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SiriusXM added 131,000 self-pay subscribers in the fourth quarter and beat its full-year guidance for earnings and free cash flow while only slightly missing its revenue goal, the company announced Thursday (Feb. 1). The satellite radio giant lost 445,000 self-pay subscribers for the full year, however.
Full-year revenue declined 0.6% to $8.95 billion, slightly below last quarter’s guidance of $9 billion. Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) declined 2% to $2.8 billion, coming in a little above guidance of $2.75 billion. Free cash flow of $1.2 billion was down about 23% but beat guidance by $50 million.
SiriusXM, built on a satellite radio service favored by older consumers, is in re-building mode. The company launched a new app in November and a $9.99-per-month streaming-only subscription service aimed at younger audiences who don’t listen primarily in their cars. The app houses Sirius’ 400-plus channels in addition to an audio library and a growing stable of podcast content that includes such brands as Smartless, which earlier this week left Amazon’s Wondery after striking a $100 million deal with SiriusXM, and Conan O’Brien’s Team Coco, which SiriusXM acquired in 2022.
The strategy isn’t likely to produce results this year, though. “While early indications are showing signs of positive impacts of our business investments, it will take time for these to fully reflect in our subscriber and financial metrics,” said CEO Jennifer Witz during Thursday’s earnings call.
While SiriusXM expects “roughly level” subscriber numbers in 2024, new streaming-only subscribers pay less than satellite radio subscribers and will result in a lower average revenue per user. Those factors, along with an advertising market Witz called “uncertain,” leads the company to expect two of its key financial metrics to fall in 2024. Full-year revenue guidance of $8.75 billion would be a 2.2% decline from $8.95 billion in 2023, while adjusted EBITDA guidance of $2.7 billion would mark a 3.3% year-over-year decline. Free cash flow is expected to remain at $1.2 billion.
Investors appeared to have baked the rebuild process into their forecasts and did not react negatively to Thursday’s earnings results. Shares of SiriusXM rose as much as 5.1% on Thursday morning and closed at $5.23, up 2.8%.
SiriusXM’s satellite radio service generated full-year revenue of $6.8 billion, down 1% year over year. Self-pay subscribers grew 131,000 in the fourth quarter after falling 96,000 in the third quarter. For the full year, self-pay subscribers fell by 445,000 to approximately 34 million. Paid promotional subscribers dropped by 225,000 in the fourth quarter but increased by 15,000 for the full year.
Pandora revenue increased 1% to $1.6 billion, while its subscribers fell 3% to 6.0 million, down from 6.2 million at the end of 2022. The music streaming service finished the year with 46.0 million monthly active users, down 3.4% from 47.6 million in the prior-year period. Total ad-supported listener hours of 10.48 billion in 2023 was down 4% from 10.88 billion in 2022. Pandora’s gross profit dipped 3% to $638 million.
SiriusXM laid off 8% of its staff in March 2023, which resulted in approximately $140 million in cost savings, CFO Tom Barry said on Thursday. This year, the company is targeting nearly $200 million in additional savings, he added, that will be “reinvested” in “more targeted and more performance-oriented marketing on the streaming side.”
SiriusXM’s full-year 2023 financial metrics
Total revenue of $8.95 billion, down 0.6%.
Adjusted EBITDA of $2.8 billion, down 2%.
Free cash flow of $1.2 billion, down 23%.
SiriusXM revenue of $6.8 billion, down 1%.
Pandora revenue of $1.6 billion, up 1%.
SiriusXM satellite radio self-pay subscribers of 34 million.
Pandora subscribers of 6 million.
After a string of pivots, rebrands, upgraded offerings and expanded plans, YouTube Premium and Music has passed the magical 100 million subscribers mark, counting users in trials, the company announced Thursday (Feb. 1).
That’s up from the 80 million Premium and Music subscribers around the world (including trials), reported in November 2022, and a jump from 50 million users at the end of 2021.
The milestone is cause for great celebration at the company, notes Lyor Cohen, global head of music at YouTube, in an open letter to the industry issued today (Feb. 1). “This 20-million-member growth in just over a year underscores the strength of our twin engine of advertising and subscriptions revenue,” writes Cohen.
The Alphabet-owned business unveiled its subscription offering, YouTube Music, back in October 2015, and launched its dedicated app the following month.
The streaming landscape then was littered with naysayers. “Many doubted a subscription model could thrive on YouTube,” Cohen notes. “They said the market was crowded and our platform was too different. Today – 100 million subscribers later – our distinctiveness is precisely what drives our success and why I still see so much room for growth.”
Later, in June 2018, YouTube announced the launch of YouTube Premium, formerly known as YouTube Red. Since then, notes Cohen, the Premium service’s global expansion has ramped up and is “now thriving in over 100 countries and regions” with “more on the horizon in 2024.”
By crossing the 100 million mark, “we’re delighted and humbled,” comments Adam Smith, vice president of product management at YouTube, in a separate statement.
Along the way, “we learned a lot, made a few pivots (and even rebranded), expanded our offerings and plans, and made YouTube Music and Premium available in over 100 countries and regions,” adds Smith.
In a matchup of streaming heavyweights, Spotify, the market-leading music platform, holds the advantage. The Sweden-based business came to market early, in 2008, and boasted 226 million premium subscribers worldwide in Q3 2023.
Though Apple rarely shares updates on subscriber numbers, in June 2022, J.P. Morgan estimated Apple Music could hit 110 million subscribers by 2025. The last time the company reported subscriber numbers for Apple Music was in 2019, when it reported 60 million paid users.
As YouTube hangs the decorations, captains of the industry are lining up to thank their tech partner — including a former YouTuber now leading a major label.
“Having been at YouTube when we conceived of the subscription service, 100 million customers felt like a distant possibility,” says Robert Kyncl, who was chief business officer at YT before joining Warner Music Group as CEO. “Today, it’s yet another signpost on a journey of extraordinary growth. The fact that YouTube continues to go from strength to strength isn’t just good for them, it’s healthy for the entire music ecosystem.”
Lucian Grainge, chairman and CEO of Universal Music Group, says the team led by Cohen and YouTube CEO Neal Mohan deserves credit for “continuing to grow and drive innovation while making significant contributions to the global music ecosystem. Our partnership demonstrates that if you start from a foundation of respect for artists and songwriters, there are limitless opportunities to create thriving businesses that benefit artists and fans alike.”
Adds Helen Smith, executive chair of pan-European independent music companies’ trade body IMPALA: “YouTube has a unique place in the music ecosystem, is a valued member of IMPALA’s Friends scheme and a great partner of our 100 Artists to Watch program.” She continues, “We look forward to continuing to work together across the whole European market where there is so much potential for digital services who see diversity as an asset.”
According to Cohen, YT’s businesses have contributed $6 billion in the past year.
“The music industry is at a critical juncture,” he writes. “Together, we can harness technological innovation to drive unprecedented value for artists and fans, building on our momentum that contributed $6 billion to the music industry in 12 months.”
That future, one where the music industry “thrives,” he insists, would see both sides leveraging AI to enhance creative imagination, seamlessly bridging short-form and long-form content for maximum artist exposure, and more.
Read Cohen’s thank you letter here.
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ARMY has taken over television as the ever-growing popular Korean drama Marry My Husband keeps slipping references to BTS into episodes. Multiple scenes have incorporated hit songs from the K-pop group’s album Dynamite — becoming a great show for ARMY to indulge in. If you’re looking for streaming options to begin watching the current episodes released, Prime Video has got you covered.
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Adapted from a web novel, the series follows Kang Ji-won (Park Min-young), a terminally ill cancer patient, who, after discovering her husband and best friend are having an affair, is murdered by the two of them. In a strange twist of fate, she awakens to find herself alive, but 10 years in the past, leading her to reclaim her fate and seek the ultimate revenge against her husband.
Other cast members include Na In-woo, Song Ha-yoon and Lee Yi-kyung.
Keep reading to learn how to stream the show at home.
How to Watch Marry My Husband
Marry My Husband is a tvN series, which you can watch for free with a Prime membership through Prime Video. New episodes premiere weekly, with the first 10 episodes available to binge right now, and episode 11 slated to drop on Monday (Feb. 5). If you’re already a Prime member, then you can watch the show for free when you log into your account and head to Prime Video.
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LONDON — Record labels, publishers and streaming services in the United Kingdom have signed up to a voluntary code of good practice that requires them to provide clear and transparent information to artists and creators about how their streaming royalties are calculated.
“The UK Code of Good Practice on Transparency in Music Streaming” was published Wednesday (Jan. 31) by the U.K. government’s Intellectual Property Office (IPO).
It obliges key players in the British music industry to supply musicians, songwriters, composers and producers with “timely, accurate and clear royalty accounting information,” as well as detail any deductions that have been applied.
Signatories include representatives of major and independent record labels, publishers, creators, collecting societies and streaming services.
Trade bodes BPI — which represents more than 500 labels, including the U.K. arms of Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group — and the Association of Independent Music (AIM), which acts on behalf of U.K. independent record labels and music companies, are among the music groups backing the pledge.
The U.K. government says the agreement forms a “significant point” in improving transparency around licensing deals and music streaming royalties that will build greater trust between record labels, streaming services and creators.
“This pioneering code, designed by the music industry with Government backing, has trust at its core,” said Viscount Camrose, minister for AI and Intellectual Property, in a statement.
The cross-industry pact, said Camrose, will “help ensure artists get the royalties and protections they deserve when their music is played on streaming platforms.”
Wednesday’s transparency agreement is the latest in an ongoing series of government-led interventions into the U.K. music industry fuelled by artist discontent over low payments from streaming.
In 2021, a Parliamentary inquiry into the music streaming business called into question the major record labels’ dominance of the industry and branded the global streaming model as unsustainable in its current form, saying it “needs a complete reset.”
Numerous government-led working groups, investigations and initiatives spun out of the eight-month-long Parliamentary probe, including last year’s industry-wide pledge – also made at the behest and overseen by the IPO – to improve the digital metadata for song recordings.
The new transparency agreement further increases the obligations on rights holders and digital services to address long-standing issues in music streaming, but it does not constitute a regulatory change and it is not clear what, if any, repercussions a record label or DSP would face for breaching its terms.
Rather, the voluntary code is intended as a stimulus for music companies to lift standards and deliver more accurate returns to artists by following a number of agreed principles.
They include labels, publishers and managers making it clear to artists the terms of their contracts, licence deals and remuneration terms, including any recoupable costs.
Streaming services are required to provide to all relevant rights holders accurate and timely usage data. The code also states that artists and creators should have a contractual right to audit financial information, including royalty payments, from labels, publishers, distributors, collecting societies and, in the case of self-releasing artists, streaming services that they hold contracts with.
Other music groups backing the transparency code include the Digital Entertainment and Retail Association (ERA), whose members include streaming services; the Music Publishers Association (MPA); Musicians’ Union (MU); Featured Artists Coalition (The FAC); Music Managers Forum (MMF); Music Producers Guild (MPG) and U.K. collecting societies PRS for Music and Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL).
The code will come into force on July 31 with the IPO set to carry out a first review of its implementation early next year.
In the meantime, several other government initiatives looking into the digital music business will continue to operate in the background, including a new working group –made up of industry stakeholders — looking into artist remuneration from music streaming.
Details on membership of the remuneration working group, which was first announced last May, will be published shortly, said the government. A report into equitable remuneration commissioned by the IPO is due to be published in the coming months
Commenting on the new transparency requirements, BPI chief executive Jo Twist said the “landmark agreement… builds meaningfully on the recent progress around metadata and other significant measures addressing creator concerns around music streaming.”
U.K. trade group The Council Of Music Makers said that while the commitments contained in the code “are modest, it provides a framework that can be used to start tackling the “systemic lack of transparency” in music streaming. The organization said it will be launching a complaints mechanism when the code comes into force for artists and their managers to report non-compliance with its terms.
“The big music and streaming companies need to stop using ‘artist-centric’ as a hollow buzzword and actually put artists and other music-makers at the centre of their businesses,” said a Council Of Music Makers spokesperson.
Universal Music Group (UMG) says it will pull its entire music catalog from TikTok when its contract with the service expires on Wednesday (Jan. 31), accusing the platform of “trying to build a music-based business, without paying fair value for the music,” according to an open letter released Tuesday (Jan. 30).
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In the letter, addressed to UMG artists and songwriters, the company states that it’s particularly concerned about the rates that TikTok is offering to pay for its catalog. Other points of contention include the amount of content on TikTok that infringes its artists’ and songwriters’ works without providing “meaningful solutions” to help them combat it, the level of hate and harassment on the platform and TikTok’s stances on artificial intelligence (AI).
According to UMG, during the negotiations, the ByteDance-owned social giant “demanded a contractual right which would allow [AI] content to massively dilute the royalty pool for human artists,” which UMG states is “nothing short of sponsoring artist replacement by AI.”
If UMG pulls its catalog, it would affect all music distributed and administered by its recorded-music division as well as Universal Music Publishing Group.
The last deal UMG struck with TikTok to license both its recorded music and publishing was announced on Feb. 8, 2021. In July, WMG inked a multi-year licensing deal with TikTok that allows the company to use WMG’s music on its app as well as CapCut and its new “social streaming platform” TikTok Music, which is currently available in Brazil, Indonesia, Australia, Singapore, and Mexico. At the time the deal was announced, WMG CEO/chairman Robert Kyncl and TikTok’s chief executive Shou Chew said the agreement would benefit artists.
This is not the first time the music business has had issues with TikTok. In 2019, when the platform was just getting started, the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) called on Congress to investigate TikTok for potential copyright theft. It was also reported around that time that TikTok was operating on expired deal extensions that were grandfathered in from when it acquired Musical.ly in late 2017. In March 2020, Billboard reported that all three majors had struck short-term licensing deals with TikTok.
Read the full open letter below.
Our core mission is simple: to help our artists and songwriters attain their greatest creative and commercial potential. To achieve these goals, our teams employ their expertise and passion to strike deals with partners all around the world, partners who take seriously their responsibilities to fairly compensate our artists and songwriters and treat the user experience with respect
One of those partners is TikTok, an increasingly influential platform with powerful technology and a massive worldwide user base. As with many other platforms with whom we partner, TikTok’s success as one of the world’s largest social platforms has been built in large part on the music created by our artists and songwriters. Its senior executives proudly state publicly that “music is at the heart of the TikTok experience” and our analysis confirms that the majority of content on TikTok contains music, more than any other major social platform.
The terms of our relationship with TikTok are set by contract, which expires January 31, 2024. In our contract renewal discussions, we have been pressing them on three critical issues—appropriate compensation for our artists and songwriters, protecting human artists from the harmful effects of AI, and online safety for TikTok’s users.
We have been working to address these and related issues with our other platform partners. For example, our Artist-Centric initiative is designed to update streaming’s remuneration model and better reward artists for the value they deliver to platforms. In the months since its inception, we’re proud that this initiative has been received so positively and taken up by a range of partners, including the largest music platform in the world. We’ve also moved aggressively to embrace the promise of AI while fighting to ensure artists’ rights and interests are protected now and far into the future. In addition, we’ve engaged a number of our platform partners to try to drive positive change for their users and by extension, our artists, by addressing online safety issues, and we are recognized as the industry leader in focusing on music’s broader impact on health and wellness.
With respect to the issue of artist and songwriter compensation, TikTok proposed paying our artists and songwriters at a rate that is a fraction of the rate that similarly situated major social platforms pay. Today, as an indication of how little TikTok compensates artists and songwriters, despite its massive and growing user base, rapidly rising advertising revenue and increasing reliance on music-based content, TikTok accounts for only about 1% of our total revenue.
Ultimately TikTok is trying to build a music-based business, without paying fair value for the music.
On AI, TikTok is allowing the platform to be flooded with AI-generated recordings—as well as developing tools to enable, promote and encourage AI music creation on the platform itself – and then demanding a contractual right which would allow this content to massively dilute the royalty pool for human artists, in a move that is nothing short of sponsoring artist replacement by AI.
Further, TikTok makes little effort to deal with the vast amounts of content on its platform that infringe our artists’ music and it has offered no meaningful solutions to the rising tide of content adjacency issues, let alone the tidal wave of hate speech, bigotry, bullying and harassment on the platform. The only means available to seek the removal of infringing or problematic content (such as pornographic deepfakes of artists) is through the monumentally cumbersome and inefficient process which equates to the digital equivalent of “Whack-a-Mole.”
But when we proposed that TikTok takes similar steps as our other platform partners to try to address these issues, it responded first with indifference, and then with intimidation.
As our negotiations continued, TikTok attempted to bully us into accepting a deal worth less than the previous deal, far less than fair market value and not reflective of their exponential growth. How did it try to intimidate us? By selectively removing the music of certain of our developing artists, while keeping on the platform our audience-driving global stars.
TikTok’s tactics are obvious: use its platform power to hurt vulnerable artists and try to intimidate us into conceding to a bad deal that undervalues music and shortchanges artists and songwriters as well as their fans.
We will never do that.
We will always fight for our artists and songwriters and stand up for the creative and commercial value of music.
We recognize the challenges that TikTok’s actions will cause, and do not underestimate what this will mean to our artists and their fans who, unfortunately, will be among those subjected to the near-term consequences of TikTok’s unwillingness to strike anything close to a market-rate deal and meaningfully address its obligations as a social platform. But we have an overriding responsibility to our artists to fight for a new agreement under which they are appropriately compensated for their work, on a platform that respects human creativity, in an environment that is safe for all, and effectively moderated.
We honor our responsibilities with the utmost seriousness. Intimidation and threats will never cause us to shirk those responsibilities.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) welcomed the latest edition of the United States Trade Representative’s (USTR) Notorious Markets Report on Tuesday (Jan. 30), which provides an annual run-down of various forms of copyright infringement, including digital music piracy.
Digital music piracy is not front-of-mind for many listeners in the age of streaming; even the industry itself has focused more of its recent frustration on streaming fraud and the popularity of rain sounds, at least in public comments made in the last year.
However, global music piracy inched up in 2022, according to a March 2023 report from MUSO, a U.K. technology company, which tracked over 15 billion visits to music piracy sites that year.
The USTR’s new report highlighted a handful of sites — including 1337X, Krakenfiles, Rapidgator and Ssyoutube — where people go to stream or download songs illegally. “Ssyoutube is reportedly the most popular YouTube ripping site globally, with over 343 million visitors just in April 2023,” the USTR noted in one example.
“We appreciate the report’s prioritization of thefts that target the music community such as stream-ripping,” said George York, the RIAA’s senior vp of international policy, in a statement.
Overall, music is less of a concern in this year’s USTR report relative to 2023’s. The document’s primary focus is the “potential health and safety risks posed by counterfeit trademark goods.”
The USTR was heartened by the fact that “this year many e-commerce and social commerce platforms took solid steps toward initiating additional anti-counterfeiting practices and adapting to new circumvention techniques used by counterfeiters.”
“Several platforms filed public submissions outlining their implementation of new anti-counterfeiting tools, including releasing educational campaigns, increasing identity verification requirements, and implementing faster and more transparent notice-and-takedown processes,” the report continued. “Additionally, several platforms have invested in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies as a way to scale up and quickly adapt traditional anti-counterfeiting measures such as text and image screening.”
The RIAA had asked the USTR to highlight another aspect of AI, according to comments submitted in October, though it was not ultimately included in the report.
At the time, the RIAA noted that “the year 2023 saw an eruption of unauthorized AI vocal clone services that infringe not only the rights of the artists whose voices are being cloned but also the rights of those that own the sound recordings in each underlying musical track. This has led to an explosion of unauthorized derivative works of our members’ sound recordings which harm sound recording artists and copyright owners.”
In a statement following the USTR’s latest release, York “urge[d] the organization to take “a close look in the future at emerging piracy challenges presented by AI, including the widespread illegal use of copyrighted sound recordings and artist names, images, and likenesses to generate invasive and unlawful voice clones and deepfakes.”
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After the success of big-box concert films such as Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour and Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé, Lil Nas X is taking us down the old town road in his own in-depth documentary from HBO. Titled Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero, the documentary will premiere on Max on Saturday (Jan. 27), and coincides with his latest new single, giving fans the opportunity to explore the “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” singer’s rise to fame and debut tour.
Divided into three acts — Rebirth, Transformation and Becoming — the movie chronicles the “Industry Baby” singer’s life growing up in Atlanta, his rebirth as a musician and his place within the community of Black queer icons. Fans will also get behind-the-scenes footage of Lil Nas X throughout his debut tour, which spanned 60 days across North America and Europe.
Keep reading to learn the streaming options available.
How to Watch Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero
Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero was produced by HBO and can be streamed through the company’s official streaming platform, Max. If you already have Max, you can watch the documentary for free when you log into your account.
Don’t have a Max subscription? The streaming platform doesn’t offer a free trial, but it does provide a mix of affordable plans starting at $9.99/month that you can personalize to your budget and needs. Click here or the button below to start your subscription. You can also take advantage of promos and offers that’ll earn you a free Max membership (learn more here).
Max comes with three memberships to choose from: With Ads, Ad-Free and Ultimate Ad-Free. The With Ads plan is the ad-supported membership and cheapest option at $9.99/month, or you can save 20% with a yearly plan for $99.99/year. With it, you’ll have access to the entire Max library including original movies, TV series, content and more. You’ll also be able to stream on up to two devices at once in HD.
The Ad-Free plan includes everything in the With Ads plan minus commercials and up to 30 downloads to watch content on the go for only $15.99/month or $149.99/year. Or, you can take advantage of the Ultimate Ad-Free option that includes 4K Ultra HD quality, 100 downloads to watch on the go and the ability to stream on up to four devices at once.
Other content you can look forward to watching include Barbie, Succession, South Park, The Last of Us, Love & Death, Game of Thrones: House of the Dragon, Euphoria, True Detective, The White Lotus, Gossip Girl, Parasite, The Menu, The Gilded Age and more.
Prime members and Hulu subscribers can also add Max to their subscription through the premium channel options, which will keep all your content viewing in one place.
Watch the trailer for Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero below.
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Drama and backstabbing await you in Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, the highly anticipated second installment of Ryan Murphy’s Emmy-winning anthology series. Settle in as this tumultuous season premieres Wednesday (Jan. 31) at 10 p.m. ET on FX and the next day on Hulu, and there are a few streaming options for cord cutters to choose from.
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Just like the first season — which focused on Bette Davis and Joan Crawford — the drama will delve into another very real, rocky relationship. Except this time it won’t be centered on two actresses; season 2 will be an adaptation of the nonfiction book Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era by Laurence Leamer.
From the first episode, you’ll be transported to 1970s high-society Manhattan when author Truman Capote (Tom Hollander) was at the height of his career after publishing In Cold Blood. At the time, he considered his closest friends to be some of New York City’s wealthiest women, whom he called “the swans.” With high society at his fingertips, he quickly becomes the swans’ confidante, but he ultimately betrays them in 1975 when he publishes a scandalous short story titled La Côte Basque, 1965, exposing some of his friends’ innermost secrets to the world. Not only will you be given a look into the lead-up to his publishing, but the aftermath and ultimately the events leading to Capote’s death in 1984.
Starring alongside Hollander is Naomi Watts, Diane Lane, Chloë Sevigny, Calista Flockhart, Demi Moore, Molly Ringwald, Treat Williams, Joe Mantello and Russell Tovey.
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How to Watch Feud: Capote vs. The Swans
Feud: Capote vs. The Swans is an FX Original, which means just like Murphy’s popular series American Horror Story, you’ll need the FX channel or Hulu in order to watch it. If you have cable, you can watch the series premiere on Wednesday (Jan. 31) on the FX channel for free. Make sure to check with your cable provider’s channel guide for the right channel. Don’t have cable? You may be able to get FX with an HD antenna like one here on Amazon.
Cord cutters can also watch the series the next day on Hulu — the official streamer for FX. Already have Hulu? You can watch the series for no additional cost when you sign into your account.
For those new to the streaming platform, Hulu offers a 30-day free trial that’ll let you watch the Feud: Capote vs. The Swans and more for free. One the free trial has ended, you’ll be charged the regular subscription price based on the plan you choose. Click here or the button below to start your free trial.
For more content offerings, you can even save money when you bundle Hulu with Disney+ and ESPN. Plus, if you want live TV channel options as well, you can subscribe to Hulu + Live TV, which also includes a 30-day free trial.
Hulu members will have access to all original and exclusive content as well as FX Originals, Fox, ABC shows and more including Feud: Bette vs. Joan, What We Do in the Shadows, American Horror Stories, Bob’s Burgers, The Bear, The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, The Act, The Kardashians, Only Murders in the Building, Tiny Beautiful Things, Tell Me Lies, The Great, Cruel Summer and more.
You can also take advantage of live TV streamers’ free trials and promos going on that’ll give you access to FX and more to stream the premiere live. DirecTV Stream offers a five day free trial and you can score up to seven days free with Sling TV, Vidgo and Fubo TV. Plan prices range from $20-$80/month, which means you won’t have to pay hundreds of dollars a month to watch your favorite content.
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It’s time to return to the slopes as the X Games Aspen are finally back for the 2024 season. From Friday (Jan. 26) to Sunday (Jan. 28), professional winter athletes will be gearing up for a chance to take home the gold, and there are a couple streaming options for you to watch the games live without cable.
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ESPN and ABC will be airing 13 hours of the X Games Aspen 2024, which means you won’t have to hunt for travel deals in order to watch the sporting events live. Joining this year’s lineup of impressive athletes are two-time defending SuperPipe Snowboard champion and five-time X Games gold medalist Scotty James, as well as 22-time X Games medalist Mark McMorris, who will be looking to defend his gold medal.
Samsung Men’s Ski Slopestyle will see Colby Stevenson attempt to repeat his gold medal performance from last year, and historymaker Reira Iwabuchi is also set to come back after snagging gold last year during Pacifico Women’s Snowboard Big Air while also becoming the first female snowboarder to successfully land a frontside triple under flip in competition. X Games and Olympic gold medalist Eileen Gu will also make her return to the Samsung Women’s Ski Slopestyle event after having to miss the 2023 X Games Aspen due to an injury.
This year, the sporting event is also encouraging you to upgrade your winter skincare routine by making Thayers the first official beauty and skincare partner of the X Games. The budget-friendly line is available at Walmart and includes the popular Hydrating Milky Toner, Soak It Up 80 Hr Liquid Moisturizer and the Hydrating Milky Cleanser. Each one is formulated to withstand the challenges of extreme sports and weather conditions, while providing a simple three-step routine to help keep your skin hydrated and healthy all year round.
Keep reading to learn when and how to watch the games online.
When & How to Watch X Games Aspen 2024
ABC and ESPN will be livestreaming certain events throughout the weekend, which is broken down below.
ESPN
Friday (Jan. 26), 9:30 p.m. ET to 12:30 a.m. ET: Thayers Men’s Snowboard Knuckle HuckPacifico, Men’s Ski Big Air and Monster Energy Men’s Snowboard SuperPipe
Saturday (Jan. 27), 10 p.m. ET to 12:30 a.m. ET: Pacifico Men’s Snowboard Big Air and Thayers Men’s Ski Knuckle Huck
Sunday (Jan. 28), 7 p.m. ET to 9:30 p.m. ET: Men’s Ski SuperPipe and Pacifico Women’s Snowboard Big Air
ABC
Saturday (Jan. 27), 12:30 p.m. ET to 2:30 p.m. ET: Samsung Men’s Ski Slopestyle
Sunday (Jan. 28), 1 p.m. ET to 4 p.m. ET: Men’s Snowboard Slopestyle and Samsung Women’s Ski Slopestyle
If you have cable, you can watch all the events aired live for no additional cost (refer to your cable provider’s channel guide for exact channels). Cord-cutters may be able to watch the X Games Aspen 2024 through a HD antenna like the one here from Amazon.
For the ESPN events, you can also catch the games live through the channel’s official streaming platform ESPN+. Current subscribers can watch the 2024 X Games Aspen for free when you log into your account. From there, you’ll want to head over to the live coverage and you’ll be able to instantly access it.
Don’t have a subscription? ESPN+ doesn’t offer a free trial, but sports fans can take advantage of its affordable plan, which is only $10.99/month or you can save over 15% off with an annual plan for $109.99/year. Click here or the button below to start your subscription.
Along with the X Games Aspen 2024, ESPN+ members can watch live games for other sports, UFC fights, NFL drafts, NFL playoffs, NHL games and exclusive on-demand videos, as well as access content from what was formerly known as ESPN Insider. In addition to games, ESPN+ has original shows to stream on demand, including game recaps, NBA finals and analyses hosted by Peyton Manning, a shorter version of NFL Primetime, as well as full replays of historic NFL games.
ESPN+ also offers bundling with Hulu and Disney+, which can save you more money while expanding your content offerings. For live channel options (including ABC) you can bundle with Hulu + Live TV.
Looking for more money-saving options? There are some live TV streamers that offer free trials and promos that can save you some cash while you stream the X Games Aspen 2024 and up to hundreds of more channels from your couch. FuboTV, Vidgo, DirecTV Stream and Sling TV start at around $20-$70 and provide live and on-demand streaming, including ESPN, ABC and other sports channels as well as DVR recording.
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Barry Keoghan and Austin Butler have received high praise for their respective performances in Saltburn and Elvis, but now the actors are teaming up in a new TV series titled Masters of the Air coming to Apple TV+.
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The new show premieres Friday (Jan. 26) and is based on the bestselling book of the same title by Donald L. Miller. The drama series follows the men of the 100th Bomb Group (also known as the Bloody Hundredth) as they conduct risky bombing raids over Nazi Germany. You’ll see the characters struggle to deal with frigid weather conditions, a lack of oxygen, as well as the terror of war combat taking place at 25,000 feet in the air.
Castmembers besides Keoghan and Butler that you can look forward to seeing include Callum Turner, Sawyer Spielberg, Raff Law, Ncuti Gatwa, Anthony Boyle, Ben Radcliffe, Nate Mann, Louis Hofmann and Lauren McQueen.
Keep reading to learn the streaming options available.
How to Watch Masters of the Air
Masters of the Air will premiere on Jan. 26 with new episodes dropping every Friday after for a total of 10 episodes. Since it’s an Apple TV+ made miniseries that means it’s exclusive to the streaming platform. Current subscribers can tune into the series for no additional cost — just log into your account and you can find it under new releases.
Don’t have an Apple TV+ subscription? The streaming platform is offering a seven day free trial, which means you can watch the series and more for free. Once the free trial is done, you’ll be charged the normal membership fee of $9.99/month. Click here or the button below to start your free trial.
Masters of the Air won’t be the only show you get access to, having a subscription means you’ll gain access to all the exclusive and original content within the Apple TV+ library such as The Afterparty, The Crowded Room, Ted Lasso, Platonic, The Last Thing He Told Me, Silo, Severance, High Desert, Shrinking, The Big Door Prize, Bad Sisters, Schmigadoon!, The Problem with John Stewart, The Morning Show, Ghosted, Still, Tetris, Palmer, Only Murders in the Building, Snoopy Presents: One-of-a-Kind Marcie and more.
Check out the trailer for Masters of the Air below.
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