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The new distribution will provide NWSL fans viewing across linear and streaming each weekend. The four-year partnerships total a 40x multiple from NWSL’s previous deal.

Tubi, Fox’s free, ad-supported video-on-demand service, has appointed former Amazon executive Sameer Balgi as its chief financial officer. Balgi was previously the chief financial officer of Freevee, Amazon’s FAST service and also head of finance for Prime Video’s U.S. Marketplace business. He took on the new position at Tubi on Nov. 6.

The Egyptian Theatre, a historic movie house that hosted Hollywood’s first film premiere a century ago, will re-open to the public this week after a multi-million-dollar restoration by Netflix. The company that pioneered watching movies at home stepped in three years ago to refurbish one of the most famous theaters in Los Angeles. Built during the silent film era, the Egyptian rolled out Hollywood’s first red carpet for the premiere of Robin Hood starring Douglas Fairbanks in 1922.

A handful of streaming channels dominate a significant amount of viewing, according to Omdia research.

CBS Sports has reached a multiyear rights agreement with the second-tier United Soccer League to air 100 matches each season across CBS’s linear and digital properties.

The Super Bowl isn’t the only big football property that will be crammed full of advertising. Amazon’s Prime Video has sold out all the commercial inventory attached to its new “Black Friday” game, the first event the NFL has earmarked for the day after Thanksgiving and the start of the holiday-shopping season, according to Danielle Carney, head of NFL ad-sales for the company. Amazon has also sold out of ad inventory in the Thursday Night Football games slated for Nov. 16 and 30, she says, in part because the company has tried to sell broader ad packages that connect an ad message across a broader swath of content.

Friends was the No. 1 most popular show on U.S. streaming services in the past week, according to new data — coming after news of series star Matthew Perry‘s death. For the week of Oct. 30-Nov. 5, Friends  (which is available on Warner Bros. Discovery’s Max) was the top-ranked TV show among American viewers, according to data compiled by streaming guide JustWatch.

Vizio said it has reached agreements with BBC Studios, Magnolia Pictures and Paramount Global Content Distribution that help double the amount of TV and movie content available on its WatchFree Plus streaming service. Vizio WatchFree Plus now has more than 275 streaming channels and 15,000 on-demand movies and TV episodes.

Scott Koondel thinks that the model he’s using to sell Judy Justice – Judge Judy Sheindlin’s next chapter, which streams on Amazon’s Freevee – is one he can apply to many other shows in syndication. “I have a lot of shows that are for streaming and eventually for syndication,” said Koondel, who worked in distribution for CBS from 1997 to 2018, the last six as EVP and chief corporate content licensing officer. He started at Paramount in 1994. “I see a world where I could provide syndicated shows for TV stations and not have to deficit finance.”

Netflix has laid off a handful of executives in its drama and overall deals divisions including Alex Sapot and Pete Corona. Sapot has been with the company for over seven years and was director, original series. Corona was director of drama series and was with the company for over five years.

Starz, the premium network and streaming service that will soon be its own publicly traded company, is laying off more than 10% of employees and is exiting Australia and the U.K. Starz CEO Jeffrey Hirsch announced the news in an email to staff obtained by CNBC on Friday. Starz has about 670 employees. He also addressed staff in a companywide town hall.

Peacock continues to expand its Bravo streaming offerings. NBCUniversal’s streaming platform will be the official home to uncensored versions of future reunion episodes for all the cable network’s reality programming, Bravo host and executive producer Andy Cohen revealed Friday during the “Ask Andy” panel at BravoCon in Las Vegas.

Fubo said it cut its net losses while added 310,000 subscribers in North America, giving a record number of customers. The net loss for the virtual multichannel video programming distributor was $83.8 million, 29 cents a share, compared to $162.6 million or 82 cents a share, a year ago. Revenues rose 43% to  $420.9 million

CBS News has detailed its plans for Election Day coverage. With the title America Decides: Campaign ’23, coverage goes 8-9:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 7, on CBS News Streaming Network, the CBS News app, CBSNews.com and Paramount+.

Futurama, which Hulu revived (for the second time in the show’s life) earlier this year, will extend its run on the streamer. Hulu has ordered two more seasons — 20 episodes’ worth — of the animated series from creators Matt Groening and David X. Cohen. Hulu’s initial pickup of Futurama in 2022 was also for two seasons and 20 episodes, so the new order will take the show through season 14. Season 12 is set to premiere in 2024.

The long-awaited final installment of Yellowstone — featuring Kevin Costner ‘s final episodes — has been delayed until November 2024, the Paramount Network announced Thursday. Originally scheduled to return this month, Paramount says production was delayed by this year’s strikes by actors and screenwriters. The first half of the fifth season debuted in November 2022.

One day after the Disney and Comcast co-owned streamer went on the market, Disney is buying the remaining 33% stake in Hulu for $8.61 billion. While there will be some hoops for Disney to jump through to complete the purchase, the company is predicting the deal will be completed “during the 2024 calendar year.”

After one year of operation, Netflix’s ad-supported option will offer new advertising and measurement innovations. In 2024, Netflix will offer global advertisers new measurement data for “campaign verification” via third-party providers. It did not provide further details about this. During the past 12 months, Netflix has rolled out global third-party verification from Integral Ad Science and DoubleVerify, as well as measurement/business outcome data from EDO Inc. Netflix also launched Nielsen One measurement in the U.S.

Paramount Global said it was taking EyeQ, its digital video advertising platform, global. The move will make it easier for multinational marketers to run campaigns across the company’s footprint, which has been boosted by the international expansion of Pluto TV and the launch of the ad-supported version of Paramount+ in Australia, Canada and other markets in 2024.

In the year since advertising began running on Netflix, the company said it has reached 15 million monthly active users on its ad-supported subscription tier. That’s up from the 5 million MAUs announced last May and follows the company’s assertion in last month’s earnings report that the Basic With Ads tier grew 70% in the third quarter. The MAU metric, while common in the streaming ad sector, is not the same as paid subscribers. Netflix has not yet broken out how many of its 247 million global subscribers are on the entry-level ad tier, which launched in 12 countries before expanding globally.

The plan for a Judy Justice foray into broadcast syndication is coming into focus. According to sources, the Amazon Freevee court show, created by and starring Judy Sheindlin, is being taken out to stations by Scott Koondel’s Sox Entertainment, targeting a fall 2024 launch. As Deadline noted in May, when rumors about a potential Judy Justice syndication play first surfaced, the move would make the first original court show on streaming also the first streaming show to sell into broadcast syndication.

Lester Holt may be turning up more frequently in David Muir‘s rear-view mirror. During Muir’s tenure at World News Tonight, the ABC broadcast has done something most TV programs cannot do in the streaming era: Add new linear viewers. Yet in recent weeks one of the evening-news program’s competitors has nibbled at its lead in a crucial category of viewer.