Disney Plus will release a Hamilton special Friday that interviews the musical’s cast and director, as well as a Harvard professor to discuss the show’s historical context, coming a week after Disney’s filmed version of the Broadway hit stoked a surge of interest in Disney Plus. The special, Hamilton: History Has Its Eyes on You, features Good Morning America …
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Disney Plus mobile-app downloads jumped 72% in the US last weekend as the streaming service dropped Hamilton, the highly anticipated film version of the award-winning musical that Disney originally planned to release in theaters more than a year from now. Mobile app downloads surged 72.4% in the US on Friday through Sunday, compared with the average number of downloads during the four preceding …
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Disney Plus is no longer offering free trials to new subscribers, ending a promotion that let people test out the streaming video service for a week before paying up. A Disney spokeswoman characterized the elimination of the free trial as part of continuing tests of different offers, promotions and other marketing to widen Disney Plus. “The service was set at an attractive …
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Fox on Monday said it has completed its acquisition of Tubi, a free video-streaming service, for around $440 million. The companies announced the acquisition last month. Tubi is an ad-supported video streaming site with over 20,000 movies and TV shows. It works with more than 250 content partners, including Warner Bros. and Lionsgate. In February, the service said its monthly active users hit 25 million in …
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Live TV streaming service Sling TV has been rolling out a bunch of promotions in response to coronavirus stay-at-home orders nationwide, and the newest one could be its best yet. The company now lets new users stream every channel in its Sling Blue package for free during seven primetime hours, starting at 5 p.m. ET (2 p.m. PT) to midnight wherever you are, …
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In a typical year, late March is one of the best times of the sports calendar. You have the madness of the NCAA basketball tournament and the start of the baseball season, as the NBA and NHL seasons hit their stretch runs toward the playoffs. All of this fun and these games have been washed away in this most atypical …
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Sling TV has now added Fox News and its local affiliates (in select markets) to its free Stay in and Sling service, which is a response to the current coronavirus lockdown. Sling TV has traditionally avoided local channels in a bid to keep subscription costs low. Sling TV‘s rebrand of its existing free streaming service includes a stream of ABC News Live as …
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Fox will acquire Tubi, a free video-streaming service, for around $440 million, the companies said Tuesday. Reports of a possible acquisition began circling last month. Tubi is an ad-supported video-streaming site with over 20,000 movies and TV shows. It works with more than 250 content partners, including Warner Bros. and Lionsgate. Last month, the service said its monthly active users hit 25 million in December. …
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AT&T TV has arrived and with it, AT&T has yet another option for those looking to ditch traditional cable or satellite. It comes with an Android TV-powered box, starts at $50 per month (for the first year, but then almost doubles) and lets you find channels by using actual numbers as opposed to endlessly scrolling through a guide. But how …
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I’m not a Yankees fan (#LFGM) but I am a cord-cutter and YouTube TV subscriber, so Thursday’s news that YouTube’s live TV streaming service would stop carrying a trio of sports stations — including YES Network, home of the Yankees — didn’t hit me personally. But I know plenty of Yankees fans, some of them wonderful people, and as one …
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