Apple TV

After three years, Amazon and Apple have finally come to an agreement to bring Amazon’s video app to the Apple TV streaming box, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced at the company’s developer conference on Monday. This means Amazon Prime Video subscribers will soon be able to stream TV shows and movies to their TV using an Apple TV device.

As Twitter continues to accelerate its original programming plans, the social media platform is also apparently adding Apple TV support to its iOS app.

News junkies, rejoice. ABC News is rolling out an updated Apple TV application, live today, which makes the news division the first to offer a simultaneous multi-stream viewing experience in its tvOS application.

Facebook has launched its first app for the Apple TV. Its technical name is simply “Facebook,” since it’s bundled with the Facebook iOS app, but marketing images dub it Facebook Video. The app provides the first native way to watch video content from Facebook on an Apple TV.

The social network on Tuesday announced a new app for set-top boxes, including Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV and the Samsung Smart TV. The app will let you watch the same kinds of video you can already find on Facebook, but (presumably) on a much larger screen.

Facebook is developing a video-focused app for devices like Apple TV with a view to hosting longer-form content. The move, reported by The Wall Street Journal‘s Deepa Seetharaman and Jack Marshall, squares with the company’s desire to reframe itself as video-first and to compete more directly with television for its ad dollars. Facebook is in discussion with media companies to produce some of that premium content now. WSJ subscribers can read more here.

Tribune’s Greensboro, N.C., Fox affiliate is now offering news, lifestyle and entertainment segments as video-on-demand content on Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV and Google’s Android TV.

The Tribune New York station is now offering news, lifestyle and entertainment segments as video-on-demand content on Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV and Google’s Android TV.

It’s an incremental step for the platform, but it’s delivering ads that will appear on OTT devices like Apple TV and Roku via its ad network and working with publishers A+E and Tubi TV. It’s only the beginning of a test, but its Audience Network will play a key role and it signals the persistence of its larger vision to capture a greater share of TV dollars.

Fox Sports Go has launched on the fourth generation Apple TV with a couple of new bells and whistles unseen in other iterations of the app. They include a 60-frames-per-second streaming rate and multiview display, which lets viewers watch up to four live streams on one screen at once.

AccuWeather has launched a new AccuWeather app for Apple TV. Apple TV users can now zoom in and out on radar conditions locally or anywhere in the world. The enhanced […]

Apple announced Thursday that its first venture into original programming will be an unscripted series about apps and the app economy. There is no word yet on whether or how the show, which Apple is doing with the singer Will.i.am and two veteran TV executives, Ben Silverman and Howard T. Owens, will portray or promote Apple’s own app business. 

When the new NCAA March Madness Live app goes live today, it will be available on more platforms than ever before. But only Apple TV users will get a coveted feature: the ability to watch two games at once.

KlowdTV, a cord-cutting service that delivers live TV programming to any device for just a few dollars a month, today announced its app launch on iOS. KlowdTV’s iOS app features: […]

E.W. Scripps’ millennial-focused over-the-top news service Newsy has earned a spot on Apple’s list of the top apps of 2015 for its Apple TV platform.

Apple has pushed away from the TV negotiating table because of the composition of the bundle that it wants to package. It wants a “skinny” bundle of just a dozen or so core channels retailing at $30 a month, but the programmers are balking over the nuances of how that comes together.

CBS Corp. chief Leslie Moonves floated the possibility of an advertising-free version of CBS All Access and poured cold water on Apple TV’s plans to launch a cable-like channel package during his appearance Tuesday at the Business Insider conference in New York.

There are plenty of ways to get streaming video onto your big living-room screen. Internet-connected “smart” TVs and gaming consoles such as the Xbox or PlayStation can do the trick. But stand-alone devices tend to offer more features and more video services to choose from. Here’s a rundown of six of them.

Software provider Adobe Marketing Cloud is announcing an SDK update that will support Apple TVs.The SDK includes integrations with Adobe Analytics for data, Adobe Target for A/B testing and Adobe Audience Manager for user profiles.

The new Apple TV features an iPhone-like app store that lets you choose your own streaming services. And it’s no longer pushy about steering you to iTunes and other Apple services. You can easily customize the home screen with your favorites.

It was significant this week when Apple announced that CBS and NBC were joining the Apple TV lineup just a week before the new hardware goes on sale. Apple TV now includes the top four broadcast networks plus PBS — a pretty attractive package for wannabe cord cutters.

 The Seattle e-commerce giant wants to “avoid customer confusion” by directing buyers to other options, including its own Fire TV.

Adjust, a mobile analytics platform, has expanded its mobile ad analytics platform to support apps for the Apple TV. iOS developers will be able to quickly port their iPad and iPhone apps to the Apple TV. Adjust can now provide analytics for those efforts.

With Apple and Amazon already announcing new, upgraded streaming devices, a new report says Google may be ready to debut its revamped Chromecast later this month. The $35 contraption connects televisions to computers and mobile devices.

Waging war on Apple, which announced upgrades to Apple TV last week, Amazon is launching an upgraded version of its own streaming and gaming device. Unlike the Apple TV, the upgraded Fire TV supports 4K ultra-high-definition streaming across many of its apps, including Netflix, Hulu, and, of course, Amazon Instant Video.

Mark Ramsey and Tom Asacker argue that Apple has it wrong in its prognostications on TV’s future. The future isn’t in apps, they say, but in a small number of “apps” that are actually indistinguishable from networks. What consumers want is the content, not the app providing it.

A new version of the Apple TV device has a lot more capabilities than earlier versions. But getting television shows on the device is a challenge.

It’s the first time a company has turned out a set-top box and a home entertainment system that could be considered comprehensive. The new Apple TV takes what competitors do in a piecemeal way, brings it all together and adds more functionality.

As expected, Fusion CEO Isaac Lee outlined, in a Thursday memo to staff, a series of changes to the television network’s “existing in-house, studio-based shows” that includes the discontinuation of its latenight series Come Here and Say That, hosted by Alicia Menendez. Another series, Soccer Gods, will become a “digital-first brand.”

As expected, Apple debuted a bigger-than-ever iPad with a 13-inch screen called the iPad Pro on Wednesday, along with a redesigned Apple TV box revolving around apps and voice controls starting at $150.

Periscope is developing an app for the new iteration of Apple TV that will let viewers watch live streams on their televisions. No specific details of its functionality or launch date are yet available.