October 21, 2016

This Week’s Subscription Headlines: Fines, Free Content & FilmStruck

In this week’s subscription news headlines, Fortune’s Mathew Ingram says sticking with print would not have helped newspapers avoid death, the FCC hits Comcast with a hefty $2.3 million fine for charging customers for equipment they didn’t ask for through “negative option billing,” and Forbes debates whether a subscription economy or a sharing economy has more potential. In addition, we’ve got headlines featuring Apple, Turner Movies and Google.

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Legendary Digital Networks Launches Streaming Subscription App, Alpha

Self-professed nerds and geeks can now get their fill of shows from digital publishers Nerdist and Geek & Sundry, thanks to movie studio Legendary Digital Networks (LDN). Legendary, who has produced films like “Warcraft,” “Jurassic WoStarting November 3, for $4.99 a month, subscribers will get 15 to 20 hours of new programming from Nerdist and Geek & Sundry, including episodes of “CriticalRole” and “TableTop.”

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