The state of the pay TV business has worried investors about the future of distribution and advertising revenues. But CBS is an exception to the rule, Moonves said.

Source: Moonves: Cord-Cutting Is Positive News for Us | Broadcasting & Cable

CBS Corp. intends to launch a streaming-video sports outlet that will be more newsy and less focused on commentary programs, the company’s top executive said Thursday.

Source: CBS Gets Ready to Vie With ESPN in Digital | Variety

The hit rate hasn’t yet come down too much, but there is ample evidence that, as production budgets (and financial risks) go up, volatility in financial performance is also going up.

Source: COGNITIVE HOLLYWOOD, Part 1: Data Shows Box Office Economics in Turmoil

Lionsgate Vice Chairman Michael Burns has predicted that major film studios will reach a deal within a year with exhibitors on the launch of a premium video-on-demand window for new theatrical releases.

Source: Lionsgate Vice Chairman Says Deal With Theaters on Early VOD Is Close | Variety

TV viewership is dropping across the board — including for live sports, which were supposed to be immune to shrinking ratings. NBA boss Adam Silver has a solution: Make sports look more like video games.

Source: The head of the NBA wants his games to look more like Twitch – Recode

It wasn’t immediately clear why the company behind Star Wars and Marvel couldn’t reach an arrangement with Apple.

Source: Disney Is Lone Holdout From Apple’s Plan to Sell 4K Movies for $20 – WSJ

The reaction to Disney’s decision to revamp its pay TV theatrical window strategy largely reflected skepticism that even the biggest media companies can go it alone with direct-to-consumer services.

Source: Disney, Cable Stocks Down as Wall Street Worries About Media Trends | Variety

Comcast will report video subscriber losses of between 100,000 and 150,000 in the third quarter, the No. 1 cable operator’s residential products chief, Matt Strauss, said.

Source: Comcast will lose 100K-150K video subcribers in Q3, residential products chief Strauss says | FierceCable

On Thursday, Mr. Iger said that the company’s Hollywood-oriented service would be introduced in “late 2019” and would include all new-release movies made by Walt Disney Studios, which includes Disney’s core film factory as well as Pixar, Marvel and Lucasfilm.

Source: Disney Plots Streaming, From ‘Star Wars’ and Marvel to Pay-Per-Sports – The New York Times

According to its S-1 filing for the IPO, Roku has 15.1m active accounts, and generated 9.4bn ‘streaming hours’ in 2016, up from less than 1bn in 2012.

Source: Set-top box maker Roku files for $100m IPO

On Thursday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed an injunction in a copyright lawsuit brought by Disney, Fox and Warner Bros.

Source: Appeals Court Upholds Injunction Against VidAngel’s Streaming Service | Hollywood Reporter

Delivering to the linear pay-TV industry a rather conclusive marker as to what devices companies should be developing OTT and multiscreen apps for, Parks Associates said that Roku now controls 37% of the market for streaming players in the U.S.

Source: Roku now controls 37% of the U.S. OTT device market | FierceCable

Sales are growing quickly. Some 10.7 million Amazon customers in the U.S. owned an Echo device at the end of the first quarter, up from three million a year earlier.

Source: Investors Are Betting Smart Speakers Will Have a ‘Smartphone Moment’ – WSJ

Apple is planning to unveil a renewed focus on the living room with an upgraded Apple TV set-top box that can stream 4K video and highlight live television content such as news and sports, according to people familiar with the matter.

Source: Apple Is Planning a 4K Upgrade for Its TV Box – Bloomberg