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Once a reliable growth engine for Disney, the sports media behemoth has been squeezed by cord-cutting and escalating costs to televise major sports. ESPN+ is the most aggressive step to date by ESPN to recapture the consumers that are dropping its channels along with the rest of their pay TV subscriptions. Here’s what it will include.

NEW YORK (AP) — Martin Scorsese will direct a comedy special for Netflix on the beloved Canadian sketch comedy show “SCTV.” Netflix on Thursday announced the untitled project that will […]

Baby boomers especially are drawn to the shows that fascinated them when they were young. With so many programming options, networks are smart to go back to a familiar property and spruce it up with a new cast and creative team to reel in old as well as young eyes.

Netflix executives were awarded sham bonuses in order to take advantage of tax law loopholes, according to a lawsuit filed by the City of Birmingham Relief and Retirement System, a company shareholder. The federal lawsuit, filed in US District Court in San Francisco, alleges Netflix gave “multi-million dollar windfalls” to certain executives.

NEW YORK (AP) — Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s chief content officer, on Wednesday said the streaming giant is pulling its films from the Cannes Film Festival, further intensifying an ongoing dispute […]

Didja, a technology company dedicated to augmenting the broadcast television experience, has expanded its live streaming app, LocalBTV, to the Los Angeles television market. “SoCalBTV” will now offer access to […]

Tegna’s OTT ad platform is designed to let advertisers be able to target specific audience segments such as auto intenders, travel enthusiasts or homeowners.

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On Friday evening, Netflix announced that it would not be renewing its ’90s-set school comedy Everything Sucks after just one season, and Amazon almost simultaneously revealed that Mozart in the Jungle, which had run for four seasons, would not be returning. The axing of these two shows proves the landscape has changed significantly from just a few years ago, when streaming giants would use a seemingly endless pile of money and keep shows on the air forever.

Netflix is attempting its largest acquisition, offering more than $300 million to acquire Regency Outdoor Advertising, a company that owns billboards across Los Angeles, including West Hollywood’s famed Sunset Strip, according to people familiar with the matter.

FuboTV has launched The CW in eight new local markets, bringing the total to nine across its livestreaming TV service.

A restless creator, a looming corporate megamerger and a Sunset Tower courtship: How Fox’s hitmaker behind American Horror Story, 911 and Feud was convinced to leave his home studio (and his “best friend” executive) for the biggest producer contract in television history: ” ‘More’ is my favorite word.”

ESPN said it would make available hundreds of hours of professional and college sports, its library of programming and even  rugby and cricket matches on its new ESPN+ streaming service, which it intends to launch April 12 at a price of $4.99 per month.

It can be difficult navigating the onslaught of streaming options that keep coming down the pike. Your eyes just glazed over? Get used to it, because the onslaught has only begun.

Bleacher Report Live will feature live broadcasts of UEFA Champions League, NBA League Pass, NCAA Championships, PGA Championship and more.

Netflix is officially out at Cannes — out of the competition lineup, at least. Film festival head Theirry Fremaux said that it and other streamers can still show their films out of competition, but they won’t be in the running for a Palme d’Or. “The Netflix people loved the red carpet and would like to be present with other films. But they understand that the intransigence of their own model is now the opposite of ours,” Fremaux said.

The drama from PBS Distribution is coming exclusively to the PBS Masterpiece Amazon channel And PBS Passport beginning March 23.

LONDON (AP) — Producers of the Netflix drama “The Crown” apologized Tuesday to actors Claire Foy and Matt Smith over the revelation that Foy was paid less than her male […]

Americans are watching more streaming video than ever — and they now pay an estimated $2 billion each month on subscription-video services like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon. That’s according to Deloitte, which found found that 55% of U.S. households now subscribe to at least one video-streaming service (up from 10% in 2009).

After coming under fire for promoting fake news, conspiracy theories, and misinformation around events like the Parkland school shooting, YouTube says it will take a number of steps to fix the problem. But the Google-owned video platform still seems to be trying to have its cake and eat it too when it comes to being a media entity.

The PGA Tour launched its first ad-supported streaming over-the-top video channel on smart TV devices as part of a partnership with streaming TV company Xumo. The channel, which went live on Xumo over the weekend, will include live coverage of matches, as well as highlights, recaps, interviews and tournament previews.

Amazon’s top television shows drew more than 5 million people worldwide to its Prime shopping club by early 2017, according to company documents, revealing for the first time how the retailer’s bet on original video is paying off. The documents also show that Amazon’s U.S. audience for all video programming on Prime, including films and TV shows it licenses from other companies, was about 26 million customers. Amazon has never released figures for its total audience.

With broadcasters around the world moving to IT-based operations, graphics vendors are offering products that manage efficiencies across a broad set of workflows so buyers can use graphics and branding more efficiently and quickly. (ChyronHego photo) Click here to access TVNewsCheck’s NAB 2018 Resource Guide listing of broadcast graphics vendors and products or here to download it as a PDF.

Pay TV pricing is the biggest factor in the consumer decision to cut the cord, and it continues to increase in relevance, according to TiVo’s latest quarterly “Online Video and Pay-TV Trends Report.” According to the technology company’s research division, 86.7% of pay TV refugees listed price as their top reason for cutting the cord, a 6.6% uptick over TiVo’s 4Q 2016 report.