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Dana E. Neuts

Dana Neuts is Subscription Insider's Editorial Director, covering our daily subscription news as well as member features, case studies, premium content, and reports. Dana is also a writer, editor, marketer and communications professional. Her work has appeared in AARP Bulletin, The Seattle Times, Seattle Business, 425 Business, 425 Magazine, South Sound Magazine, Northwest Travel and more. Her specialties include business writing, community news, senior issues, travel and, of course, subscriptions!

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Miami Herald to Cut Saturday Print Edition, Expand Friday and Sunday

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The Miami Herald, a McClatchy-owned newspaper, is making some big changes in the new year. Starting on March 21, 2020, the Miami Herald will no longer print a Saturday edition. Instead, it will launch a weekend edition which will include expanded Friday and Sunday papers. Popular features like local sports coverage, comics, TV listings and the real estate section will be among the items featured in the expanded papers. Readers who want breaking news coverage from the Miami Herald can find that on MiamiHerald.com and the newspapers social media channels.

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Sling TV Raises Monthly Subscription Price to $30 a Month

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Sling TV customers got a price increase for Christmas this year. Yesterday, Sling TV president Warren Schlichting announced that Sling Orange and Sling Blue subscription customers would start paying $30 per month, effective with their next bill after January 22, 2020. New customers will get hit with the price increase immediately, though they can get a $10 discount for the first month through a promo offer. To save a few bucks, customers who subscribe to both Sling Orange and Sling Blue will pay $45 a month.

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YouTube Channel New Sky Kids Launches Streaming Subscription Service

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Five years after launching their first original, digital series for kids, New Sky Kids founders Felipe Adams, Leigh Adams, and Mike Akel are launching their own streaming video channel and app. With a YouTube audience of more than 2 million worldwide and videos with more than 1.5 billion views, New Sky Kids will feature new episodes of its own popular shows including High Top Princess and Little Heroes: Mighty Missions. The new streaming subscription service is currently available in the U.S. for $5.99 a month, or $59 a year, after a seven-day free trial.

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Weekly Subscription News: Apps, Pricing and Going All In

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With less than a week before Christmas, there are only a handful of shopping days left. We are, however, focused on subscriptions – which make great gifts by the way! In this weeks subscription headlines, Adobes stock jumps in popularity, Netflix goes all in on India, and Yellow and Grin launch a monthly bike and scooter subscription service in Brazil. Also this week, TikTok parent is working on a competitor to Spotify, Bill.coms IPO is off to a good start, and Peloton lowers its digital subscription price.

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Five on Friday: Gaming, FTC Injunctions and Virtual Credit Cards

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We are less than a week away from the Christmas holiday, and the subscription news keeps coming. In today’s edition of Five on Friday, DoNotPay raises $4.6 million in funding and launches a virtual credit card that cancels free subscription trials. Also this week, Coca-Cola launches a beverage subscription to a limited number of subscribers, the FTC considers an injunction against Facebook’s app integrations, Apple Arcade adds an annual subscription payment option, and we share customer service stats to help you plan for 2020.

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Comcast to Start Offering Cheaper TV Packages Starting at $10 in 2020

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Comcast plans to fight cord cutting and compete with direct-to-consumer streaming video services by selling smaller TV packages priced between $10 and $20 per month, reports Cord Cutters News. The packages are part of the companys Comcast Vision 2020 plan. In addition to prepackaged bundles, customers will be able to design their own TV bundles, including local TV channels. Equipment, such as internet routers and DVRs and services like internet and cell services, will cost extra, of course.

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Lime Launches LimePass, a Weekly Scooter Subscription Service

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On Tuesday, micromobility provider Lime announced the launch of LimePass, a weekly subscription service for commuters and regular scooters. Initially, the service is being rolled out in the United States, Australia and New Zealand, but it will be available in other global markets starting in January. Engadget reports the service has been in beta since March. The goal of the program is to address the changing needs of commuters and to reward those who use electric scooters and bikes to meet their daily transportation needs.

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Two Plead Guilty to Piracy with Streaming Video Subscription Services

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Two streaming video pirates are getting coal in their Christmas stockings this year. Four months after their indictment by a grand jury, two Las Vegas men pleaded guilty to video piracy, copyright infringement and money laundering. Eight men total were charged with operating Jetflicks and iStreamItAll, headquartered in Las Vegas. The two men who pleaded guilty – Darryl Julius Polo, aka djppimp, and Luis Angel Villarino – could receive reduced sentences as a result of the plea and by agreeing to fully cooperate in the ongoing investigation.

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WWE Network Adds Free Tier to Streaming Service

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World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Network has added a free tier to its streaming subscription video service to bring in new subscribers, reports Fox Business. The new tier was released via soft launch earlier this month to give non-subscribers a taste of the type of content they can expect from the premium video service. Wrestle Talk reports that many of the videos in the free tier are those that a viewer would fine on WWEs YouTube channel or on WWE.com. Once any bugs are worked out of the free tier, WWE Network will do an official launch. It isnt clear if or how this might impact the premium subscription service.

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New York AG Wins $16M in Magazine and Newspaper Subscription Scam

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Last Thursday New York Attorney General Letitia James won more than $16 million in restitution, penalties and legal costs in a magazine and newspaper subscription scam lawsuit. James represented more than 68,000 New York residents who had been scammed by a network of New York and Oregon companies, some operating under the name Orbital Publishing Group, Inc., who fraudulently solicited magazine and newspaper subscriptions. The New York State Supreme Court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs and permanently barred the fraudulent network of companies from mailing unauthorized and deceptive subscription offers going forward.

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