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...Netflix has agreed a $5bn deal to screen World Wrestling Entertainment’s flagship Raw programme in the US over the next decade, in the group’s biggest foray so far into streaming live events....
...The price is a steep increase over Raw’s current deal with Comcast’s USA Network. More importantly, this marks Netflix’s plunge into pricey live programming, an area it had long eschewed....
...Two years ago, when mapping out plans for its big streaming push, Disney’s internal research predicted that bundling together its entertainment services — Disney Plus and Hulu — would attract the most subscribers...
...But this new executive lives in the USA. I look forward to hearing from him. Under oath.”...
...A year on and the Jacksonville-based organisation is proving a worthy opponent to industry behemoth World Wrestling Entertainment....
...The shutdown has already brought casualties: MSK Zilina, seven-time football champions of Slovakia, and USA Rugby, the sport’s national governing body, are among those to declare bankruptcy in recent days...
...“Dull, dreary and dubiously written,” declared USA Today. A “disappointing creation”, said Entertainment Weekly....
...In addition to WWE Network and pay-per-view, events are broadcast on Comcast-owned USA Network and, beginning later this year, Fox....
...This was at Disney California Adventure, a newish sister park next door, where the Monsters, Inc. gang and other Pixar characters have taken up residence....
...Remitly's existing investors include Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, global internet and entertainment group Naspers as well as venture capital firms DFJ and DN Capital....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on September 13, 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...For example, we expect cable operators Charter and Altice USA to launch MVNO-based wireless services over the next 2-4 quarters, and for Verizon to launch residential broadband services using 5G wireless...
...It should enable the rollout of fleets of autonomous vehicles, mission-critical industrial applications and new entertainment services....
...The company’s announcement sparked a sell-off in its shares and those of competitors including Comcast, Charter, Dish and Altice USA....
...The company said it will begin rolling out a new “home entertainment hub” in the US next week, replacing traditional cable boxes, modems and routers with a cloud-based service that combines its video, broadband...
...It also owns the Miss Universe and Miss USA beauty pageants, Global eSports Management and Professional Bull Riders....
...“Tightening legislation in the USA has certainly made the UK a more attractive market,” says Mr Walker. “Touts are using international borders to obfuscate their activities.”...
...In the UK, rival newspapers are teaming up on joint advertising sales operations while the trend towards consolidation continues in the US, where Gannett, the owner of USA Today, recently attempted to buy...
...This was borne out at the Emmys when Rami Malek won the best actor award for his role in Mr Robot, which airs on NBCUniversal’s USA Network — a channel which had not previously been known as a home of top...
...In the ensuing years, Mr Trump kept a hand in entertainment through his three casinos at Atlantic City, New Jersey....
...In many ways the intersection of entertainment and marketing to kids is not new; companies like Walt Disney have long excelled in merchandising their most successful brands....
...The second regulatory concern stems from the spectacular growth of online video services as more Americans turn to them for entertainment and news....
...— a newspaper publisher and an entertainment group....
...The New York Times parted company with 20 reporters and editors at the end of 2014, as did USA Today, which laid off as many as 70 reporters and editors....
...Carl Icahn, the activist investor, is stepping up pressure on Gannett, saying he will nominate two directors to the board of the USA Today publisher and proposing measures to prevent it from installing defences...
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