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UPDATED with new pricing, Fubo statement on WarnerMedia. A week after filling in a major gap in its network portfolio by signing a carriage deal with Disney, FuboTV is raising its prices and saying goodbye to 11 WarnerMedia channels, including TNT, CNN and Cartoon Network. As of 12:01AM ET on Wednesday, TNT, TBS, CNN…

Continuing a steady escalation of prices by the pay-TV packages formerly known as “skinny bundles,” YouTube TV has announced a price hike to $64.99 a month, an eye-opening increase of $15. The new price, outlined in a blog post, takes effect Tuesday for new subscribers. Those currently paying for YouTube TV, which…

Philo, the non-sports streaming TV bundle, is adding Epix and Starz to its lineup with three months of discounted rates. Customers will be able to get Epix for $6 per month, with a promotion dropping the price to $3 per month for the first three months. Starz will be $9 a month, or $5 under the three-month promotion…

YouTube and ViacomCBS have revealed an expanded, multi-year distribution deal that will add 14 new networks to the tech giant’s YouTube TV service. The agreement will keep CBS broadcast stations, CBS Sports Network, Pop TV, Smithsonian Channel and The CW on the bundle and also add BET, CMT, Comedy Central, MTV…

Hulu + Live TV, which launched in 2017 and steadily become the No. 1 “skinny bundle” service, is about to cost a lot more soon. The company has announced a $10-a-month price hike of its basic monthly rate to $54.99 a month, from $44.99 a month, a 22% increase. “The new price better reflects the substantial value of…

Sony said Tuesday it plans to shut down its PlayStation Vue skinny-bundle TV service in order to refocus on its core videogame business. The end of the line will come next January 30. Viewers of films and TV programming can continue to access them via the PlayStation Store and through partner apps. Sony is getting set…

Discovery and FuboTV have announced a new, multi-year carriage agreement that will bring 13 Discovery networks to Fubo’s streaming service in the coming weeks. The deal extends the relationship between the companies that dates back before the 2018 acquisition of Scripps Networks Interactive by Discovery. The prior…

YouTube and Verizon have minted a distribution deal that will cross-promote both the telecom giant’s offerings, including 5G and broadband, and the internet-delivered pay-TV service. Under the deal, Verizon will offer promotions on YouTube TV to customers regardless of the service they get. A Verizon spokesperson…

FuboTV, a smaller but growing player in the virtual MVPD (aka skinny bundle) space, has set price increases that make its base subscription package $54.99 a month, $10 more than before. The company cited “the addition of popular channels over the past year,” including AMC, Cartoon Network, CNN, TBS and TNT, noting it…

Sony’s PlayStation Vue is expanding its “multi-view” feature, which already available on PlayStation 4, to Apple TV subscribers of the streaming service. The Vue skinny bundle, which was among the first lower-cost, internet-delivered TV players when it launched in 2015. Multi-view which was added two years ago on the…

UPDATED with closing stock prices. The stocks of cable programmers Discovery, AMC Networks and Viacom have all dropped between 3%-4% today despite broader-market gains as investors process the news that their networks are caught in the shuffle at DirecTV Now. After reports in recent days pointed to changes, AT&T’s…

With TV antenna use booming, skinny bundles gaining traction and subscription streaming still on the upswing, new findings from Nielsen offer some eye-opening statistics showing how viewers are getting TV programming outside of the traditional pay bundle. While about 89 million U.S. households still subscribe to…