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☆ Cable TV's collapse deepens: 'It is becoming increasingly clear that there is no longer any floor'
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-03 | by ( Peter Kafka | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Pay-TV distributors — that's conventional cable guys like Comcast, satellite-TV outfits like DirecTV, and digital alternatives like YouTube TV — lost 1.6 million subscribers in the second quarter of 2024, according to analysts at MoffettNathanson. But not as bad as other Q2s, like in 2023, when the industry lost 1.7 million subscribers, or in 2022, when it lost 1.8 million subs. And in other good news for the TV industry … well, that's about it. That's why YouTube TV lost subscribers for the first time in the first quarter, and added only 50,000 subscribers in the second.

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☆ Wyoming reporter caught using artificial intelligence to create fake quotes and stories
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-14 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Ap-Live-Blog-Byline-Image.Png | The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

“The 2024 Cody Stampede Parade promises to be an unforgettable celebration of American independence, led by one of comedy’s most beloved figures,” the Cody Enterprise reported. In an editorial published Monday, Enterprise Editor Chris Bacon said he “failed to catch” the AI copy and false quotes. “It matters not that the false quotes were the apparent error of a hurried rookie reporter that trusted AI. It was my job,” Bacon wrote. Another story — about a poaching sentencing — included quotes from a wildlife official and a prosecutor that sounded like they came from a news release, Baker said.

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☆ Suddenly, there's real competition for broadband internet
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-14 | by ( Peter Kafka | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AdvertisementThere are some people who really, really like Super Bowl ads. I’ve heard for years about the idea that wireless carriers would eventually take on the big broadband companies by selling “fixed wireless” broadband — broadband you can get via 5G airwaves using a box you put in your window instead of relying on cables buried in the ground. If I were, I would know that competition from fixed wireless has been keeping the broadband guys up at night for some time. The broadband guys are happy to tell you why they think their internet is better than the wireless internet the telco guys are selling. But for the moment, we know the cable guys — that is, the broadband guys — are no longer taking the fixed wireless guys for granted.

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☆ New sports streamer will change TV as we know it — and may start an industry fight. Execs tell me what they really think.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-07 | by ( Peter Kafka | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

The new sports streamer that Disney, Warner Bros., and Fox announced Tuesday is a really big deal that could reshape TV . And then they charge the big pay TV distributors a ton to carry their broadcasts of those games. Which may explain why, up until Tuesday, they hadn't told any of the pay TV companies or sports leagues about their plans, industry executives tell me. But if you're the kind of person who's buying an antenna to watch sports TV, you're not going to buy this thing anyway.) Also: The big TV guys didn't like it in 2015 when HBO started competing with them by selling itself as a stand-alone service.

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☆ I was shocked at how many one-star ratings I have on Uber — here's how to see yours
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Todd Haselton | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

When you take an Uber ride, you get to rate your driver — but your driver also gets to rate you as a rider. You may already know how to view your average Uber rating as a rider. You can see exactly how many one-star, two-star, three-star, four-star and five-star reviews drivers have given you. So, I was surprised to see I'd received six one-star ratings on the app. Having 21 four-star ratings was also a bit surprising, especially since I try to give drivers five stars all the time.

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One of the really interesting questions here – this will be fascinating – the core of linear TV is sports rights. When you look at the size and scope of the linear TV business, it's huge. Patrick T. Fallon | Afp | Getty ImagesByron Allen, Entertainment Studios founder and CEO: I think linear TV will exist for a very, very long time. Simmons: I believe Apple, out of nowhere, will start making their own awesome televisions that have Apple TV embedded in them. We are witnessing early stages of this dynamic with deals like "NFL Sunday Ticket" on YouTube and the MLS deal with Apple TV.

☆ 27 of the highest-paid movie roles of all time, including Tom Cruise's massive pay day for 'Top Gun: Maverick'
▼ + stars: | 2021-08-19 | by ( Travis Clark | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

But Tom Cruise still got maybe the biggest payday for an actor ever the old fashioned way this year. Stars like Will Smith, Tom Cruise, and Jim Carrey were paid big bucks in the 1990s because they attracted a crowd. For instance, Dwayne Johnson is being paid $50 million for the Amazon action holiday movie movie "Red One," which includes a back-end buyout, according to Variety. Insider ranked the highest-paid movie roles of all time that earned the actors more than $25 million. Below are 27 of the highest paid movie roles of all time, ranked:

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