Talk about events moving fast. Not long after Colin and I recorded and posted this week’s podcast about the Disney-Fubo deal from earlier this week, the three Venu Sports JV partners said they were cancelling the service.

At the end of the podcast we cautioned that with DirecTV and EchoStar raising the possibility of a renewed Venu litigation, the JV partners might have second thoughts. Given the new twist this week’s Inside the Stream is kind of optional listening. Sometimes it’s hard to keep up!

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Happy New Year and welcome to the first podcast of 2025. We’re pleased to have PBS’s Chief Digital and Marketing Officer Ira Rubenstein join us to discuss PBS’s recent partnership with Amazon. Under the deal more than 150 local PBS stations and the PBS Kids channel will be included in the Prime Video FAST section. Two new PBS FAST channels will also be included.

Ira explains how the Amazon deal keeps PBS accessible for those who have cut the cord, don’t have an antenna, etc. PBS is also talking to other potential partners, especially those who can support donations and benefit PBS stations. Beyond the Amazon deal, Ira also shares his thoughts on the broader industry and key changes he’s paying attention to.

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This week Antenna’s Co-Founder and CEO Jonathan Carson joins us for an exclusive interview to discuss the firm’s top streaming insights from 2024. Antenna’s research has become a go-to source of data for executives from around the industry. 

In the interview we dive into a number of findings, including the shift in subscriber growth from paid to ad-supported streaming services, how sports and live events provided the top subscriber acquisition moments in 2024, the role of sports in driving virtual pay-TV operators’ growth and  which promotions worked best for new sign-ups.

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