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CBS Corp. COO Joseph forecast more investment in the company’s direct-to-consumer services, CBS All Access and Showtime, albeit not in the thin air of Netflix’s level of spending. “This is an arms race to get there,” he said today in a keynote appearance at Deutsche Bank’s Media, Telecom & Business Services Conference.

The website’s efforts to police misinformation have become more visible since the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., last month.

Jeff Franklin is gone as showrunner of Netflix’s Fuller House and Warner Bros. TV has declined to renew its overall deal with the TV veteran. According to multiple sources, the studio’s decision comes after it has received complaints about Franklin’s behavior in the writers’ room and on the set of the series, which is a sequel to the family-friendly “TGIF” sitcom Full House that was a staple of ABC’s schedule in the 1980s and ’90s.

Time Warner’s Turner and Warner Bros. are focusing their movie-streaming firepower on one service for film buffs: FilmStruck. The corporate cousins reached a deal to stock Turner’s FilmStruck with more than 600 classic Hollywood films each month from the Warner Bros. library.

After The Handmaid’s Tale made it a player, Hulu has another ambitious show in The Looming Tower. But merger mania makes for a murky future.

CBS Sports HQ is available on CBSSports.com; the CBS Sports app for key connected TV devices including Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV and Roku; the CBS Sports mobile app for iOS and Android; CBSN and the CBS All Access subscription service.

CBS has been one of the most aggressive networks in capturing new and existing viewers as they shift toward OTT consumption, launching both All Access and the free CBSN streaming news channel in the fall of 2014. (Showtime’s OTT app also falls under CBS Interactive’s purview.) Today, it’s set to add another streaming channel with the launch of CBS Sports HQ, which will be followed by an entertainment-themed channel later this year.

Eliminating conspiracy videos in the wake of the Parkland shooting is like a game of content moderation whack-a-mole.

In the battle for video content, Amazon appears poised to up the stakes. According to estimates from JPMorgan’s Doug Anmuth, Amazon is expected to invest approximately $5 billion in video content this year, with an emphasis on big-budget original shows and sports rights.

Watching popular TV shows such as The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones has become so easy online that millions are not only logging in to a plethora of new services, they’re also paying for it — including 2.2 million subscribers at Sling TV, parent Dish Network revealed for the first time Wednesday.

Mark and Jay Duplass are entering into a new agreement with Netflix that gives the streaming giant worldwide rights to their next four upcoming films.

Ryan Murphy’s nine-figure Netflix payday prooves that traditional TV’s creative standard-bearers face a moment in which they appear unable to stop their digital challengers from poaching top talent at will. 

Right now, each of the players is acting smartly given its position — but all eyes are on Amazon.

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.

The network’s entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt says NBC has learned how to generate more cash from digital views, and keep track of it.

Many streaming video providers offer movies and television shows with embedded text descriptions for those who cannot hear the words being spoken.

Twitter is starting to show live, local news broadcasts in a live streaming window next to its timeline during major breaking news events. Twitter’s initiative to air these videos is currently rolled out across the platform, a company spokesperson confirmed to BuzzFeed News. The company will rely on a set of partnerships with local news stations to select the footage.

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 […]