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Sexual assault. Marianne rafferty is live with a fight that is escalating across the country. Marianne good evening. Reporter good evening trace. In his opinion temporarily blocking rules j David F Bowman says he hopes the state and School Boards can negotiate in good faith and strike a balance between protecting transgender students and the rights of parents to bring up their kids. Three School Districts in Monmouth County were sued by the state back in june after adopting policies that require teachers and staff to inform a parent if their child wanted to use pronouns or School Facilities that did not conform to their sex at birth. That injunction is temporary while the larger case plays out in the state ....
For american tv viewers but hold your wallet because the prices, if you want commercial free, are going way up. welcome to stream flailings, let s bring in vat america s director and pop culture and entertainment expert jacqui jordan. thank you both. seth, i want to put these on the board. this is the ad streaming cost. you see netflix 15.49 now, disney plus doubled their price, 13.99 hbo max 59.99 and hulu and all these other ones. hitting like 75 bucks for these things and sometimes you still have to watch the ads. yeah, what s happening now is i think the studios and the streamers have figured out there are different price points out there that consumers might not be so price sensitive on the subscription side of things, disney seeing it so is netflix so pushing that price up and the mid tier, the average revenue per user on the ad supported stuff so they re emphasizing the ....
Free plans too, all about profitability not just getting subscribers and building programming. probably a smart strategy. trace: jacqui i remember reading, they re all about eyeballs. just sign up everybody, get eyeballs and now they genuinely need revenue to actually survive. well, it s so interesting because they take up 62% of the marketplace for media assets, and the timing for this is really interesting, obviously we re in a recession but also in an actors and writer s strikes and they re fighting over residuals for streaming rights while the companies are raising the price right now for the consumers. so it s ironic timing. trace: it really is. i want to move on to the next subject because is anybody watching following this blind side lawsuit, you know, with michael orr going after the to you touey family. but why are they asking sandra ....