Hamilton radio station pointed to financial losses as major reason behind closure.

Over 20 years of history is gone.

Proper content plays a crucial role in the overall performance of a website. It helps you rank on the SERP. It lets you convince your audience to become customers.

As of Thursday, Hollywood is officially closed for business. The national board of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, or SAG-AFTRA, “unanimously voted to issue a strike order against the studios and streamers,” the guild announced at a news conference Thursday afternoon.

Roku is getting its first voice-activated game: a version of enduring TV hit “Jeopardy!” The game was developed by Volley, a creator of voice-enabled AI games, for the Roku platform. To play the “Jeopardy!” game on Roku, players respond to clues with their voice — just like the actual contestants on the game show.

The desire to replace writers with AI is a symptom of the larger problem that the guild is fighting for—which is that companies do not value writers and their work.

The streaming industry has been facing a reckoning for a while. This week, it hit.

We’ve noted repeatedly that as the streaming sector grows and consolidates, it’s revealing many of the same problems we saw inherent in traditional, shitty, cable TV. As in the need to …

The Hollywood writers’ strike continues, and with each day more people in the film industry lend their voices to the call to reach a reasonable settlement. Just yesterday we reported on The Sandman creator Neil Gaiman hitting the picket lines and laying into the practice of mini-rooms, where writers are brought in for a few weeks to outline and script a series before being shut out of the rest of the production process.

Netflix has hired Terminator, Predator, and Jingle All the Way star Arnold Schwarzenegger as its chief action officer. Announced in a promotional video on Netflix's YouTube, Schwarzenegger can be seen arriving at the streaming giant's headquarters in a tank. "No one loves action as much as I do," he said in the video. "That's why I've accepted the big new job as Netflix's chief action officer."

Hollywood backstabbing, conspiracy theories, and the devastating murder of a star behind the TV alien-invasion sensation.

At this point in the streaming wars, bundling, rather than M&A, is back in the spotlight. During a May 18 investor conference, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav was asked whether he would be interested in exploring a sports- and news-led “skinnier bundle” with content from the streamers.

"When I sold all the scripts I sold ... I didn't sell them so that they could be thrown into a computer with other people's and be used again by a corporation," 'The Wire' writer said.

Entertainment writers are striking coast to coast. The clever signs they’re holding up on the picket lines (“Don’t pay us peanuts to write ‘Billions’”) are often as creative as their work. Every three years, the Writers Guild of America, the TV and film writers’ union, negotiates a contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. It’s intended to cover issues such as minimum pay for various projects, health insurance and workplace safety.

The writers strike of 2023 is on. Now that the die has been cast, there’s one question on everyone’s lips: Who can ride out the storm? VIP+ has conducted an analysis of the leading U.S. TV and streaming entertainment companies to assess how reliant they are on scripted content, which is most vulnerable to being disrupted by a strike. We examined the volume of scripted comedy and drama the companies program versus more secure unscripted genres, including documentaries, true crime, reality, pop culture and lifestyle.

Chief executive Jonah Peretti says in company-wide email BuzzFeed ‘can no longer continue to fund BuzzFeed News’

Amongst the billion weird things people are addicted to, Reality TV can be one of the most dangerous. More often than not, claims of these shows are nothing but empty promises and lies of a nonexistent “reality”. The take over is widespread and goes beyond a single theme. From celebrity shows like The Kardashians to storylines that just don’t make sense like Survivor.

Peacock has added another 3 million paid users since early October and now touts 18 million subscribers, double the 9 million with which it finished 2021, NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell told investors Monday morning. “That’s real subscribers paying us real American dollars,” Shell told the UBS TMT Conference.