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New to The Street TV / Newsmax TV announces its Eight Interviews for This Week’s TV Broadcast, Episode #363, Sunday, July 10, 2022, 10-11 AM ET

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New to The Street TV / Newsmax TV announces its Eight Interviews for This Week’s TV Broadcast, Episode #363, Sunday, July 10, 2022, 10-11 AM ET

New to The Street's 363rd TV episode lineup features:1). Unstoppable Branding Agency (UBA) 2). Epic Cash (CRYPTO: EPIC) ($EPIC) 3). Verde Bio Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: VBHI) 4). Sekur Private Data, Ltd. (OTCQX: SWISF) (CSE: SKUR) (FRA: GDT0) 5). CryptoMondays 6). Paypolitan (CRYPTO: EPAN) ($EPAN) 7).Linqto8).“Weekly Sekur Privacy & Sekur Security Segment (OTCQX: SWISF) -https://www.newsmaxtv.com/Shows/New-to-the-Street & https://www.newtothestreet.com/
New to The Street’s 363rd TV episode lineup features:1). Unstoppable Branding Agency (UBA) 2). Epic Cash (CRYPTO: EPIC) ($EPIC) 3). Verde Bio Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: VBHI) 4). Sekur Private Data, Ltd. (OTCQX: SWISF) (CSE: SKUR) (FRA: GDT0) 5). CryptoMondays 6). Paypolitan (CRYPTO: EPAN) ($EPAN) 7).Linqto8).“Weekly Sekur Privacy & Sekur Security Segment (OTCQX: SWISF) -https://www.newsmaxtv.com/Shows/New-to-the-Street & https://www.newtothestreet.com/

NEW YORK, July 08, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — FMW Media’s New to The Street / Newsmax TV announces the broadcasting lineup of its national syndicated 1-hour TV show this Sunday, July 10, 2022, airing time 10-11 AM ET.

New to The Street’s 363rd TV episode lineup features eight interviews of the following Companies and their businesses representatives:

1). Branding Agency – Unstoppable Branding Agency’s (UBA) interview with Rhonda Swan, CEO/Founder.

2). Cryptocurrency – Epic Cash’s (CRYPTO: EPIC) ($EPIC) interview with Mike Mumola, Impact Ambassador.

3). Verde Bio Holdings, Inc.’s (OTCQB: VBHI) interview with Scott Cox, CEO.

4). Sekur Private Data, Ltd.’s (OTCQX: SWISF) (CSE: SKUR) (FRA: GDT0) interview with Alain Ghiai, CEO.

5). Cryptocurrency – DLTx’s interview with James Haft, Chairman.

6). Cryptocurrency – Paypolitan’s (CRYPTO: EPAN) ($EPAN) interview with Nils Tharandt Ortiz, CEO/Co-founder.

7). Private Securities – Linqto’s interview with Susan Miller, Chief Growth Officer (CGO), and Lisa Carmen Wang, Founder, “Bad Bitch Empire.”

8). “Weekly Sekur Privacy & Sekur Security Segment” interview with internet privacy expert Mr. Alain Ghiai, CEO, Sekur Private Data Ltd. (OTCQX: SWISF) (CSE: SKUR) (FRA: GDT0) (Sekur®).

The New to The Street TV show welcomes Rhonda Swan, CEO/Founder at Unstoppable Branding Agency (UBA), who sits down for her interview with TV host Jane King at the Nasdaq Marketplace studio. Rhonda is the podcast host of “The Rhonda Swan Show (formerly – “The Help Me Rhonda Show”) an author, an international keynote…

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UFC Broadcast Partner Goes Pay-Per-View And Pushes Fans To Piracy

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It will not come as news to the regular Techdirt reader that the folks behind Ultimate Fighting Championship truly hate pirate streams of its fight-nights. For years now, UFC has done everything from punishing some of its own biggest fans to petitioning the government and courts to strictly block any unauthorized broadcasts. In other words, UFC’s stance is that it will take any action necessary to prevent people from pirating its product.

In which case, UFC may want to have a word with at least one of its broadcast partners. BT Sport, the UFC’s broadcast partner in the UK, recently made the decision to suddenly hit its subscribers with an additional pay-per-view fee to watch the bigger UFC matches. The move was met with catastrophic results.

BT Sport, the broadcasting rights owner for UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) events in the UK has decided that it would be a good idea to charge its subscribers an additional fee to watch big matches. BT Sport has been offering UFC content in the UK since 2013, with the regular subscribers experiencing no weird or optional limitations. However, the company decided to take a turn this Saturday with the UFC 239 match between Jon Jones and Thiago Santos. To watch the fight, subscribers were asked for an additional “pay per view” fee of £19.95.

Instead of seeing more money flowing in, BT Sport was met with rejection as its regular subscribers decided to turn to piracy and watch the match through illicit channels. In addition to this momentary failure, BT Sport experienced subscription cancellations, as many were paying for a package only to access UFC events. Obviously, this didn’t play out the way that the broadcasting platform thought it would, and it serves as an example for all live sport streaming platforms which could be processing and evaluating such moves right now.

That this happened is useful for pointing out a number of things. For starters, it again highlights that piracy is a function of price and convenient availability. It’s one thing to lock a UFC match behind a broadcast subscription, but to then slap a PPV fee on those already subscribing is obviously going to piss people off. And, more to the point, change the equation as to the price and availability of the UFC match. It should come as no surprise, then, that this pushes the public to illicit channels to watch these fights.

That said, the levels at which this occurred and were able to be reported on were significant.

According to TorrentFreak, who highlighted the incident, several pirate IPTV service providers told them that there was a noticeable spike in the demand for BT Sport content during the weekend, and this was only the beginning.

Which brings us to the next lesson that should be learned here: if a broadcaster rather cravenly looks to extract money from current customers for something it hadn’t previously charged for, and for which it is providing no additional new value, the slap back from customers is going to be swift and severe.

The subscribers of BT Sport packages did what they did not only out of choice but also as part of an agreed boycott that was organized on social media platforms like Reddit. By boycotting UFC 239, the subscribers hope that they will force the broadcaster to reconsider, and take PPV charging out of their strategy in the future. This is not the case for everyone though, as some express their satisfaction with the quality of the content and the experience of consuming it on pirating platforms.

Which brings us to a third lesson that should be learned: once you push people to piracy, you might not be able to get them back. Pirating UFC fights, and many other things as well, is something of a pain in the ass. All things else being equal, people generally want to go through the proper channels for their entertainment. But all else is not equal and when people discover the low-level pain that is pirating, it may cause them to explore that avenue for all kinds of other entertainment.

All of this because BT Sport wanted to turn a previously-included sport into PPV? I would hope UFC would be discussing this with its broadcast partners, as concerned as it is about people not pirating its fights.

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Netflix Reminds Everyone That The Internet Isn’t A Broadcast Medium With New Choose Your Own Adventure Shows

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For over a decade, we have been making the point that the internet is a communications platform, not a broadcast medium. This seemingly obvious statement of fact has long been the subject of legacy content provider objections, which is part of what has led to much of the ongoing conflicts centering around intellectual property and digital business models. With big content players feeling control over their content slipping away in the internet, they have attempted to wrestle back that control by pretending the internet is something it isn’t. For that reason, it’s always a useful thing to point out to examples that remind people that the internet simply isn’t a movie theater or television.

The latest example of that is provided by, of course, Netflix. Netflix is reportedly working on some new shows that are something of a “choose your adventure” type experience, which is something that traditional television simply isn’t capable of.

Two of the interactive projects currently in negotiations are based on existing video game properties, the report suggests. That seems to include the previously announced Minecraft: Story Mode, which was largely completed with the help of Telltale before that company’s massive layoffs last month. Netflix has frequently said it is not interested in getting directly into the video game business, however.

It’s currently unclear just how much narrative branching will be possible in these Netflix specials, or how divergent the storylines can become based on viewer interaction. Filming extra content for such branching storylines can add significantly to the production cost of traditional linear TV narratives to create content that some viewers may never end up seeing.

“Interactive” is the key word here, one which precisely shows the separation between broadcast and communications mediums. It’s a small thing, it might seem, and doesn’t really touch on the typical intellectual property concerns we discuss at Techdirt, but it also beautifully highlights how the internet and broadcast mediums are simply different. And, if you accept that difference, the obvious conclusion is that they should not be treated and/or regulated as though they were the same. That important distinction has an impact across the world of how the internet functions and is treated by government and the law.

In fact, this type of interactive narrative storytelling has more in common with the video game market, or even the tabletop gaming market, than television and film.

Live TV programs and game shows have long integrated interactive elements via telephone calls, webpages, and custom apps. But fully interactive narrative stories have been more closely associated with video games, from text-based stories like Zork to Hollywood-style blockbusters like Detroit: Become Human and everything in between. This narrative flexibility has also been included in video game experiments focused on filmed live-action stories, ranging from the campy Night Trap to this year’s innovative WarGames reboot.

So tuck this one away for the next time you hear someone harping on about how entertainment over the internet should be treated no differently than entertainment offered via broadcast. They’re not the same. And, ultimately, that’s a good thing, as that dissimilarity is what allows for cool new experiments such as what Netflix is trying to create here.

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General Dynamics awarded $900 million USAF contract for Joint Global Broadcast Service program

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General Dynamics C4 Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, was awarded a contract from the Global Broadcast Service (GBS) Joint Program Office at Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts for the production of approximately 1,500 Transportable Ground Receive Suites (TGRS) and 1,110 retrofit kits for systems already in the field.

The competitively awarded, five-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract has a total potential value of $900 million if the maximum number of units is ordered.

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