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It’s the second time a Facebook-fueled publishing startup has sold this year.
The deal would have valued the fantasy sports site at $900 million. Instead, it’s going to raise money elsewhere.
$12 a month via Apple, Roku and Sony. $9 a month via Hulu -- if you’re also paying for an $8 Hulu subscription.
BuzzFeed’s main brains say the site still gets lots of traffic from cats -- and dresses -- but is increasingly doing high-impact journalism on multiple platforms.
He’ll be COO at Amazon Studios, which also hired Hollywood distribution veteran Bob Berney.
He gave his notice last week. Today ESPN announced it was splitting up with Grantland founder Bill Simmons.
Even as everything else moves to DVR, on-demand and online viewing, sports refuses to be time-shifted.
ESPN filed a lawsuit in New York this morning against Verizon for breach of contract.
But it might be trying to get it anyway.
Verizon’s plan is “not ... authorized,” says ESPN PR.
A skinny bundle + groups of channels you can swap out every month. Interesting - and a sign that the TV guys are more worried than ever.
It’s back!
ABC achieved a number of digital milestones over a decade-long tenure.
And a new reveal about one of Cyanogen’s investors.
But that doesn’t mean NBCU won’t be in the service, if it ever launches.
Finally, a real-world test for a long-standing question.
Dish says its new Web-TV service isn’t about taking away from traditional pay-TV players, but it’s being marketed that way.
Nielsen says Twitter’s Oscar numbers dropped last night -- but TV’s dropped more.
The $20-a-month service comes out of beta, gets more interesting.
Small sport (in the U.S.). Big move.
But ESPN still plans on selling basketball games online. And probably cricket, too.
The beginning of the end of the bundle? Dish’s new Sling TV service brings cable’s most valuable channel -- and a few more -- to the Web for the first time.
What is this? A trailer for ants? It has to be at least ... three times bigger than this!
You’ve seen the trailer. Now see it in Legos, thanks to one dedicated fan.
The cable giant wants to sell sports to people who don’t have cable. It wants to start in February, with one of the world’s biggest events.
What’s next for the Wii U, and why are there mobile Pokemon games but no mobile Mario Kart?
The deal isn’t a surprise, but the price tag is.
A worrisome theory from Wall Street: The TV networks have helped lower their own ratings by selling their shows to Reed Hastings’ streaming service.
“Hatred and all kinds of prejudice is nothing we as a collective industry support.”
YouTube channel Mondo Media is going to port its shows to Fusion’s cable TV network. Expect to see more of this.
Digital Video and The Great Unbundling are exciting, but this fight’s about Old TV.
Simply saying harassment is bad is not enough.
Hint: It’s old, and it rhymes with “cable TV.”
For $6 a month, you get almost all of the network’s shows, live and on-demand. No cable subscription required. And unlike HBO, you can get it today.
The company will go “beyond the wall” and launch a “stand-alone, over the top” version of HBO in the U.S. next year.
Some TV ratings have been wrong since March. But TV’s real problem is much bigger than that.
It’s one of several video sites that have gone on the market this year.
And it’s willing to pay for them -- just like Amazon and Netflix.