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Byline: Mike Snider, USA TODAY The malls of America have begun to recover from the consumer exodus spurred on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Well, at least some of the malls [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, USA TODAY The Nintendo Switch console is about to make history, becoming the video game maker's best-selling console ever. But if you want to buy a new [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, USA TODAY With the latest and greatest new PlayStation and Xbox consoles in high demand, the video game makers at Nintendo surely must be ready to dump [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, USA TODAY With new video game consoles out, Microsoft and Sony are decades-long incumbents in the industry. But that wasn't always the case. More than 25 years [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, USA TODAY Caught in the middle of the AT&T-CBS standoff that has bumped your local CBS station from DirecTV, U-verse and DirecTV Now? There are other ways [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, USA TODAY While overall U.S. beer industry sales remain flat, Americans' thirst for craft beer continues to grow and Mexican beers such as Corona Extra and Modelo [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, USA TODAYStreaming video blasted beyond any tipping point in 2018 and will command even more attention in the coming year, but challenges lie ahead in the fight [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, USA TODAYMiddle-age Americans spend the most time consuming video, online content and other media, but younger adults are more likely to be digitally-focused, using internet-connected TV devices, [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, USA TODAY The latest cord-cutting statistics just keep getting worse. TV industry analysts last week already had tallied the losses for the major pay-TV players as about [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, USA TODAY Scratch the theory that cord cutting might be decelerating. Cable and satellite TV providers lost about 1.1 million subscribers during the July to September period, [...]

Byline: Mike Snider USA TODAY AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, now a media mogul with the telecom giant's acquisition of Time Warner, threw some shade on competitor Netflix while speaking at [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, USA TODAY More bad news for pay-TV providers: There's another sign that cord cutting - consumers dropping pay TV for broadband-delivered video - is accelerating. A new [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, USA TODAY Cord-cutting has been a thing for a long time. But new consumer research suggests an escalating aversion to traditional pay-TV service. As the exodus from [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, USA TODAY Sure it was salacious, but CBS' 60 Minutes on Sunday was must-see TV for many Americans. The latest episode broadcast Sunday night, which featured an [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, USA TODAY The king of beers has officially been dethroned. Budweiser no longer is among the top three best-selling beers in the U.S., according to Beer Marketer's [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, USA TODAY Netflix for a few dollars more? No problem. The Los Gatos, Calif.-based Internet video provider again blasted past its own growth expectations, adding more than [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, USA TODAY Apple heads into the new year with some unusually downbeat news: Its new iPhone X isn't proving to be quite the sales darling some of [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, USA TODAY Disney CEO Robert Iger has made a grand addition to the house that Walt built. The Walt Disney Co. said Thursday it had reached a [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, USA TODAY Megyn Kelly may be finding her voice -- and more viewers -- by tackling the issue of sexual harassment on her NBC morning show. The [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, @mikesnider, USA TODAY Verizon provided more evidence that consumers continue to opt for broadband-delivered TV offerings such as Netflix and Amazon Video over traditional pay-TV service. The [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, @mikesnider, USA TODAY Netflix continues to grow faster than predictions, powered by hit series such as Orange is the New Black and House of Cards. The online-delivered [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, @mikesnider, USA TODAY Fox Business News host Stuart Varney had covered a lot of ground about halfway through his three-hour show on Tuesday. He talked with Hall [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, @mikesnider, USA TODAY Here's another strategy for morning-after quarterbacks to ponder: Are NFL players' kneeling protests hurting TV ratings and even, perhaps, driving down TV stocks? The [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, @mikesnider, USA TODAY Time magazine has chosen a new editor-in-chief, an in-house veteran whose online journalism experience is expected to drive the storied media outlet's digital evolution. [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, @mikesnider, USA TODAY The battle for streaming video watchers is taking on superhero proportions. In one corner: Netflix. Flashing an arsenal of more than 50 million U.S. [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, @mikesnider, USA TODAY Is Netflix killing the multiplex? Wall Street apparently thinks so. Shares of AMC Entertainment fell 27% to $15.18 Wednesday -- hitting an all-time low [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, @mikesnider, USA TODAY Subscription streaming TV services such as DirecTV Now, Hulu and Sling TV are becoming as valuable in distributing ESPN as traditional pay-TV services, Walt [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, @mikesnider, USA TODAY You know that feeling when you want to watch one more episode of Stranger Things or Luke Cage -- but maybe you should just [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, @mikesnider, USA TODAY Netflix has its plan and is sticking to it. While competitors such as Amazon and Hulu dive into live TV, Netflix is standing its [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, @mikesnider, USA TODAY BlackBerry no longer makes smartphones. But it just landed a $814.9 million golden egg dating to when it was cellphone king. The Canadian company [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, @mikesnider, USA TODAY You've cut the cord -- but you're missing out on watching The Voice on NBC. Is YouTube TV for you? YouTube's massive audience will [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, and Edward C. Baig, @edbaig; @mikesnider Verizon has joined the rest of its rivals offering consumers unlimited data plans. And Wall Street smells a price war. As [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, @mikesnider, USA TODAY When you finish binging Stranger Things you take for granted Netflix may recommend another scary TV show or movie. But would you expect to [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, @mikesnider, USA TODAY Cable-news networks basked in a record-setting year for viewership spurred on by a tumultuous election, but the momentum has begun to subside. With Fox [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, @mikesnider, USA TODAY Netflix avoided a rerun of last quarter's poor subscriber growth performance by blasting past expectations with nearly 3.6 million new subscribers. The Los Gatos, [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, @mikesnider, USA TODAY Netflix shares plunged Monday after the streaming video provider added far fewer subscribers than it -- or Wall Street -- expected between April and [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, @mikesnider, USA TODAY Netflix has discovered that not all binge-watching is equal. When subscribers to the Net TV service get hooked on a series, such as Orange [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, @mikesnider, USA TODAY The battle for streaming video subscribers is about to intensify. That's because even though U.S. consumers continue to spend more on subscription services, the [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, @mikesnider, USA TODAY Amazon has unbundled its streaming video service from Amazon Prime, directly challenging Netflix's dominance. Does that mean binge-watchers need to make a decision on [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, @mikesnider, USA TODAY As a craft beer pioneer in the U.S., Boston Beer Co. founder and chairman Jim Koch gets more than his fill of competition. Rival [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, @mikesnider, USA TODAY Netflix shares dove late Monday after an outlook in its quarterly financial report indicated an ongoing price hike is likely to cool user growth. [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, @MikeSnider, USA TODAY Hollywood's latest twists and turns likely mean more first-run movies are headed to your living room. How we watch movies at home is being [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, @MikeSnider, USA TODAY Escalation is brewing in the battle between big beer brands and independent craft brewers. Even as global brewing leader Anheuser-Busch InBev progresses toward its [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, @MikeSnider, USA TODAY When Yahoo delivers its fourth-quarter earnings performance Tuesday, Wall Street doesn't want just numbers, it wants a glimpse at the road map of the [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, @MikeSnider, USA TODAY The battle of the streaming media devices is heating up with a refreshed Apple TV device joining the fray. Apple's latest set-top box ($149 [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, USA TODAY The death of console video games has been forecast for years. But games played on TVs and computers are like the corpse tossed onto the [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, USA TODAY For the first time, cord-cutting accelerated during the first three months of a year, a sign that more consumers are dropping pay TV or sidestepping [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, @MikeSnider, USA TODAY Severing your relationship with a traditional pay-TV service -- cutting the cord -- remains a hot topic. As many as 7% of pay-TV homes [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, USA TODAY HBO is looking to take on Netflix and, perhaps, push the advent of a full-fledged Net-delivered TV future. The premium pay-TV powerhouse plans to launch [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, USA TODAY As a major Apple shareholder, Carl Icahn thinks his stock in the iPhone maker should have more iValue. So Icahn -- who owns 53 million [...]