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  1. #Disney announces that it will no longer report #streaming #subscriber stats to investors for its #subscriptionTV services including #Hulu and #ESPN+, following the announcement that it's also ending pioneering standalone streaming brand Hulu, a former joint venture with #Comcast that is now going to be #PhasedOut with content folded into the Disney+ brand

    Ironically, a similar move by #Discovery after acquiring and killing off the #HBOMax brand to call itself simply #Max has seen Warner Bros buyer David Zaslav's money losing meddlers relaunch and rebrand their #StreamingApp with the trusted old name again. The HBO Max tile returned this summer to devices a few years after ill advisedly offing the time tested #HomeBoxOffice media brand-name, which apparently only led to creating consumer confusion and blowback. Chairman #Zaslav apparently felt the legacy premium subscription service HBO name was a "hindrance" according to #Bloomberg but he has finally relented and backtracked from believing his own B.S after angry shareholders seethed, and one Redditor recently compared the costly corporate gaffe "as if Coke Zero had decided to rebrand as Zero..."

    variety.com/2025/digital/news/ #BrandRecognition #JointVentures

    vulture.com/article/why-max-is

    bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

    androidpolice.com/max-re-rebra

    #TV #MediaIndustry #Entertainment

  2. #Disney announces that it will no longer report #streaming #subscriber stats to investors for its #subscriptionTV services including #Hulu and #ESPN+, following the announcement that it's also ending pioneering standalone streaming brand Hulu, a former joint venture with #Comcast that is now going to be #PhasedOut with content folded into the Disney+ brand

    Ironically, a similar move by #Discovery after acquiring and killing off the #HBOMax brand to call itself simply #Max has seen Warner Bros buyer David Zaslav's money losing meddlers relaunch and rebrand their #StreamingApp with the trusted old name again. The HBO Max tile returned this summer to devices a few years after ill advisedly offing the time tested #HomeBoxOffice media brand-name, which apparently only led to creating consumer confusion and blowback. Chairman #Zaslav apparently felt the legacy premium subscription service HBO name was a "hindrance" according to #Bloomberg but he has finally relented and backtracked from believing his own B.S after angry shareholders seethed, and one Redditor recently compared the costly corporate gaffe "as if Coke Zero had decided to rebrand as Zero..."

    variety.com/2025/digital/news/ #BrandRecognition #JointVentures

    vulture.com/article/why-max-is

    bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

    androidpolice.com/max-re-rebra

    #TV #MediaIndustry #Entertainment

  3. After watching the video feed from wonderful 135th annual #RoseParade from #Pasadena I realize the #RoseBowl broadcast wasn't offered without an #ESPN subscription. So 2 minutes before kickoff I bought an ESPN+ #StreamingApp membership. Then I was told I could still not watch the #telecast game without a verified #cableTV subscription. Then I found a weird #workaround, I found an alternative login to the game through something called #HometownCall #MegaCast on #ESPN3 which uses local #radio announcers and makes me watch the game with one third of the split screen taken up by a live shot of either #SEC champ #CrimsonTide coach #NickSaban or the previously suspended by #NCAA #Big10 #Michigan's cheating coach #Harbaugh pacing the sidelines and yelling into their headsets.
    The #Halftime Show is starting with Alabama's 400 member #MillionDollar #MarchingBand ... Oh #SportsBall how you confuse & amuse me...

  4. After watching the video feed from wonderful 135th annual #RoseParade from #Pasadena I realize the #RoseBowl broadcast wasn't offered without an #ESPN subscription. So 2 minutes before kickoff I bought an ESPN+ #StreamingApp membership. Then I was told I could still not watch the #telecast game without a verified #cableTV subscription. Then I found a weird #workaround, I found an alternative login to the game through something called #HometownCall #MegaCast on #ESPN3 which uses local #radio announcers and makes me watch the game with one third of the split screen taken up by a live shot of either #SEC champ #CrimsonTide coach #NickSaban or the previously suspended by #NCAA #Big10 #Michigan's cheating coach #Harbaugh pacing the sidelines and yelling into their headsets.
    The #Halftime Show is starting with Alabama's 400 member #MillionDollar #MarchingBand ... Oh #SportsBall how you confuse & amuse me...

  5. After watching the video feed from wonderful 135th annual #RoseParade from #Pasadena I realize the #RoseBowl broadcast wasn't offered without an #ESPN subscription. So 2 minutes before kickoff I bought an ESPN+ #StreamingApp membership. Then I was told I could still not watch the #telecast game without a verified #cableTV subscription. Then I found a weird #workaround, I found an alternative login to the game through something called #HometownCall #MegaCast on #ESPN3 which uses local #radio announcers and makes me watch the game with one third of the split screen taken up by a live shot of either #SEC champ #CrimsonTide coach #NickSaban or the previously suspended by #NCAA #Big10 #Michigan's cheating coach #Harbaugh pacing the sidelines and yelling into their headsets.
    The #Halftime Show is starting with Alabama's 400 member #MillionDollar #MarchingBand ... Oh #SportsBall how you confuse & amuse me...