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Verizon and the NBA have set an expanded, multi-year partnership that will allow U.S. fans to buy and stream live, out-of-market games via NBA League Pass on Yahoo Sports and other Verizon media platforms.

After months of complaints from advertisers over their messages appearing alongside inappropriate or exploitative videos, YouTube has announced a new set of policies designed to improve how it vets content.

After spending years treating over-the-top video streaming as something to address in the far-off future, TV networks are actively shopping their streaming apps to marketers and technology companies at CES.

There’s a new over-the-top streaming service in town, but this one has a twist: it’s streaming over-the-air broadcast feeds of 13 New York City-area stations for free.

Roku founder and CEO Anthony Wood doesn’t fit the image of your typical tech mogul. In person, he comes across as quiet and introverted. But judging by the company’s first earnings report in November, he’s a bona fide billionaire, controlling just over a quarter of outstanding common stock for a company whose share price more than tripled since its September IPO.

Fox Television Group Chairman Dana Walden has bowed out of Amazon’s search process for a leader for its Amazon Studios entertainment arm. Walden had been high on the list of candidates pursued by Amazon after former Amazon Studios chief Roy Price made a hasty exit in November on the heels of sexual harassment allegations.

Hulu CEO Randy Freer signaled that the company could be interested in expanding internationally as it awaits the outcome of the Disney-Fox merger.

The company witnessed a 40% rise to total 17 million subscribers last year — up 5 million — versus 2016, for all its subscription video-on-demand and its newer Hulu with Live TV products.

At the start of a busy CES as well as a transformative period when Disney moves to take majority control of the company, Hulu today announced that it ended fiscal 2017 with more than 17 million total subscribers in the U.S. The figure, which includes all SVOD and live TV plans, represents an increase of more than 40% — or 5 million — since Hulu last reported subscriber numbers in the spring of 2016.

The Upside with Tavis Smiley will be streamed online and shown on The Word Network, a religious-oriented cable and satellite channel directed at black viewers

Continued growth in digital streaming programming drove the number of original scripted U.S. TV series to an all-time high in 2017, according to data released today by FX Networks. Speaking at the Television Critics Association winter press tour, FX CEO John Landgraf presented data culled by his company’s research department asserting that 487 original scripted series aired across broadcast, cable and streaming in 2017 — up 7% from 455 in 2016. The number of streaming series was responsible for much of that uptick, growing 30% from the previous year at 117.

The Golden Globes will be live-streamed for the first time this year. NBC and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association reached a deal that allows the network to stream the awards show in a variety of ways, including through its own website, nbc.com/live, or via its NBC mobile app to pay TV subscribers.

David Letterman has amassed an all-star roster of guests for his Netflix talk show series, titled My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman. The 60-minute show will stream monthly with the first episode launching on Friday, Jan. 12, and the additional five episodes streaming, one a month, after that. Letterman will kick off the series with a chat with Barack Obama.

CBS All Access is joining Amazon Channels with a reduced-ad offering, becoming the first of the digital company’s 140 channels with a live, linear feed. The arrangement enables Prime members to add CBS for $9.99 a month.

The amount of time around the globe spent streaming SVOD content continues to grow at an accelerated pace, with viewing hours up more than 100% last year, according to a new study from Conviva.

Sling TV, the digital pay TV provider, is partnering with comScore, the media researcher, to develop what the companies say is the first cross-platform effort to measure addressable advertising.

The streaming music giant filed a confidential registration with the SEC in late December, with the intention of listing its shares in the first quarter of the year.

Analysts for Citigroup wrote in a research note they believe there’s a 40% chance Apple will buy Netflix with the money it repatriates following the passage of corporate tax reform. Apple could potentially repatriate hundreds of billions of dollars, giving it plenty of wiggle room for a major acquisition like Netflix.

Vice Media has suspended President Andrew Creighton and Chief Digital Officer Mike Germano following a New York Times report last month detailing sexual harassment allegations against them.

David Bohrman, former Current TV president and former CNN Washington bureau chief and chief innovation officer at CNN Worldwide, is launching a new over-the-top video service that will cater to progressive Americans, called the Political Voices Network.

Cord-cutting is not just for millennials anymore. Fed up with high prices and bloated packages, millions of Americans cut the cord on cable TV in 2017, finding refuge with a growing number of streaming services, which deliver lower prices and a competitive channel lineup over the internet.