Mansha Daswani

Over the next five years, the number of U.S. pay-TV subscribing households will fall by 10.8 million to reach 82.3 million in 2021, according to new projections from Kagan.

RLJ Entertainment, the parent company of Acorn TV and Urban Movie Channel, has expanded its strategic relationship with AMC Networks in order to be able to invest more in content.

PwC's latest Deals Insights report for the U.S. entertainment, media and communications sector expects merger and acquisition activity to remain robust, despite regulatory uncertainties and a tightening of investment from China.

Netflix is still the most dominant OTT platform in the U.S., comScore reports, but market competition is intensifying, with 11 services now reaching more than 1 million or more homes every month.

ITV Studios has secured a 45-percent interest in Jason Blum's Blumhouse Television, which is prepping a Roger Ailes limited series for Showtime.

Kagan says the number of U.S. homes that have broadband but no traditional multichannel video package rose by 2 million in 2016.

STAMFORD: The 2018 Winter Olympics from PyeongChang, South Korea, will be broadcast on NBC live across all time zones.

Almost half of U.S. consumers subscribe to a paid streaming video service, according to Deloitte's 11th Digital Democracy Survey, which also found that 66 percent of pay-TV customers keep that service because it comes bundled with an internet offering.

Almost 40 percent of U.S. consumers are unconcerned about the financial cost of piracy to the media business, and nearly one-third admit to watching pirated content, according to a new survey from Irdeto.

BEVERLY HILLS: C. Scot Cru and Patrice Choghi, formerly with Mark Burnett Productions, have aligned with producer Robert Bauer for a new venture focused on providing production, distribution and financing opportunities for independent producers worldwide.