Scott Porch
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Savannah, GA, United States
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How to Watch TV: Amazon Freevee Is a Great Place to Start
“How to Watch TV” is a new Decider column about how to get the most from your TV experience. → Read More
Great News! CNN+ Looks to Be a Less Shouty, Ad-Free CNN
CNN+ opens directly within the CNN app and distinguishes itself visually from the rest of the app with a darker background, a cleaner interface, and no display advertising. → Read More
ViacomCBS Needs To Start Streaming Showtime Originals on Paramount+
“Viacom has BET+, they have Showtime, they have Paramount+, and they have their free service, Pluto TV. That’s a lot of services.” → Read More
XClass TV Radically Simplifies Streaming In Your Living Room
The Hisense XClass TVs make watching TV a simpler, more intuitive experience. → Read More
Redbox Sees an Untapped Streaming Market In Its 39 Million Kiosk Users
Redbox CEO Galen Smith has a unique sell: Come for the Blu-rays, stay for the streaming. → Read More
Why AT&T and Discovery Think Bigger is Better for Streaming
The new combination of WarnerMedia and Discovery Networks will have projected global revenues of $52 billion a year, which will make it twice the size of Netflix. → Read More
A Year After Launch, HBO Max Powers Up Its Big Franchises for Global Expansion
HBO Max's three biggest opening-weekend movies are all theatrical blockbusters: Wonder Woman 1984, Godzilla vs. Kong, and Mortal Kombat. → Read More
Bloomberg Expanding Its Quicktake Streamer to Documentary and Celebrity Shows
Bloomberg Quicktake is planning a primetime lineup of business-focused, celebrity-hosted shows that will bring a business focus to sports, tech and lifestyle programming. → Read More
Wouldn’t It Be Great If Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+ Were One Service?
“It's ridiculous that Disney has so many different apps, and unifying them certainly makes sense,” LightShed Partners media analyst Rich Greenfield says. → Read More
Google TV Is Now the Best TV Platform. Period.
Google TV is now a full-blown TV platform that's competing with Amazon, Roku, and Samsung for a spot in your living room. → Read More
Reality TV Franchises Liven Up Discovery+, Paramount+, and Peacock
Discovery+, Paramount+ and Peacock figure to become the dominant streaming outlets in the reality TV genre. → Read More
Kill the Senate Filibuster or Watch Biden’s Agenda Die
Don’t count on a sudden wave of bipartisanship, says former Senate aide Adam Jentleson. → Read More
Peacock Makes Free TV Hard to Pass Up
With its great catalog titles, surprisingly tolerable ad loads, news and sports programming, well-executed live channels, and intuitive interface, Peacock is a best-in-class free streamer. → Read More
HBO Max Looks to Lasso Big Gains in 2021 After Stumbling Out Of The Gate
HBO Max has been hobbled by tech delays, exec changes, brand confusion and — most damaging of all — carriage disputes with Roku and Amazon. → Read More
Blame Comey First and Last for Trump Taking the White House
Think 2020 has been crazy? Read “October Surprise,” in which reporter Devlin Barrett traces the FBI’s cascade of missteps that led to the surprise election of Donald Trump. → Read More
AMC+ Is Well-Positioned To Expand Shudder’s Reach Past Spooky Season
Shudder is now available both as a standalone streamer and as part of the new AMC+. → Read More
Peacock and Roku Finally Make a Deal. What Took So Long?
This is new territory for NBCUniversal, which is taking its time to get the details right. → Read More
HBO Max Is Here. Will It Work?
The Streaming Wars will have many winners, and HBO Max looks likely to be among them. → Read More
Netflix’s Massive Subscriber Growth Proves They Have No Competition In The Business Of Making Global Hits
"Our ability to launch new brands over multiple seasons at a very high volume from all over the world has been unparalleled," quoth Ted Sarandos. → Read More
Peacock TV Raises the Bar for Free Streamers
The big thing Peacock has going for it is a very big catalog. → Read More