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☀️Case Study: UFC-WWE TV 💰 vs. DtoC Streaming 💰

NFL Sunday Ticket price goes up / Kim Kardashian doing TV at FX / HFPA boosts voting body 3X

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Sean McNulty
Apr 11, 2023
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Mornin! This is Sean McNulty (connect with me on LinkedIn here if ya like), and here’s the Hollywood + Media news to know on TUESDAY April 11, 2023.

Where… anybody wanna buy a Mac? According to Bloomberg, sales of Macintosh personal computers were -40% in Q1 🤯, the worst Q1 drop since the beginning of 2000 (all PC sales were -29% in Q1)… and given that “keep the computer” is likely not in any tech severance packages - this certainly tracks.

kids today will just never know… via giphy

PLUS: The HFPA has 3X’d the GOLDEN GLOBES voting body size, adding 215 new International voters to next year’s edition to make for 310 total… wherever the show’s gonna air/stream. And here is the list. Just kidding, they didn’t reveal the names or outlets for the new additions.

  • But they said that the new voting body is now more diverse:

    • 42% White

    • 25% Latinx

    • 14% Asian

    • 10% Black

    • 9% Middle Eastern

MY APOLOGIES: To the U OF MINN for mixing up my furry arboreal friends yesterday - they are the Golden Gophers, not the Beavers. Plus a my bad to Joe Alwyn, for the extra l that I put in his name yesterday.

CONGRATS: To Hilary Swank, on the birth of her new son and daughter.

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IN TODAY’S EDITION:

  • A relatively quiet day of TV & Movie deal news - are ya’ll on Spring Break? At least Kim Kardashian came through for me with a scripted TV role (a line I never anticipated writing).

  • Although - YOUTUBE announced that NFL Sunday Ticket (& RedZone) are actually getting more expensive this Fall than they were at DIRECTV. Well at least they’re on brand for the 2023 state of the Streaming business.

  • So - I took some time to dive into some numbers about how much UFC & WWE are currently making in US rights deals (and compared to their total Rights income), plus if the notion of combining the 2 into a DtoC service made any $$ sense. Enjoy at your leisure.


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Hey Phoenix, nice to see ya again. via Giphy

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