CCT - The War on IPTV, Disney Sued Over ESPN on YouTube TV, & More

welcome to core kind today for February

3rd 2023. this is a show where I break

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let's dive into this starting off with

some deals of the day tons of great

deals happening on record cutting I have

kind of a summary post Disney plus is on

sale you got some great Roku TV deals

sling TV is offering if you've been

thinking about trying them A Fire TV

stick and ten dollars off a month and

Paramount plus is still free for one

month you have about a week left to get

in on that deal if you think about

trying Paramount plus check out the show

notes down below for the first pen story

there for a code to get it free for a

month all right let's dive into the news

of the day starting off with the war on

IPTV illegal IPTV so IPTV is kind of a

generic term that's kind of come to

describe all kinds of pirate services

that offer live content so think of like

YouTube TV sling TV and more illegal

cheaper a little more wonky in the way

they work well in recent years not that

long ago they were everywhere you were

seeing them 20 bucks for all these

channels and more now increasingly

they're being shut down there's a

growing number of media companies who

are joining conglomerates like Ace which

is I think mainly headed by dish and a

whole bunch of other companies like Fox

and more are members of it but they're

going out and they're aggressively going

after these IPTV services to shut them

down and they also successfully lobbied

to make it a crime to run a service like

this in the past you'd get a civil fine

and you could declare bankruptcy and

stuff to get around it well in 2020 the

U.S passed the law Penal Code 593d I

believe is what it is where it actually

makes a criminal and that's where you

see things like the owners of Gears

reloaded and more facing criminal not

just civil cases here because they

changed the law to go after some of

these people

um you also see FBI going after I stream

at all which was a not necessarily live

service but more of a netflix-like

competitor that claimed to be free

claimed to have a loophole but in the

end ultimately face the same fate as

many pirate Services out there even just

this week Ace went after it successfully

shut down multiple sites focusing on

Spanish language content

ustv go got shut down recently and also

reportedly was because of these

anti-piracy apps ustv gold seemed like

it survived forever it was around

forever now it's gone look for this

become more and more common as core

cutting has grown it's put pinch on

profit margins for these companies

they're not going to tolerate any

illegal access to their content they

need the ability to go after it I have

to get asked how does Dish get involved

with this this isn't their con their

content well this should often can prove

that hey this content's coming from

their satellite networks and Dish does

own some some cable networks and that

these cable network Works were on these

services so they've been very very

aggressive in trying to get them shut

down so if they keep a very close eye on

this to see how it all plays out but

clearly piracy is a big concern for them

they're very dedicated to shutting it

down however they can

so watch for that in the years to come I

think we're just seeing the tip of the

iceberg of these pirate Services getting

shut down and criminal charges being

brought against the people behind it

all right next story up Disney is

fighting back against a lawsuit about

artificially inflating the price of

services like YouTube TV in DirecTV

stream now the Crux of this is the

complaint by nine people that

um Disney's forcing companies if they

want like the Disney Channel they also

have to carry ESPN which is very

expensive in their base package and

that's driving up the cost of these

Services they are upset that you um if

you remember for a brief time not that

long ago ESPN for like a day left

YouTube TV and then they start the deal

came back well shortly after YouTube

TV's price went up because they had

agreed to a higher price for YouTube TV

is carrying of ESPN now Disney's asking

a judge to dismiss this case arguing

that bundling is not a problem that it's

honestly it's been proven or held up

long time now that companies can say hey

if you want this channel you also have

to carry our other channels that we sell

and that's how we get all these 100 plus

channels most of them you've never heard

12 because e is mtv2 and MTV classic and

MTV discs or that and the other thing

are all required if you want to have MTV

maybe not necessarily in the main bundle

but in some type of bundle out there so

keep a close eye on this I suspect that

Disney's going to Prevail in this I'm no

lawyer just a gut reaction from looking

at this and looking at previous attempts

to do things like this I think Disney's

got some stuff on their side that's

going to help them avoid having to uh

Go a la carte and that's the hope that

the lawsuits that they will allow in a

la carte option you pick the channels by

what you want let's be honest most

channels would not survive today if they

weren't being supported by bundle even

big channels like CNN reportedly would

not survive if it wasn't for the fact

that they were bundled together

speaking of bundling and priority

yesterday Disney released a letter to

shareholders and in that letter they

talked about a lot of different things

for the future of the company the plans

for Bob eicher a lot of this comes down

is that there's an activist group of

investors that are trying to push to put

some of their people on the Disney board

of directors the hope that they have is

that they'll get in there and they'll be

able to make some changes that they

think Disney needs to make Disney

obviously does not want to make these

changes that they're looking at now

Disney said things like improve in the

Parks better management of the content

creation and more is one of the things

that they are working on under the new

CEO Bob Iger or the returning CEO about

hire but also quote prioritizing the

profitability and improving oh wait let

me back up prioritizing streaming

profitability and improving guest

experience at parks so basically what

they're saying is we want to get the

parks more profitable by making guest

experience better and we want make

streaming more profitable now we already

covered about a few weeks ago how Disney

Paul us Paramount plus and others are

not profitable 2024 2025 is the target

goal it seems like Disney's hoping to

drag that number forward and do it

there's a few ways Disney could do that

it's very possible that they could of

course do another price hike but I think

they may join a growing number of

services rather that be like discoveries

been very public in this cutting back in

them on content they make canceling

shows that they don't think are big big

enough to justify the costs of them and

a whole lot more would not surprise me

that Disney Cuts back a little bit on

the content for Hulu Disney plus and

More in order to lower expenses and get

bigger profitability it's always a game

there you're right you want to get the

right shows mixed together but you also

need to make sure you are keeping your

costs low so let's see what happens here

also interesting to see what happens in

the proxy board fight we'll see Disney's

definitely has a lot more on their mind

than just keeping Disney plus customers

happy right now

all right let's jump forward to YouTube

TV yesterday Google reported their

earnings and did well of course ad

Revenue wasn't quite what they wanted it

to be but they gave us some information

about YouTube TV and the future of NFL

Sunday Ticket so NFL Sunday Ticket was

purchased by

um Google's parent company alphabet it's

going to be available on YouTube and

YouTube TV this fall you're going to get

a la carte you won't need a bundle to do

it you can go into YouTube If you're not

a YouTube TV customer

and get the service but they did

announce that YouTube TV's NFL Sunday

Ticket on your smart TV streaming player

Etc will offer split screen no exact

details on what that means I assume

that'll be available on more than just

NFL Sunday Ticket but you'll be able to

watch multiple games at the same time on

your TV as if you have NFL Sunday Ticket

it would be a pretty cool feature there

there are a few things that we still

don't know we don't have the pricing on

this we don't have other details but I

love the fact that YouTube is going to

be adding split screen the ability to

have two or three games on at the same

moment will be I think an excellent move

by uh YouTube TV there

all right let's keep moving apple is uh

reporting their earnings and they

announced they have 935 million

subscribers not two Apple TV plus but to

all their services Apple music Apple TV

plus Apple Care Apple okay let's grab

this list Apple arcade Apple news Apple

Fitness and a whole lot more Apple has

so many

people are buying fewer devices let's

just be honest the need to run out and

buy a new phone every year is just not

there so instead Apple's moving more and

more to subscription-based profit

margins and to do that they need you to

subscribe to Services

um so they're rolling out more and

that's why Apple's put a lot of focus

into Apple TV for example striking that

deal with the Hallmark Channel to bring

Hallmark content

um striking deals with major league

baseball and Major League Soccer a new

Subscription Service just launched this

week gives you access to every single

major league soccer game all season long

so look for this to become more and more

common the fact is that your phone for

most people does everything they wanted

to do the improvements are great if

you're a hardcore fan great honestly

people are holding onto their phones

longer because they work just fine they

do the phone calls they check the

weather they do all they let you surf

social media and more so apple is now

looking for subscriptions to kind of

make up that Gap it'll be interesting to

see how much they put into Apple TV to

try to grow that at Apple TV plus to be

exact and try to grow it all right last

story of the day T-Mobile is number one

in Customer Care amongst wireless

companies according to JD Power

so if you've been looking for a new

phone company or home internet according

to this report let me throw that off my

lap real quick

um

T-Mobile is the most popular service out

there and it's the or for customer care

and I want to know do you agree do you

think T-Mobile has excellent customer

care it's always kind of one of those

things your service always sucks

everybody else seems to be better you

know it's the grass is always greener on

the other side and if you're happy

you're probably not interacting with

T-Mobile customer care if you're unhappy

you are so leave me a comment let me

know do you agree with that do you think

T-Mobile's customer care is better I'd

love to hear from you all right so

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