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This is the kind of milestone we’ve been waiting for in digital’s evolution into a full fledged competitor to conventional TV. Yahoo will be the first to live stream an NFL game globally, across devices, and for free, on October 25. It will offer an NFL International Series game from London pitting the Buffalo Bills…

You don’t need a study to tell you that smartphones and tablets are becoming super-important video platforms. Still, it’s startling to see how quickly consumers are turning to them for news and entertainment, even in a study from a firm that has a stake in the medium’s growth. Mobile devices accounted for 30% of the…

Do you think that Big Media companies are about to blow up one of the greatest rackets in American business – one that accounts for the vast majority of their profits? The New York Times apparently does based on its geewhiz front page story this morning (in sync with a lot of trendy commentary this week) pegged to…

HGTV, Food Network, and Great American Country aren’t the first channels that come to mind when one thinks about programming for millennials. But following an agreement announced this morning, the Scripps Networks Interactive channels will be part of the package that Dish Network is assembling for its…

The service, which is expected to be called YaVeo, will be DirecTV’s answer to the general audience TV services that Sony, Verizon, and Dish Network plan to offer via the Internet.  “There's an ethnic opportunity and we're looking to launch an Hispanic product later this year,” DirecTV CEO Michael White said today at…

Add Starz CEO Chris Albrecht to the list of premium channel chiefs who are seriously thinking about using the Internet to offer his programming directly to consumers — including those who don’t buy the pay TV bundle. “It's not about a la carte,” he told the Goldman Sachs Communacopia investor confab in NYC. “It's…

CEO Lowell McAdam offered a few more details this morning about Verizon’s plan to offer a TV-like service over the Internet, a market that Sony and Dish Network also hope to lead. The telco expects by mid-2015 it will offer mobile users a “bundle with major broadcast providers” plus a collection of  “custom channels,&#8221…

“We're in an arms race,” Public Knowledge CEO Gene Kimmelman told the Senate Commerce Committee at a hearing to explore the prospects for broadband video. It’s “no surprise, content companies bulk up” as Fox wants to do with its $80B bid for Time Warner, which was rejected by the company but disclosed today. Following…

There’s encouraging and discouraging news for just about everybody in the TV ecosystem from Leichtman Research Group’s latest study of emerging video services. The survey of 1,211 households shows that nearly half (49%) have a Web-connected TV, up from 44% last year and 38% in 2012. And people are using the…

About 58% of adults who use the Internet watch comedy videos, up from 50% in 2009, the Pew Research Center found in a July survey of 1,003 adults. But I was surprised to see how popular serious fare has become on the Web. Some 56% said that they watch How-to videos followed by Educational (50%, up from 38% in 2009)…

It just might if it frightens them enough to accelerate their efforts to make people pay for broadband based on how much they use — the same way they pay for electricity or water. “This isn’t just a side show,” independent analyst Craig Moffett says. “This is THE central issue defining the value of the cable industry…

About 14% of all households have a streaming media device, twice the number that had one two years ago, research firm Parks Associates says today. But the most interesting finding in its new report on trends in connected TV is that relatively tiny Roku handily beats the mighty Apple among people who own a streaming…