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YouTube has announced its first-ever music awards show — the fittingly-named YouTube Music Awards, taking place in November — which it says will be a fan-powered celebration of music and artists from the popular video site. The ceremony itself will take place in New York on Sunday November 3, with actor Jason Schwartzman the host. Continue Reading →

Clear Channel Media and Entertainment has announced a deal with Turner Broadcasting to offer select audio content including news from CNN, entertainment clips from TBS’s Conan and sports programming from Bleacher Report, in its new iHeartRadio Talk feature. iHeartRadio Talk will offer users both broad access to Turner programming and content including monologue clips from Continue Reading →

Nickelodeon is getting into the radio business. The children’s entertainment network has joined forces with Clear Channel Media and Entertainment to create its own station on Clear Channel’s online iHeartRadio. Nick Radio launched Monday with “The Way” singer Ariana Grande — also star of Nick’s “Sam & Cat” — as featured guest DJ, along with Continue Reading →

Cloud-based TV service Aereo has delayed its rollout in Chicago, which would have been its next biggest market after its hometown of New York, the company announced Friday. Aereo was testing its service in the Chicago area when it “encountered issues” with its testing site earlier this month, according to a blog post from the Continue Reading →

Hulu at some point expects to introduce a subscription video plan without any advertising — and compete more aggressively with Netflix. But today, the Internet TV service doesn’t want to leave money on the table. Hulu generates $7.99 monthly per subscriber for the pay service and brings in about that much — in the “mid Continue Reading →

As 4K TVs slowly make their way into the living room, streaming services like Netflix are gearing up to provide higher resolution streams to match the new format. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings spoke about the possibilities and the challenges of providing Ultra HD streams at the Copenhagen Future of TV Conference. The highest quality video Continue Reading →

YouTube will soon let you watch your favorite videos and channels whenever you want, even if you’re not connected to the internet. Available in the YouTube mobile app starting this November, you can designate certain videos or playlists that you want to store on your phone by tapping “add to device” next to what you Continue Reading →

Amazon has been spending a lot of time and money trying to catch up to Netflix in the subscription-video race. So far, not much luck: Many more people seem to be watching video via Reed Hastings’s service. But now Jeff Bezos has something new: Offline viewing. Amazon’s new line of Kindle Fire HDX tablets will Continue Reading →

Target Ticket, the US retailer’s video-on-demand offering, has launched to the public on Wednesday. After months of beta testing, Target Ticket is now live with a catalog of over 30,000 movies and more than 50 episodes of “next-day TV.” There’s no signup fee or monthly subscription for Target’s instant video service; like iTunes and Amazon Continue Reading →

Roku, makers of the streaming TV, film, music and gaming boxes, launched a new family of Roku devices on Wednesday and is bringing its top-of-the-line Roku 3 unit which has been available in the US since earlier in the year to the UK and Ireland. The devices announced on Wednesday include an updated Roku LT Continue Reading →