Cable television services

Picture Alliance | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesIt's the third act of the streaming wars. That's the time a hero, seemingly beaten and broken, rises up and saves the day. But Wall Street is worried that hero may never come for Hollywood.Legacy media companies including Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, Comcast and Paramount Global are trying to figure out the solution to self-inflicted financial wounds, particularly big spending as they chased streaming subscribers to compete with Netflix.Companies have since slashed…

Jacob Kupferman | Getty ImagesThe Miami Dolphins and the New York Jets face off in the National Football League's first ever Black Friday game this week — but it's not going to be the usual broadcast or cable offering. The game will stream exclusively on Amazon's Prime Video.The NFL's decision to start a new Thanksgiving tradition with a streaming platform instead of a broadcast or cable channel is yet another indicator of trouble for linear, or traditional, TV, which has suffered from slumping ad revenue and customers…

Fiber-based networks make up the majority of the internet's backbone. Fiber-optic subsea cables spanning thousands of miles connect continents together, exchanging data at nearly the speed of light. Meanwhile, the massive data centers that host all of our cloud-based applications also rely on fiber connections. Increasingly, these fiber connections are making their way directly into peoples' homes, providing them with fast, reliable internet. But, only 43% of U.S. households have access to a fiber internet connection."In…