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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 →

Only 98,600 people wrote messages on Twitter about the two-hour season premiere of “Grey’s Anatomy” last month. That’s a tiny fraction of the 9.3 million who, according to Nielsen, watched the show that night. But the posts, 225,000 of them in total, were seen by millions of Twitter users, some of whom might have fired Continue Reading →

The popular video-on-demand service Hulu Plus is now compatible with Chromecast. The service, which offers up programming from a number of major networks for a small monthly fee, pledged to officially support Chromecast back in July, but is only now making good on that promise. Hulu is rolling out the new feature through an update Continue Reading →

The idea of a la carte cable programming that would allow subscribers to pick and choose the stations they pay for is one that we have all dreamt of for years now. Some pay TV executives tease us from time to time and talk about how a la carte options might become available at some Continue Reading →