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(Source: Nielsen Gracenote’s State of Play 2023 Report)

➢ Audiences now spend an average of 10.5 minutes searching for something to watch, up from nearly 7.5 minutes back in early 2019.

➢ Audiences have nearly 40,000 different channels and streaming sources to find content on.

➢ As of June 2023, Gracenote Video Data had a record of 1,400+ individual FAST channels in its database, with 1,050+ of them available in the U.S.

➢ 73% of the time U.S. women 18-34 spent watching the top 25 streaming programs in 2022 was dedicated to classic TV.

Up Ahead

Sept. 8: 2023 Cablefax Most Powerful Women Nomination Deadline

Sept 18-19: The WICT Network Leadership Conference; NYC

Sept 19-20: NAMIC 37th Annual Conference; NYC

Sept 20: The Walter Kaitz Dinner; NYC

Quotable

“The one piece of critical Disney content that is not available over-the-top today is ESPN. This appears to be the crux of the dispute. On the one hand, we are at the start of the NFL and college football season. On the other, there have been rumors that Disney will launch a premium over-the-top offering for ESPN content next year. That would be one year into what is likely a five-year carriage agreement. If the ESPN app were available now, we suspect Charter would be risking little. As it stands, they risk the loss of avid sports fans (with football fans being the most avid of all), between now and the content being available elsewhere. We won’t declare this the point. It will be the biggest test the balance of power has faced so far. The balance hasn’t favored distributors this much since the fun days of TCI.”

– New Street Research’s take on the Charter/Disney dispute

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