim Wuthrich, president of home entertainment and content licensing at War…
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Home Entertainment Revenue Jumps 21% To Record $30B, Universal Reaps $500M-Plus From PVOD Per DEG 2020 Report
Cooped-up during the coronavirus pandemic, consumers spent more than $26.5 billion on digital home entertainment in 2020. Including physical discs, the tally reached $30 billion, up 21% from 2019.
The annual figures were reported by the Digital Entertainment Group, an industry consortium representing a swath of…
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ViacomCBS Distribution Boss Dan Cohen: PVOD Will Take Off Once Data Is Shared As “Replacement For Theatrical”; Showtime Dramas Keyed Broad Peacock Deal
Dan Cohen, president of global distribution for ViacomCBS, said the company is apt to do more deals like its PVOD/streaming one for the next SpongeBob SquarePants movie and a broad pact with NBCUniversal’s Peacock.
Speaking Thursday at an online conference hosted by the Digital Entertainment Group, Cohen said premium…
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Digital Entertainment Group Sets Google, Amazon, NBCUniversal And ViacomCBS Execs As Direct-To-Consumer Alliance Officers
EXCLUSIVE: The Digital Entertainment Group has appointed senior executives from NBCUniversal, ViacomCBS, Amazon Prime and Google as the officers of its newly formed D2C Alliance.
The sub-group was formed by the DEG, an industry consortium, to advocate and promote the benefits of direct-to-consumer streaming services…
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VOD And Digital Home Entertainment Sales Soared 48% To March Record – Report
Stay-at-home orders due to COVID-19 drove digital home entertainment sales to an all-time record level in March, according to the Digital Entertainment Group, a trade consortium.
Total spending on digital transactions, including electronic sell-through and video on demand, reached
$596 million, up 48% over March 2019…
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U.S. Home Entertainment Spending Rose 11.5% In 2018 To $23.3B, DEG Says
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…
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Redbox, Studios’ Frenemy, Selling Low-Cost Digital Downloads Of Disney Films
Redbox, which has battled multiple Hollywood studios in court over its rightful place in the movie ecosystem, is now selling discounted digital downloads of Disney films despite not having a formal relationship with the No. 1 studio.
Third-party sellers had previously supplied the kiosk operator with physical copies…
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Home Entertainment Spending Grew Slightly, Or Fell A Lot, In 2016: DEG
Consumer spending for home entertainment either improved slightly in 2016, or fell at an accelerating rate, depending on how you want to tally the year-end data out today from the Digital Entertainment Group.
The industry organization includes streaming services such as Netflix, but historically hasn’t included some…
Home Entertainment Spending Fell 12% In Q3 (Or Did It Grow 4%?)
Home entertainment spending in Q3 was either up 3.8% or down 12.1% — depending on how you want to interpret the numbers out today from the Digital Entertainment Group.
The trade group likes the upbeat number, which tallies consumer rental and purchase spending at $4.17 billion, up from $4.02 billion in the period last…
Fox’s Mike Dunn Named Chair Of Home Viewing Industry’s Digital Entertainment Group
Mike Dunn, the president of 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, will also become chairman of the Digital Entertainment Group, a trade association that monitors home entertainment sales by dozens of companies in the film, television and digital worlds, the association said on Wednesday.
Dunn succeeds Ron Sanders of…
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