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Younger consumers are increasingly comfortable with a "churn and return" subscription strategy, forcing entertainment companies to adjust. BY ALEX WEPRIN Fair warning to Netflix, Disney, Paramount or any of the other entertainment companies looking to compete in streaming video: The problem of subscriber churn isn’t going away anytime soon. According to Deloitte’s 2022 Digital Media Trends survey, the churn rate for streaming services in the U.S. has remained constant at 37 percent, with countries like the U.K., Germany and Japan seeing about a 30 percent churn rate. “The headline is that churn is here to stay,” Jana Arbanas, vice chair of Deloitte LLP and U.S. telecom, media and entertainment sector leader, in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “It wasn’t a one-time bum...

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The telecom giant has been ramping up competition with U.K. pay TV operator BSkyB, in which Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox has a 39 percent stake. BY STUART KEMP LONDON — BT Sport has won exclusive TV rights to live German Bundesliga soccer in the U.K. and Ireland until 2017, following a competitive auction, the firm said Thursday. The telecom giant has been ramping up competition with U.K. pay TV operator BSkyB, in which Rupert Murdoch‘s 21st Century Fox owns a 39 percent stake. The two-year contract, which kicks off Sept. 2015, gives BT Sport around 115 live matches a season from the German top-flight soccer league — 15 more matches than the current deal. BT Sport will also have the rights to the annual German-league Supercup matches plus previews and highlights shows. ...