TVREV Co-Founder and Lead Analyst Alan Wolk discusses the future of moviegoing with Cheddar TV’s Hena Doba

Live sports are a major draw for audiences, but that doesn’t mean every streaming service should just treat them as a savior.

Netflix’s disastrous week is almost certainly an occasion for other media companies to reconsider their online strategies. Should they plow ahead, betting everything on the streaming future, or slow down and sustain their legacy broadcast and cable operations as long as possible?

This exclusive excerpt from “Binge Times”, Dade Hayes and Dawn Chmielewski’s new book about the rush to catch up with Netflix looks at one of the earliest attempts at streaming back in 1993.

If its goal is Total World Domination, Netflix will need to run ads. Some TVREV thoughts on what that might look like.

With a muted earnings release expected Tuesday from Netflix, the drumbeat is rising for the company to consider an ad-supported tier. Can the company still be the bell cow of the streaming business?

As a service to our readers, we’re compiling all the earnings calls scheduled by the relevant companies in the streaming space.

TVREV’s Alan Wolk on Cheddar’s Closing Bell with Kristen Scholer discusses why Snap’s new Dynamic Stories feature may be the best thing to happen to the news in a long time.

An exclusive excerpt from Amanda Lotz’s new book examines the dramatic impact advertising would have on Netflix.

Jason Kilar departs WarnerMedia days after launching CNN Plus, and days before merging with Discovery. Will CNN Plus survive the merger, given the crushing debt and need for major cuts facing CEO-in-Waiting David Zaslav? Kilar says it’s not broken, don’t fix it. But the clock is ticking.

As the Motion Picture Academy starts to embracing streamed Oscar winners, maybe it’s time to embrace a streamed Oscar ceremony. The possibilities for an online awards show are vast, from prop bets, to behind-the-scenes conversations, to actually showing all those banished awards categories live.

HBO Max’s Dune grabbed 10 Oscar nominations, one of several streaming-first projects in position to win big at Sunday’s awards.

Ahead of Sunday’s Oscars, ‘Don’t Look Up’ co-creator David Sirota discusses the movie, values-based media, and the tension facing streaming news and consumers.

Parental controls further blur the lines between Disney+ and Hulu on-demand, putting the latter service at a crossroads.

The pros and cons of Warner Bros. Discovery combing HBO Max and Discovery+ under a single roof…

Verizon’s just-announced PlusPlay will aggregate easy a la carte access not just to streaming-video networks but a variety of other subscription service providers, potentially a big deal for a fractured industry and frustrated customers, while dealing another blow to the battered cable bundle.

Winning Time is about sports, for sure. But it’s more about HBO doing what it usually does successfully.

Using voice commands to control technology has gone from sci-fi to standard procedure in a very short time.  Today, 62 percent of Americans say they regularly use it with at least one device.  The most common place voice is used is with apps on smartphones. Voice control is not an emerging technology; it’s mainstream and as close as your pocket or purse. 

Just as the first Gulf War effectively birthed CNN as a global 24-hour news network, so could the Russian invasion of Ukraine provide a path to its rebirth.