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Amazon announces Viacom streaming deal

Robert Briel — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:50:35 +0000

Amazon has announced a licensing agreement with Viacom that will allow Amazon Prime members to instantly stream TV shows from MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, TV Land, Spike, VH1, BET, CMT and Logo. Read the story »

PS Network becomes Sony Entertainment Network

Robert Briel — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:05:00 +0000

Sony is changing the name of its PlayStation Network to Sony Entertainment Network (SEN) starting February 8. Read the story »

VideoWeb brings Zattoo to the big screen

Robert Briel — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:54:32 +0000

German based connected TV firm VideoWeb has announced a new application which brings the Zattoo live videostreams to a regular TV set. Read the story »

IGN launches gamer channel on YouTube

Robert Briel — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:13:42 +0000

Start, the YouTube video games channel from IGN Entertainment and Shine Group, has launched with a mix of live and long-form programming. Read the story »

Reuters TV channel launches on YouTube

Robert Briel — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:16:45 +0000

Reuters has announced the launch of Reuters TV, a new YouTube channel featuring ten news, commentary and analysis programmes covering hard news, finance, politics, technology and special Reuters investigations. Read the story »

YouTube continues to dominate US online video

Robert Briel — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:08:25 +0000

182 million US internet users watched online video content in December for an average of 23.2 hours per viewer, according to comScore. The total US internet audience viewed 43.5 billion videos. Read the story »

Arte launches live streaming

Robert Briel — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:19:33 +0000

The Franco-German cultural channel Arte has launched a live streaming service for internet users in France and Germany. Read the story »

Hulu Plus reports 1.5 million paying subs

Robert Briel — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:44:24 +0000

Hulu Plus, the online video subscription service owned by ABC, Fox and NBC, had 1.5 million paying subscribers at the end of 2011. Read the story »

Report: Microsoft gives up on subscription TV

Robert Briel — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:18:11 +0000

Microsoft Corp has put its talks with media companies about an online subscription service for TV shows and movies on hold, according to a report from Reuters. Read the story »

Record numbers for Dutch catch-up TV

Robert Briel — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 11:08:38 +0000

A record number of 206.8 million streams were requested for Uitzending Gemist, the catch-up service of the Dutch public broadcasters, in 2011. Read the story »