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The news comes four months after the well-liked executive was ousted as president of Universal Television.

Capitol Broadcasting’s NBC affil in Raleigh, N.C., is offering digital, hyper-local, live-stream coverage every Friday of up to seven area high school football games, plus an overview show that provides live updates from all of them along with commentary and analysis.

Ken Parks, the former Spotify content boss who ventured into the streaming TV field, appears to be carving something of a niche for his Pluto TV. Parks says the company now counts 4 million monthly active users.

This week, as The CW begins to debut its season premieres, viewers used to streaming its shows on Hulu will be in for a surprise. The network’s five-year deal with the streaming service has lapsed, which means that for the first time, The CW’s website and apps will have exclusive in-season streaming rights to its shows like Supergirl, which has migrated over from CBS, Jane the Virgin and The Flash.

Horowitz study: A quarter of people are watching less TV because they’re consuming more short-form content on sites like YouTube. Most of it’s free, unlike cable. Hence: Snip, snip, snip.

There’s hardly a platform on which Americans won’t be able to see Hillary Clinton squaring off against Donald Trump in the three presidential debates. Twitter is now in the game via a deal with Bloomberg to live stream its coverage, and the form will be the same as its streaming of NFL games.

The CW appears to be refining its OTT streaming strategy for this new fall TV season by making its in-season streaming offers exclusive to its own CW-branded digital platforms. The move essentially removes CW programming from Hulu.

In the debut of an NFL plan to live stream Thursday Night Football on Twitter, the video feed had a slight delay. Fans’ complaints were posted on Twitter in real time.

Just hours before kickoff yesterday a partnership-within-a-partnership was announced that will give viewers still more options for watching Twitter coverage of NFL Thursday Night Football. The Twitter live stream will be available on SI.com and Time.com, in what Time is calling a “syndication partnership.” Future Thursday Night Football games will be on other Time Inc. properties: FanSided.com and TheMMQB.com. The sites will embed the live Twitter timeline alongside the video.

Twitter’s Jack Dorsey has a lot riding on his bet that live streaming events — especially the NFL’s Thursday Night Football, to which it won rights — will kickstart a necessary turnaround. The Wall Street Journal reports that ad packages for all 10 games run $1 million-$8 million with two commercials per game and additional sponsorship of clips, but some ad buyers are hesitant to commit. Twitter hopes that by bringing its app to TV screens via Apple TV, those anxieties will abate. WSJ subscribers can read the full story here.

The two companies team up to offer a new premium on-demand movie service that will tap a base of more than 50 million Hispanic consumers in the U.S.

Time Inc. will launch the People/Entertainment Weekly Network, an ad-supported, video streaming network, on Sept. 13. The move is a chance at diversification against continuing print declines as the video ad business continues to grow. The service will be free to users and available live or on demand, focusing on celebrities, human interest and entertainment stories and live events.

Univision is launching a newscast at noon ET, but it’s how the show is going to be delivered that’s the real news. Noticiero Univision Edición Digital (Noticero Univision Digital Edition) will broadcast on the Univision network, and it will also stream on Univision.com, Facebook Live, YouTube and Periscope.

Turner’s CEO John Martin says the company has begun to build out the necessary tech to stream its content over the internet. That means Turner will eventually compete with its own paying customers like Comcast and Charter, but it has become imperative to put Turner on a course to offer an end-to-end solution, direct to consumer.

Amazon.com is pursuing video rights to a wide range of sports, including the French Open tennis championship and professional rugby, as the company looks for ways to draw new customers to its online TV service, people with knowledge of the matter said.

The reason? They’re watching more content on streaming services, where the commercial load is lower than on traditional TV. So says a new study.

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Fox Sports Go has launched on the fourth generation Apple TV with a couple of new bells and whistles unseen in other iterations of the app. They include a 60-frames-per-second streaming rate and multiview display, which lets viewers watch up to four live streams on one screen at once.

The first would be $10 a month like its leading competitors and would stream as much as consumers want, anywhere they want it. The second service would go for $4-$5, but the catch is it would be streamable only on Amazon Echo devices.

Something amazing may be happening: Television broadcasters may start viewing their content the way the rest of us do — as something you watch, plain and simple, without caring what screen it’s on. And as something you want to see on your terms. Now. If so, it’s going to be a very big deal for an industry that still thinks it’s special.

2015 was a blockbuster year for OTT TV platform launches, and in looking at those large enough to make a splash, there are 35 new services vying for consumer attention. Finding a niche is the key to surviving the OTT baby boom.

The Wall Street Journal reports that NFL, Walt Disney and Comcast’s NBCUniversal are among television content owners that are resisting deals with Facebook for its video features, concerned about ceding control to the social-networking giant and undermining the value of their programming. Journal subscribers can read the full story here.

The new data for publishers includes viewer demographics (age, gender and location), at what points viewers are most engaged in videos and a heat map for 360-degree video that illustrates where viewers spend the most time watching.

Users are balking at NBC Sports’ app, which has been so buggy since a July 5 Rio Games reboot that it has required seven bug fixes, including random audio playing with video clips. Other complaints include the necessity of signing in with a cable provider to view content and a deluge of advertising, and more than 19,000 users have given the app a one-star rating in the App Store.

Hulu made it official on Monday: The streaming giant has ended its free, ad-supported service as it moves to adopt an all-subscription model.

Facebook has started running tests of mid-roll video ads inside live video broadcasts from top publishing partners, the company confirmed Monday. These are Facebook’s first ads that get served directly inside videos on the social network.

ABC News is in the midst of delivering 24-hour Facebook Live coverage of the political conventions, as part of a partnership with Facebook. Mădălina Ciobanu spoke with Dan Linden, global head of social media for ABC News, about the key takeaways from the past week and a half. Among them: break up coverage into shorter blocks and show people what they won’t find on traditional TV news.

Stranger Things, a 1983-set Spielberg homage, has won enormous word-of-mouth momentum for Netflix, and among its upcoming original programming is a return to Mystery Science Theater 3000 (not to mention a Gilmore Girls revisit and Fuller House). Oriana Schwindt looks at how much wind is in the sails of a nostalgia programming approach if subscriber growth is the ultimate endgame. “Banking on the pull of nostalgia just might not work for some of those potential subscribers over 35,” she writes.

Mondelēz International, the giant food manufacturer, wants to come up with a way to make watching the ads that accompany streaming-video as appetizing, say, as its Oreos or Triscuits. The company is teaming up with Fox Networks Group, the 21st Century Fox unit that runs FX, Fox Broadcasting and Fox Sports 1, to figure out how to make ads more appealing to viewers who have been taught not to sit still for traditional commercial breaks.