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Fox News is set to announce Fox Nation, a stand-alone subscription service available without a cable package. The streaming service, expected to start by the end of the year, would focus primarily on right-leaning commentary, with original shows and cameos by popular personalities like Sean Hannity.

An analysis in nScreenMedia estimates Netflix has taken $3 billion to $6 billion per year off the table in TV ad revenue as a result of viewing on its platform. In the past, such viewing would have gone to ad-supported TV networks.

Having signed Ryan Murphy and Shonda Rhimes, this streaming service is creating a parallel TV universe. But imitation isn’t the route to brilliance.

YouTube TV, which launched last spring in five markets, has added Turner networks including TNT, Adult Swim, TBS, CNN, Cartoon Network, truTV and TCM to its offerings. The streaming service also said NBA TV and MLB Network will soon be added to the base package. The catch: the monthly fee will go up $5 to $40 for new subss on March 13.

Live streaming sports TV service FuboTV has added another six stations, bringing the total to 193 (including those owned and operated by or affiliated with CBS, FOX or NBC), plus access to Fox network […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A planned second season of “13 Reasons Why” on Netflix will be unaffected by the recent allegations of sexual misconduct against author Jay Asher. Netflix said […]

The streaming giant Netflix has won yet another battle against old Hollywood. On Tuesday night, Netflix announced that it had poached the hit-making producer Ryan Murphy from 21st Century Fox. The five-year agreement is worth as much as $300 million, according to two people with knowledge of the deal. That would make it one of the biggest deals ever made for a television producer.

NEW YORK (AP) — YouTube has temporarily suspended all ads from video star Logan Paul’s channels after what it calls a pattern of behavior unsuitable for advertisers. In an emailed […]

FuboTV, in agreement with NBCUniversal, is offering a multi-platform content offering for NBCUniversal’s coverage of the XXIII Olympic Winter Games from PyeongChang, South Korea, beginning today and running through Sunday, […]

The Disney streaming service is beginning to crystallize. The studio has been conducting meetings within the creative community to give a sense of its new OTT service that will launch in fall 2019. Perhaps not surprisingly at this point, there was no mention of how the assets of Fox will fit into the new service.

YouTube video hourly consumption has risen by around 30% for each of the last four months, but it still represents a fraction of total TV viewing. Analyzing data from Nielsen Digital Content Ratings, Pivotal Research Group says YouTube usage was up 28% in January versus the same month a year ago — to 177 million hours per day, or 5.3 billion hours on a monthly basis.

It makes the movie instantly profitable for the studio, Paramount, which avoids a (likely) theatrical misfire and costly marketing campaign.

Disney outpaced Wall Street expectations in the fiscal first quarter of 2018, helped by the release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi and a $1.6 billion boost from the new federal tax law. Media Networks, the division that includes ABC, BAMTech and the cable networks, has historically been a fairly steady profit engine. It had flat performance this quarter, and the cable portion saw revenues inch up just 1% to $4.5 billion and operating income decline 1% to $900 million.

AT&T’s CEO touted the upcoming next-generation version of DirecTV Now, set to debut this spring, as a way to open up a new market for the vMVPD service. “With new functionality, we think we can get higher penetration,” Randall Stephenson said during the company’s 4Q earnings call Wednesday. “We’re actually very bullish on DirecTV Now. We’re convinced the economics will continue to improve as we move over the next couple of years.”

Amazon is giving Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan the spotlight in Prime Video’s first Super Bowl commercial. “Given the colossal scope and scale of the series coupled with the popularity of Tom Clancy’s novels, we knew Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan would be a natural fit for Prime Video’s first Super Bowl ad,” said Mike Benson, Amazon Studios’ head of marketing.

Charter CEO Tom Rutledge has sent a private memo to company employees detailing the cable operator’s plans for 2018, which include a two-way interactive set-top for all video subscriber homes that will offer video on demand and “multiple Internet-only services like Netflix.”

The company, which has made being commercial-free a key selling point, has quietly become a massive advertiser of its own, trying to reach consumers that it thinks will want to subscribe to its service.

CBS airs the latest Star Trek spinoff on its paid subscription service CBS All Access. But how many are we supposed to buy? This fan says no. For now.

The subscription video service plans to grow marketing costs to $2 billion this year from $1.3 billion in 2017. However, TV is still a tiny part of Netflix’s marketing revenues.

Tegna will use the free streaming network to distribute its local content across its platform, offering viewers localized news and other digital content from Tegna stations. It will also feature Tubi TV’s advertising technology platform, which combines data targeting with an analytics platform to provide user-targeted, differentiated ads.

Now that it boasts one of television’s largest audiences, Netflix isn’t spending much time worrying about the demise of the government rules that once protected it. With millions of subscribers still flocking to its service, Netflix figures internet providers are unlikely to do anything that might alienate large numbers of their own customers who also turn to Netflix for trendy shows such as Stranger Things, The Crown and Black Mirror.

Over the past few weeks, there has been a string of announcements from nontraditional TV distributors highlighting their ambitions to capitalize on the shift from traditional TV to over-the-top distribution. Meanwhile, even the supposed “killer app” of traditional TV, the NFL, saw a second straight season of declining ratings. Taken together, these developments raise the question: What would it take for the NFL to follow in Disney’s footsteps and go direct-to-consumer?

Streaming viewers who pay by the month for Amazon Prime benefits, which include free shipping as well as entertainment offerings, will now pay $12.99 a month. The new rate is 18% higher than the previous rate of $10.99. The cost of a full-year Prime membership will remain $99 and the yearly rate for students will also stay at $49.

YouTube is officially taking steps to to tighten the rules for channels monetized through its video platform — a move it announced earlier this week.