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2025 Consumer Electronics Show

The Disney Plus streaming app on a smartphone. (Photo by Mika Baumeister via Unsplash)

Disney: 157 million streaming content with ads

For the first time, Disney is revealing the number of customers who are streaming content on ad-supported plans.

A stock image of television broadcast towers.

Broadcasters band together to launch datacast service EdgeBeam Wireless

Four of the nation's biggest local TV station owners say ATSC 3.0 spectrum offers reliable data broadcasting capabilities.

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