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The memo arrived out of the blue. On Jan. 22, NBC Sports Group chairman Pete Bevacqua told employees that NBC Sports Network, a cable channel launched in 1995 and available in some 80 million U.S. homes, would shut down by the end of this year. The major sporting events that ran on the channel, including NHL hockey games and NASCAR races, would move to Peacock, NBCUniversal’s new streaming service, and USA Network, the company’s largest cable channel. But while NBCU may be the first company to make the difficult choice to shut down one of its widely distributed channels in 2021, it won’t be the last. Over the coming months and years, every major entertainment giant will face the dilemma. “I think that you are going to see consolidation taking…
After a year in which COVID-19 stay-at-home orders limited options for consumers, giving a boost to streamers like Netflix and Disney+, 2021 may see subscriber churn become a bigger issue amid reopenings. Last May, 14 percent of respondents to a Deloitte Insights survey said they had “canceled” or both “added and canceled” a paid streamer. That churn rate jumped to 38 percent in October and kept up at 36 percent in February, per a Deloitte report on April 19. Some services took a larger hit than others. As of the fourth quarter of 2020, Apple TV+ had the highest churn rate of major streamers, with a 15.6 percent monthly cancellation rate (excluding free trials ending and credit card expirations), per analytics startup Antenna. Peacock, which launched July 15, saw the…
The 93rd Academy Awards, produced by Steven Soderbergh, Jesse Collins and Stacey Sher, slumped to their smallest TV audience ever. But the April 25 show was hardly alone this awards season in achieving that dubious milestone. The 10.4 million viewers for ABC’s Oscars telecast — a 56 percent drop from 2020 — were in keeping with a host of other awards broadcasts over the past seven months. The Primetime Emmys and Grammys also hit all-time lows, and the Golden Globes slid to its smallest viewership since airing on TBS in the early 1990s. Collectively, the four biggest awards shows — the Emmys, Globes, Grammys and Oscars — suffered an average drop of 45 percent. The Emmys fared the best, losing only 9 percent of its 2019 audience (albeit from a…
Caitlyn Jenner might not be Hollywood royalty, but the former Olympic gold medalist, who also sired household names like Kylie and Kendall, is the biggest celebrity so far to unveil a run in California’s recall election. Recall backers have submitted 1,626,042 valid signatures, surpassing the 1,495,709 threshold needed to trigger a special election, the secretary of state’s office disclosed April 26. But don’t expect the entertainment industry to rally for Jenner if the election indeed is held this fall. The candidate has surrounded herself with aides to former President Donald Trump — a gambit that will cost her any serious support from Hollywood’s deep bench of largely left-wing donors. The team advising Jenner reportedly includes Trump’s former campaign manager Brad Parscale and GOP fundraiser Caroline Wren, who worked for Trump’s…
The Chateau Marmont, which has prided itself on being a favorite hangout for industry insiders, now finds itself on the outs with Hollywood. Over the past year, its employees have lashed out at the storied Sunset Boulevard hotel, first over their treatment when laid off at the onset of the pandemic, and later — breaking the hospitality industry’s strict code of silence — speaking out about what they claim is a pervasive institutional culture of racial discrimination and sexual misconduct. They blame the Chateau’s owner, hotelier André Balazs, who himself has been accused of racist hiring preferences and unwanted touching. (He denies all claims.) Several Black employees have filed lawsuits against the Chateau following a September THR story into the hotel’s workplace. In the latest civil claim, filed April 26…
