MSNBC on Monday launched a new online service featuring Web-only fare. The channel, christened "Shift," combines live news and short documentaries with original shows that focus on sports, economics, politics and other topics. One-hour programs include the Washington-oriented "The Briefing" with Luke Russert, "Krystal Clear," with Krystal...
Hulu has partnered up with Discovery Communications to offer select shows from the network starting on New Year’s Day in 2015, reports Reuters. Hulu subscribers will soon be able to watch shows like MythBusters, The Little Couple, Treehouse Masters, and How It’s Made. And for the...
Yesterday morning many Americans woke up and turned on the news, only to find a hostage situation playing out on the opposite side of the globe in Sydney, Australia. Yesterday evening, we learned of a gunman on the loose in Pennsylvania. And today, terrorism in...
Could Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network be the next programming services to go dark on Dish Network? The contract for cable’s leading news network and its flanking business channel with Dish are set to expire at 11:59 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 20. Fox News Channel...
Sony is in the first phase of its beta test for its "Playstation Vue" cloud-based TV service, which is due to launch commercially in 2015. In mid-November, Sony announced that it would be launching an experimental cloud-based TV service next year for Playstation 3 and Playstation...
Roku is the latest streaming service playing fill-in-the-blanks with its video content. An FCC filing reveals that the company has finally secured a deal with Comcast to allow subscribers of the world’s largest cable company access to HBO Go and Showtime on Roku’s devices. The document...
Netflix Inc. had a roaring 2013, featuring a jump of about 300% in its share price — not to mention a surge of 33% in its subscriber base, from an already impressive 33.3 million streaming members around the world to 44.3 million. But 2014 has been...
While Academy Awards handicappers are preoccupied with the movie categories at The 72nd Annual Golden Globe Awards, the most intriguing faceoff is occurring over on the television side: Netflix vs. Amazon. The two streaming services are going head to head for the first time in...
LIVEhouse.in, a real-time video platform based in Taipei, Taiwan, has raised $350,000 in seed funding from Cherubic Ventures. The company will use the capital to expand its team. Users can set up channels on LIVEhouse.in, which include chatrooms in addition to a live video feed. LIVEhouse.in...
Some shareholders of Netflix (NFLX) may wonder if the company’s management team thinks investors are not sophisticated enough to realize that more subscribers does not necessarily mean more money. A smaller number probably wonder if it is Netflix’s own management team that is not so...