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(Source: Hub Research’s “Conquering Content” Study)

➢ Consumers are now three times more likely to discover a new show on a streaming platform than on a traditional network.

➢ Netflix is still the single most common destination for new show discovery, named by 35% of viewers.

➢ Exclusive shows can still attract long-term subscribers. Some 77% of those signing up to a servce to watch one show end up keeping the service once they’ve watched.

➢ 53% of TV consumers sometimes watch content from a free TV streaming service with ads.

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Quotable

“The White House last month hailed Ms. Sohn as ‘one of the nation’s leading public advocates for open, affordable, and democratic communications networks.’ Translation: She favors deploying the agency’s regulatory power to shackle broadband providers and silence conservative voices. Ms. Sohn founded the leftwing group Public Knowledge that has long sought more government control of the internet and media. She was a counselor to Obama FCC Chair Tom Wheeler and was a driving force behind the ‘net neutrality’ regulation that classified broadband providers as common carriers under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934… Ms. Sohn’s strident partisanship should disqualify her from serving as an officer of an independent agency with so much power to control the public airwaves.”
– The WSJ Editorial Board on President Biden’s Nomination of Gigi Sohn to the FCC

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Title II Returns: Same Show, Different Cast

The slow march to the FCC’s Title II vote came to an end Thursday as commissioners voted 3-2 to reclassify broadband as a common carrier service with no real surprises along the way.

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