Keyword: Disney

Disney is using its D23 fan expo to announce lots of details about its upcoming Disney+ streaming video service, which will throw in 4K content and up to 4 simultaneous streams at no extra cost.

Disney’s service will ship apps for almost every other streaming-media platform except Amazon.

When Charter and Disney earlier this week announced their new carriage agreement, they included news about cooperatively working against video piracy, which could mean more aggressively targeting password sharing.

A cord-cutting catastrophe struck the U.S. pay TV industry in the second quarter and took a collective 1.53 million subscribers with it. Or maybe not, but it’s hard to know for sure without data from two of the biggest streaming TV services.

Charter and Disney today renewed their content distribution agreement, averting a possible channel blackout. The routine carriage deal announcement included some interesting information.

Pitting Netflix against Disney in a good old-fashioned donnybrook for the U.S. streaming market is good fun, but not a realistic depiction of the industry. At least, not until the Disney+ bundle showed up.

Social media conversation exploded this week when Disney announced its $12.99/month bundle of Disney+, ESPN+ and Hulu with ads.

Disney confirmed today its plans to sell its three streaming video services – Hulu, ESPN+ and the upcoming Disney+ - bundled together for $12.99 per month in the U.S.

Hulu said that more than half of its viewers are either light- or non-viewers of linear TV, and that its cordless audience is growing, reaching 21 million cordless ad-supported viewers.

The major networks have filed a lawsuit against free broadcast streaming service Locast, alleging the service infringes upon exclusive rights under the Copyright Act.