The Streaming Wars: Your Questions Answered

WSJ What’s News

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 10 March 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Streaming was supposed to make watching our favorite movie or TV show simpler than cable by giving us more choice over what we watch and when. But streaming has become a lot more complex in recent years, with a multitude of options from numerous different providers, including Netflix, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount and Comcast. How has that changed the way you stream? And what are streaming platforms doing in response? WSJ Los Angeles Bureau Chief Sarah Krouse answers your questions about the streaming wars and the battle for your subscriptions. Annmarie Fertoli hosts. Further Reading: Americans Are Canceling More of Their Streaming Services ESPN, Fox and Warner Team Up to Create Sports Streaming Platform Paramount+ Owner Discussed Combining It With Comcast’s Peacock Netflix’s Subscribers, Revenue Surge as It Cracks Down on Password Sharing Wait, Netflix Has Games?’ Streaming Giant Plans New Videogames Based on Its Hit Shows You Hated Your Cable Package. Your Streaming Services Are Bringing It Back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:38.6	Hey what's news listeners it's Sunday March 10th. I'm Anne Marie Fertoli.
0:45.0	And I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal.
0:48.0	And this is What's News Sunday, the show where we tackle the big questions about the biggest stories in the news
0:54.1	by reaching out to our colleagues across the newsroom to help explain what's happening in our world.
0:58.8	This week we're looking into the streaming wars and what they mean for the future of entertainment and for you.
1:05.5	Streaming or at least the promise of streaming was to make our lives simpler and give us more choice
1:10.0	about what we wanted to watch and when. But streaming's become a lot more
1:14.0	complicated since it started, not to mention more expensive. There are now tons of
1:18.7	places to stream with all the biggest players in the game like Apple, Warner Brothers Discovery, Disney, Hulu, and Netflix.
1:25.8	According to Real Good, which aggregates data from streaming platforms, there are nearly
1:29.6	40,000 TV shows and films to choose from.
1:32.8	And that's only from the eight largest streamers.
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