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ESPN mulls OTT service for Major League Soccer
US sports network ESPN is mulling a plan to provide access to US Major League…
Majority of US UltraViolet users now access content on TVs
More than half of the 16 million users of UltraViolet in the US now view…
OTT competition heats up as HBO shows land on Amazon
The first wave of HBO programming has landed on Amazon’s Prime Instant Video service in…
AMC ups Mandelup to VP of corporate communications
AMC has promoted Sundance media relations executive Elana Mandelup to vice president of corporate communications,…
Samsung reportedly buys video discovery firm Shelby.tv
Samsung has reportedly bought New York-based social video discovery firm Shelby.tv. According to a GigaOM…
Nielsen adds demographics to Twitter
Nielsen has launched a new service measuring Twitter TV demographics across 250 US channels. The…
US multichannel video providers have best quarter in two years
The US multichannel video industry had its “best quarter in two years” with cable providers…
Smart TVs to be in 35% of US homes by end of the year
Roughly 42 million US households will have a smart TV by the end of 2014,…
AT&T agrees US$48.5 billion buyout of DirecTV
US telco AT&T has agreed to buy satellite pay TV operator DirecTV for a total…
Connected TVs now in 42 million US homes
In the first quarter of the year, some 42 million homes in the US had…