streaming

The company’s chief creative officer is now chief operating officer of the videoâ€Âdriven news and entertainment portal designed for millennials.

To celebrate the launch of Bounce TV’s new subscription-video-on-demand service Brown Sugar and give viewers a taste of the new service, Bounce TV will present a 14-hour, seven-movie marathon of […]

Eager to deliver its  customers over-the-top video, CenturyLink is looking at becoming a reseller of DirecTV Now, the virtual MVPD service launched last week by telco rival AT&T.

Last week’s launch of DirecTV Now was plagued with errors, but AT&T says it’s thrilled with the early interest in its new streaming bundle offering. “The early demand has been rather dramatic … we’ve been pleased with it,” Randall Stephenson, AT&T’s chairman, CEO and president, said this morning at the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference in New York

Netflix’s Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos says that the company currently has 30 scripted shows in release or various stages of development, and it’s planning to go big on unscripted content with 20 such shows slated for next year. Content will ramp up to at least 1,000 hours next year, more than double what Netflix has done in 2016.

AT&T’s new live TV streaming service debuted Wednesday with a free seven-day trial and attractive $35 introductory price, but plenty of first-time users are experiencing trouble.

YouTube now supports 4K live-streaming, allowing content creators to broadcast using high-resolution video in both 360-degree and standard video formats at a rate of 60 frames per second.

It’s unclear if the new service, DirecTV Now, will break out with consumers. But it has the size to get better deals from entertainment companies, who have slowly come around to the idea of streaming. And if that doesn’t work, watch for a live-TV operation from Hulu early next year. And maybe one from Google. Or, who knows, maybe even Apple, too.

DirecTV Now has secured one of the final two major programming linchpins, ahead of its impending launch, with the virtual pay TV service signing a broad digital deal with 21st Century Fox. What isn’t clear: How will parent company AT&T handle broadcast networks during the initial phase of the IP-based platform’s launch?

Entertainment Studios’ cable networks Comedy.TV and JusticeCentral.TV will be available on the new streaming service, DirecTV Now, when it launches later this month. “We value our continued and expanding relationship with AT&T,” said Byron Allen, […]

Roker Media in New York City bills itself as the “first live streaming network” that “lives at the intersection of brands, influencers and audiences.” It produces live programming as well as a slate of shows that appear on different platforms, which are produced relatively inexpensively. Chairman Al Roker (yes, that Al roker) and co-founder Ronald Pruett Jr. talk about what they’re doing and why.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Amazon.com has been in talks for live game rights with the National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball, the National Football League and more. Journal subscribers can read the full story here.

Earlier reports that NBCUniversal had invested a second $200 million in BuzzFeed after an initial $200 million investment are true, NBCU confirmed today. With the new funding, the companies will extend their ad sales relationship and collaborate on the branded content front,.

Until now Amazon’s OTT service has been available in only a handful of countries, but its new show The Grand Tour, will stream in more than 200 countries around the world, Jeff Bezos said Thursday. Amazon began pursuing the worldwide rights to shows this year, a signal of its expansion plans.

Warner Bros. has agreed on a deal to acquire embattled gaming-centric multi-channel network Machinima. Terms were not disclosed.

Featuring what it calls “the biggest collection of the baddest African-American movies of all time,” a new subscription,video-on-demand streaming service, Brown Sugar, launches today. Brown Sugar, owned by Bounce TV, […]

Here’s a holiday buying guide for the TV-streamers in your life.

A new report from SNL Kagan, which provides quarterly pay TV subscription updates, finds that third-quarter subscribers fell once again, off 430,000. That included big losses for telco subscriptions, which fell by 382,000, and smaller declines for cable. Year to date, subscriptions have fallen by 1.3 million, the biggest first-to-third quarter loss on record.

CBSN has unveiled new apps for the Android TV and Amazon Fire TV that will feature 360-degree videos, starting with behind-the-scenes 60 Minutes footage shot in that format. “The CBS News Digital team believes the format will become an increasingly important means of storytelling, including within the news genre it focusing on,” Sarah Perez reports.

On Election Day, the 24/7 streaming service beats its prior records of 3 million streams and 1.4 million unique viewers for the first presidential debate.

JVC Professional Video today announced JVC VideoCloud, an online video and live streaming platform designed for small and medium-size enterprises, such as houses of worship, wedding videographers and schools. Complete with a content […]

The launch is part of a cross-platform agreement that includes carriage of Univision networks across AT&T and DirecTV platforms.

Scripps Networks Interactive will not be renewing a streaming deal with Netflix when it expires at year’s end, COO Burton Jablin said on the company’s earnings conference call Monday. He explained that the company made the “strategic decision” because the arrangement does not provide the kind of dual revenue model that Scripps feels best monetizes its content.

Hulu has signed on Disney and 21st Century Fox for its live TV streaming service, which will launch in early 2017. The deals will add some three dozen networks to the service, including the ABC and Fox broadcast networks. Earlier, Hulu had signed on Time Warner networks, including CNN, TNT, TBS and Turner Classic Movies.

If Trump is to lose and branch into a much-speculated-upon Trump TV product, cable won’t be any kind of immediate option. so Sahil Patel runs through the potential hurdles Trump faces in OTT. The back end tech is readily available, for instance, but it’s also expensive — about $1 per month per subscriber from Brightcove, for instance. Marketing and content costs can also run high, and Trump need only turn to Glenn Beck’s example to see the rewards and perils inherent in the enterprise.

Streaming of TV and video content continues to rise and while conventional TV sets continue to dominate the way consumers view it, digital devices — desktop/laptop computers, mobile devices and tablets — each are growing their share.

A year after making a major investment in BuzzFeed, NBCUniversal is doing it again. Sources say Comcast’s TV and movie arm is finalizing a deal that will put around $200 million into the digital publisher, at a valuation of around $1.7 billion. Those are roughly the same numbers NBCU used last year, when it first invested in BuzzFeed — except that deal gave BuzzFeed a post-money valuation of $1.5 billion.

Amazon plans to roll back the primacy of its own brand on its Fire TV devices. Now HBO, Netflix and other competitors will get equal placement on the devices’ home screens, following a similar move by Apple.

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, said Tuesday that there’s no timetable for profitability at the company, and it’s actively investing in areas like virtual reality. Still, while the Alphabet subsidiary doesn’t release individual revenue numbers, some reports suggest it is in the billions.

Relativity Media filed suit against Netflix for breach of contract and libel on Tuesday, asserting that the platform used Relativity “to gain standing in Hollywood, and then ruthlessly attempted to dissolve an output deal so lucrative that Relativity became dependent on its guaranteed payments to survive.” The company is claiming in excess of $1.5 billion in damages.

Netflix’s stock surged 20% after hours on Monday as original hit shows like Stranger Things and Narcos helped the streaming video company crush Wall Street expectations.

All episodes of ABC’s new series from the current 2016-17 season, along with several returning shows, will for the first time be available to “authenticated viewers” on digital platform. Prior to this, they could access only the trailing five episodes.

Facebook announced Thursday that News Feed videos can now be cast to Apple TV or Chromecast through any web browser or iOS device. Facebook is playing catch-up here, as competitors like YouTube and Periscope have long had their own streaming options.