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Silicon Valley is going all-in for so-called “cord cutting,” as 65 percent of Internet users worldwide watched some type of streaming video-on-demand last month.

ESPN, the left-wing sports network that has hemorrhaged 7 million subscribers in just two years, which translates into $1.3 billion in lost revenue, is floating the idea of throwing in the towel on the issue of streaming. Disney CEO Bob

Streaming video and audio now accounting for 70 percent of internet usage within North American homes during the peak evening period, according to a new report from Sandvine.

According to the left-wing cable news network, CNN, with the announcement that it is closing its Grantland website, ESPN is “getting out of the pop culture business.” This is probably a head-fake on ESPN’s part. For years the sports network

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is needlessly chucking time and money away by playing “whack a mole” with foreign IP addresses that are created by Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) in a bid to stop those who haven’t paid the licence

Thanks to investments in original programming, with popular shows such as Orange is the New Black and House of Cards, Netflix added 2.5 million new subscribers in the second quarter of 2015.

Over Christmas, for less than eight bucks a pop, I purchased “Gravity,” “The Conjuring,” Man of Steel,” “Riddick,” and the new “Godzilla” reboot on Bluray. With all of those titles came a free digital copy that is currently stored on

The most important detail in this Wall Street Journal story is that Apple has been attempting to put together a slimmed down streaming bundle for years. The proposal went nowhere because it was “considered radical and failed to bear fruit.”

The end is nigh for the Hollywood affirmative action racket known as bundled cable and satellite television. Customers aren’t yet cancelling their overpriced bundled TV packages by double digits. That reality, though, can’t be far behind. People inevitably figure out

Even with a growing American population the number of subscribers to bundled cable and satellite television is declining. Not by huge numbers. One-hundred million homes are still being conned into making left-wing multinationals rich and subsidizing low-rated networks like CNN.

Following the lead of CBS, HBO and Showtime, Nickelodeon CEO Philippe Dauman announced this week that he will launch the Nickelodeon network outside of a pay television subscription. As of now, if you want to watch Nickelodeon, you are required

A new poll shows that only 46% of respondents watch what’s known as linear television, or live television as it airs. As supplements to television, a majority of the 4709 polled have added DVR-watching and streaming services of various kinds.

On top of obnoxiously high prices, a big reason people (especially Millennials) are fleeing to Streaming, is the obnoxious number of commercials that disrupt/infect/pummel every cable television show. Nevertheless, in order to make up for declining viewership, desperate cable networks

Variety’s Todd Spangler has this mostly right. Dish Network’s Sling TV, a bundled streaming package of cable channels priced at $20 per month, is no game changer. At least I hope not (for reasons I’ll explain below). The willingness of