Disney+ has dropped a teaser trailer for BTS Monuments: Beyond The Star, an eight-part documentary series about the global K-pop superstars, as well as announcing a launch date of December 20.
02.11.2023 - 22:27 / deadline.com
Paramount CEO Bob Bakish has long touted “hard bundles,” the hybrid carriage agreements found in Europe and other international markets that weave streaming into conventional pay-TV packages.
The new Disney–Charter pact, reached in September after a 10-day blackout of ESPN, ABC stations and multiple other Disney networks, could provide a domestic template for Paramount, according to Bakish.
Recent dealmaking raises questions about “whether the hard bundling of streaming and pay-TV will become the norm in the U.S., and what that could mean for companies like ours,” Bakish told Wall Street analysts on the company’s third quarter earnings call. “The reality is, operators have different priorities. But we’ve shown that we can adapt our partnerships to adapt common objectives.”
In its international hard-bundling, Bakish said, Paramount has experienced “dramatically lower” costs to acquire customers along with lower rates of churn. Imported to the U.S., they could be “additive,” he said, widening opportunities for advertising and enabling the “upselling” of customers from Paramount+ to Paramount+ With Showtime. Prior to becoming CEO in 2015, Bakish spent a significant chunk of his career at Viacom (which merged with CBS in 2019 to form Paramount) as an international executive based outside the U.S.
Paramount+ increased to 63 million global subscribers by the September 30 end of the quarter as Paramount topped Street estimates.
With pay-TV subscriber levels dropping by millions each year, many operators are bristling at the notion of paying ever-increasing carriage fees and then charging customers more, thus accelerating the pace of cord-cutting. The ultimate Disney-Charter deal incorporates Disney+ into many of Charter’s
Disney+ has dropped a teaser trailer for BTS Monuments: Beyond The Star, an eight-part documentary series about the global K-pop superstars, as well as announcing a launch date of December 20.
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