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Netflix is in talks with several U.S. pay-television providers including Comcast and Suddenlink Communications to make its online video service available as an app on their set-top boxes, people familiar with the matter say. A deal would mark the online video service’s first such tie-up with a U.S. cable provider and would come after a Continue Reading →

Google TV is dead, long live Android TV: Three years after launching the first generation of Google TV devices, Google is now looking to rid itself of the brand and realign its smart TV platform efforts more closely with Android. The move is part admission that Google TV failed, part hope that Android will eventually Continue Reading →

Broadcasters plan to petition the U.S. Supreme Court to review lower court rulings that have allowed Aereo to continue offering unauthorized streams of digital signals in New York, according to sources familiar with the case. A decision has been made to file a petition, or writ of certoriari, by a deadline of Oct. 15. In Continue Reading →

Aereo announced on Thursday that it will be releasing an Android app on October 22. It’ll launch as a public beta in the Google Play store and will only be available to existing Aereo subscribers, where the controversial antenna and Internet-based television service is already available. Aereo is unique in that it uses a huge Continue Reading →

Twitter has been trying to buddy up with the TV industry for the past few years. Now it has its biggest payoff yet: A far-reaching deal with Comcast that aims to turn the social network into a TV-watching service. The gist: Later this fall, Twitter users will start to see a “See It” button on Continue Reading →

Nielsen has released its Twitter TV ratings, showing that there has been a 38 percent increase in tweets about TV in the US over the last year — from 190 million in Q2 2012 to 263 million in Q2 2013. The number of Twitter TV authors in the US has also risen 24 percent, from Continue Reading →

It has been a tumultuous twelve months at the BBC, with scandal after scandal finally leading to a new Director General in the form of Lord Tony Hall who took over at the helm in April, replacing George Entwistle who had held fort for just fifty days. And at a gathering at New Broadcasting House Continue Reading →

The BBC has launched a new music service called Playlister that will allow users to save lists of tracks they have heard across the BBC’s range of channels and export them to its digital music partners, which include Spotify, YouTube and Deezer, for full playback. The service was announced on Tuesday alongside the new BBC Continue Reading →

Unsurprisingly, TV broadcasters don’t like that Aereo is taking the content they provide freely over-the-air and putting it on the Internet for everyone to enjoy. The startup is currently embroiled in a number of court cases over its product, and now that legal battle enters a new arena with Fox Broadcasting Co., Sinclair Broadcast Group Continue Reading →

If you’re not an HBO subscriber and you don’t know someone who’s willing to give you their HBO Go login credentials, then you’re pretty much locked out of the pay cabler’s walled original content garden. But as of Monday, HBO’s granting access to seven of its most popular series via Google Play. Pricing for the Continue Reading →