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William (Bill) Mobley : Cable is dying. Streaming is the new cable. It’s all getting worse. The once unthinkable is happening for both cable TV and streaming. Washington Post - Great Read. "Welcome to the glorious, occasionally terrible and definitely weird moment when old TV is slowly dying and new “TV” is not exactly thriving, either. No matter what and how you watch, this situation isn’t awesome for your viewing pleasure or your wallet. You’re worse off as cable slowly dies As recently as about 15 years ago, about 85 to 90 percent of households in the United States paid for TV channels from a cable company or a satellite TV provider like DirecTV. That’s about as close as it gets to “everyone” in America doing something." FreeCast: It doesn' have to be like this, and it won't be for long. YouBundle what you want in your own personal media hub, plus get all the free streaming stuff, use it on all your devices, and Binge, Pause, Restart, and even Pay, all in one place. Bringing back 50%+ profits and jobs to the Entertainment Industry and big savings to consumers. Save money, enjoy more. https://lnkd.in/eFPYJvuW #NextGenStreaming #FreeCast #NoMoreAppDiving

William (Bill) Mobley: -Part 2: 300 Paramount Layoffs. Class Action Lawsuit. Big shots can't do their jobs, so employees lose theirs? This just sucks. "On Sept. 24, Paramount started “phase two” of its reductions as part of a sweeping plan to cut 15 percent of its U.S.-based workforce in pursuit of $500 million in cost savings. At the time, co-CEOs George Cheeks, Brian Robbins and Chris McCarthy said in a memo that “like the entire Media industry, we are working to accelerate streaming profitability...." https://lnkd.in/efFVMZwi #NextGenStreaming #FreeCast #NoMoreAppDiving

Join FreeCast at Broadband Nation Expo 2024!  We’re thrilled to be exhibiting at this year’s event from 10/9 to 10/11 🚀 Explore the future of broadband, discover innovative solutions, and connect with industry leaders. What to expect: 🔹 Cutting-edge insights from top experts 🔹 Network with broadband industry professionals 🔹 Visit FreeCast’s booth and learn how we’re transforming the TV experience We can’t wait to see you there! Erik Genrich Randy Krull Donovan O'Dell #FreeCast #BroadbandExpo #Networking #BroadbandInnovation #NextGenStreaming

William (Bill) Mobley: Here we go...not again, please? DirecTV CEO on Dish and Sling TV acquisition from EchoStar "Bill Morrow, DirecTV CEO, joins 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss why DirecTV completed its recent deal with EchoStar, why the antitrust view of this deal has changed, and much more." Good Read. Observation: Next up need Big Tech. Not Device tethered \(no Gemini or other STB/sticks\), yet a single middleware that gathers revenue from all devices, on all subscriptions services, channels, one solution and payment vessel. A Universal Content Marketplace that is not dependent on vMVPD or network level negotiations at all. Toss in highly advanced Hyper-targeted leads level advertising, and so much more. Then you have a consumer and MDU driven ecosystem, they seek and desire, way ahead of falling walled gardens - FreeCast https://lnkd.in/dm8\_Sv7B #NextGenStreaming #FreeCast #NoMoreAppDiving

William (Bill) Mobley: Emarketer: Consumers want commerce video ads to include product costs, demos. FreeCast: So excited, near term rollout coming out of the lab for our streaming consumers. https://lnkd.in/eSaAzz-C #NextGenStreaming #FreeCast #NoMoreAppDiving

William (Bill) Mobley: The Future Of Media Is Composable, Err On Replaceability: MediaPost, Great Read. "Businesses without a transformation plan will lose. The AI wave has shown just how ill-prepared many are to adapt. The weak link across legacy institutions and hyper-growth startups alike is their tech stacks. Organizations have become tethered to technology decisions, causing them to be dependent on their roadmap of partners who are slow to adopt innovations, which threaten to disrupt their core business. The future of technology requires agility; this is the Achilles heel of countless companies that are unable \(or unwilling\) to recognize the problem, let alone resolve it." FreeCast: Big Tech is required and integrated proven agile methods are key to success. Countless vendors, who do not build for integration are simply stupid approaches being patchworked together in hopes of a unified media ecosystem. Now Exposed...How's that working out? Aggregation or Elimination - ask Bell Telephone. Walled Gardens are Crumbling, Jobs being lost and Stock crashing...unnecessarily. FreeCast: The Next Disruptive Unicorn Transforming the Failing Media Industry, Returning 50%+ Profits, Reversing Out Billion$ of Losses “The Only Global Comprehensive, Omnichannel Streaming Entertainment Ecosystem. Built Upon the World’s Most Utilized, Proven Media, Consumer Ecommerce, Secure Cloud Infrastructure, and Hyper Targeted Data Ad Platform.” https://lnkd.in/e8mKgUjM #NextGenStreaming #FreeCast #NoMoreAppDiving

William (Bill) Mobley: "Consumers Hungry for Solutions to Streaming Hassle - With US consumers using an average of 11 different streaming services, they are desperate for help managing it all. Bundles, content hubs, and indirect buying have come to the rescue for some, as the need to tame the streaming chaos grows. The big network SVOD apps have experimented with bundling, and had some success. Consumers seem to like that it simplifies billing at least, and that was one main complaint of managing so many streaming services. Likewise, indirect buying, where consumers purchase content through a third party intermediary like Roku Channels or Amazon Channels, was also popular among about a third of those surveyed. “Content hubs” offered by bandwidth, mobile, or pay-TV providers are also growing in popularity, as they give consumers a one-stop-shop to manage various subscriptions and content from them. FreeCast's latest launch will be more of a universal content hub that anyone can use for ALL services including; - 50+ FREE Local Broadcast Channels - 500+ FREE Streaming FAST Channels - 500k+ FREE Movies/TV Shows - Largest Selection of PPV Events - "The Surprise Hub" Service launching Next Week where you Pay, Binge, Pause, Restart ALL Subscriptions, On ALL Your Devices! ... rather than being limited to those options, sticks, stbs, etc with only a select few of the right distribution deals with another provider." https://lnkd.in/gPueGuUx #NextGenStreaming #FreeCast #NoMoreAppDivingConsumers

William (Bill) Mobley: "Football Sunday - Nielsen’s Thursday Night Football Viewership Data Raises Questions Amazon and Nielsen touted a three-year deal for the TV ratings giant to include streaming viewers of Thursday Night Football via Prime Video in its ratings numbers. Now the first batch of numbers are out, and they spotlight the issue with Nielsen, and with getting viewership data in the streaming era more generally. Amazon has been pushing Thursday Night Football with auto-playing video, both on Amazon’s homepage and home screen ads on Fire TV devices. Nielsen doesn’t say whether these incidental streams from people using Amazon services to get to other destinations are counting towards the football ratings and juicing the numbers. Without knowing that answer, it’s hard to consider Nielsen’s numbers reliable, but as has often been the case, they continued to be relied on merely because there’s no better alternative in the market. Yet, cooperation is blocking progress for no real reason, other than ego's maintaining walled gardens. The biggest $MMM local/regional budgets currently transitioning from OTA/Cable served linear TV from ad buyers such as; Law firms, Auto, Mortgage, Medical, etc to streaming will begin a demand for hyper targeted lead delivery with measurable results only. Yet....is here now." https://lnkd.in/euYvvpJB #NextGenStreaming #FreeCast #NoMoreAppDiving

William (Bill) Mobley: -"Here we go. DirecTV acquires Dish. Big Tech software now becomes the play, regardless of what everyone "thinks". Consumers are frustrated, streaming devices for most part suck, stocks uneasy, and media jobs dropping like flies unnecessarily. This is easy to Fix Hollywood, whats not easy is the walled garden egos standing in the way of 50%+ profits everyday versus massive losses. Integretion or Assemilation...ask Bell Telephone." https://lnkd.in/gSbVWmHa #NextGenStreaming #FreeCast #NoMoreAppDiving

William (Bill) Mobley: Hollywood Reporter—Brutal. Paramount is implementing another round of major company-wide layoffs on Tuesday. In a memo to staff, co-CEOs George Cheeks, Brian Robbins and Chris McCarthy said that the company will undergo “phase two” of its workforce reductions today, but that by the end of the day “90 percent of these reductions will be complete.” Last month, the executives announced a sweeping plan to cut 15 percent of the company’s U.S. workforce in pursuit of $500m in cost-savings. The first round of layoffs took place shortly after that announcement, with the co-CEOs telling staff that the cuts would happen in three phases. While it is not immediately clear where Tuesday’s cuts will hit hardest, the co-CEOs wrote that “like the entire Media industry, we are working to accelerate streaming profitability while at the same time adjusting to the evolving landscape in our traditional businesses.” CBS News is among the divisions impacted, however, with the IBEW union saying in a statement that ““IBEW members have been producing CBS broadcasts since before the invention of television, and these layoffs are a hard pill to swallow.” FreeCast: "Completely Unnecessary. Its the ego cancer at the top, not willing to merge with real aggregate Big Tech because they sense a loss of Control. The operations teams are ones who make the magic happen on screen and have for almost 100 years! iTunes nor Spotify Today had this problem with the music industry. Its a damn shame. But Consumers will be enabled very soon, just days away." https://lnkd.in/eUp92Krx #NextGenStreaming #FreeCast #NoMoreAppDiving

William (Bill) Mobley: The TV Industry’s Decade of Shrugging off Cord-Cutting Comes Back to Bite - TechHive. Consumers taking control and Big Tech is retrofitting them - FreeCast Over the past decade, the cost of cable TV has skyrocketed, which is the very thing that pushed so many early cord-cutters into cobbling together new TV solutions, pairing old school antennas with limited streaming options. The truth is, that causal relationship went both ways. When TV providers and programmers first began to feel the pinch of cord-cutting, rather than take a hard look at why consumer were fleeing their product, they simply continued to jack up rates. TV providers have reached their breaking points, with Charter and DirecTV both showing that they’re no longer willing to keep passing on higher prices while this trend continues and drawing a hard line in negotiations with Disney. The time may be right for cable and satellite providers to win the right to offer smaller, more affordable packages of channels, but at this point even that may not do much but delay the inevitable demise of traditional pay-TV. DIY bundling and total streaming controls are being rolled out, along with a plan to Fix Broken Hollywood. 5 days and counting. https://lnkd.in/eruYpwGZ #NextGenStreaming #FreeCast #NoMoreAppDiving #CutTheCord

William (Bill) Mobley: -LA’s streaming gold rush is over. Film and TV workers have been left in the dust - Sherwood News 9/18/24 "Still, these are rosy outlooks and the prestige-TV era tends to lean toward endings with a bit more bite. There’s also the remote chance that one of the tech titans currently entertaining the film and TV business decides to pack up and exit altogether, which would make things worse for Hollywood workers before they get better." There's also a remote chance that a tech group who has studied, spoke frequently, and predicted this Hollywood steaming rise and fall since its birth, just happens to bring to the table a solution. 4 days and counting. https://lnkd.in/erCsCfUW #NextGenStreaming #FreeCast #NoMoreAppDiving #CutTheCord

We’re elevating your streaming experience! We’ve partnered with VideoElephant to add 3 new FAST channels to FreeCast: Beyond Paranormal, Travel Escapes, and Real Crime Uncovered. Whether you’re into supernatural mysteries, thrilling true crime, or stunning travel destinations, these channels offer something for every viewer. Learn more 👉 https://lnkd.in/e6rTTNJ3 #FreeCast #NextGenStreaming #Streaming #fast #free #tv

William (Bill) Mobley: -"It's Getting Real - Sportico: "It Costs $788 to Watch Every NFL Game on Your TV" or FreeCast: "What if it Cost less than $100 to Watch Your NFL Team Games?" https://lnkd.in/epZ5dfa7 #nextgenstreaming #freecast #nomoreappdiving

FreeCast and DISH Network have teamed up to deliver a whole-home solution for live local TV and 500+ Streaming channels on all devices with AirTv. Enjoy 500K+ Free on-demand TV shows and movies, plus DIY bundle options. The Next Generation TV is here! Learn more👉 https://lnkd.in/eVfj3-kr #FreeCast #Dish #Airtv #Airtv2 #NextGenStreaming

William (Bill) Mobley: - YouTube TV Slows Its Roll — vMVPD Adds Only 50,000 Customers in Q2 After Posting First-Ever Quarterly Loss - NextTV "With the U.S. pay TV business collectively shedding another 1.62 million customers in the second quarter, a trend seems to have emerged. The industry's biggest remaining growth engine, YouTube TV, has become a seasonal business, expanding when the NFL season is in full swing, and retreating amid other parts of the calendar year. The latest MoffettNathanson quarterly Cord-Cutting Monitor report illustrates this seasonality, estimating that Google's virtual MVPD only added 50,000 subscribers in the second quarter, after for the first time ever losing customers in a quarter — an estimated 150,000 of them — back in January through March." Now with 10 scattered options for NFL, RSN's in the drink, other pro sports winging it with locals on antennas...you have to question did YouTube TV win or lose the pig in a poke game with doling out all that dough and commitment for NFL Ticket? The combination of failing cable channels facing extinction and sports scattered everywhere like ants. I am not sure if that audience willing to pay for these is dying off as fast as the concept of cable? A LA CARTE baby! Sell sports Team by Team to fans of Teams! https://lnkd.in/eSdzcTcj #nextgenstreaming #freecast #nomoreappdiving

William (Bill) Mobley: -New NFL Season: 49% Of Games On Streaming, 7% Exclusively! - TelevisionNewsDaily "Half of all NFL games this season -- 133 -- will be available on streaming platforms -- virtually all on a non-exclusive basis, according to MoffettNathanson Research. Just 7% -- or 20 games -- will be available exclusively on direct-to-consumer platforms, largely on Amazon Prime Video, including one wildcard playoff game. Linear TV networks will have 42% \(114 games\) of all NFL games on an exclusive basis. " What I think is going to be interesting tonight with "Friday Night Football" is other than Green Bay and Philly fans who can watch the game on NBC locally, everyone else at 815p is going to realize its not a nationally televised game and will be clicking everywhere to find out ultimately they have to pay Peacock to watch it. Even more interesting will be Peacock's ability to process all those registrations within what will likely be a 5-10 minute window before people get really p\*ssed off. And the cancellation trate immediately following. This will be more intersting than the game and Saturady a.m. social will be a hoot. hashtag https://lnkd.in/eWkXUPJp #freecast #nextegenstreaming #nomoreappdiving #Nfl #football

Our CRO, Erik Genrich, will represent FreeCast at the 11th Annual Build-to-Rent Forum, hosted by Information Management Network, this September 9 at the Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina. This event is a fantastic opportunity to explore the latest trends in the Build-to-Rent sector, connect with industry leaders, and discuss innovative solutions in the space. Erik is eager to bring his insights on how FreeCast is helping developers and property managers enhance resident experiences through comprehensive TV and streaming solutions. If you're attending, don't miss the chance to meet Erik and discover how we can elevate your property's media offerings! If you would like to connect with Erik, you can reach him at 👉 Egenrich\@FreeCast.com Information Management Network \(IMN\) #FreeCast #StreamingSolutions #Networking #SanDiego #BuildToRent #BTR #PropertyManagement #Realty