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Fox Corp. streaming service Tubi is expanding its animation offerings via a licensing agreement with Japan’s Toei Animation. The pact, spanning seven TV series, 500 episodes and six specials, will bring six installments of the globally popular anime franchise One Piece to Tubi’s free, ad-supported platform. All…

Fox Corp. streaming service Tubi is expanding the live news offering it debuted last fall, adding nearly 80 stations owned by Cox, Hearst, Scripps and Tegna. The 24-hour live feeds will join those of 17 Fox-owned stations and Altice USA’s News 12 New York in a section of the streaming app called News on Tubi. National…

Lazarus, an action thriller set up at Samuel Goldwyn Films, will have an exclusive run on Fox Corp. streaming service Tubi starting February 26. The free, ad-supported outlet will be the first venue for the film in the U.S. and Canada. R.L. Scott, whose previous films include Call Me King, wrote and directed Lazarus…

Tubi has begun a content relationship with Chinese film and television studio Wanda Pictures, with two titles coming to the Fox-owned free streaming outlet. Original and exclusive English-dubbed versions of Detective Chinatown 2, which is No. 6 on China’s all-time box office chart, will be on Tubi soon in the U.S. and…

Tubi, the ad-supported streaming service owned by Fox Corp., has branched out from its on-demand roots to implement a new offering called “News on Tubi.” The news hub features live offerings from Fox’s owned stations in New York, LA and 15 other markets, as well as national services like NBC News Now, CBC, Cheddar…

Tubi reached 33 million monthly active users in August, up 65% over the same period in 2019 and a new high-water mark for the Fox Corp. streaming service. The company also announced the launch of Tubi en Español, a Spanish-language offering within the Tubi app, on Roku devices in the U.S. Metro by T-Mobile is the…

Fox Entertainment’s AVOD service Tubi has named Carolyn Forrest as Senior Vice President, General Counsel, reporting to Tubi CEO Farhad Massoudi and based in San Francisco. Forrest, most recently Vice President, Legal Affairs, for Fox Television Stations, will serve as the service’s chief legal officer, overseeing its…

Fox Corp.’s Tubi is widening the streaming audience for The Joy of Painting, the hushed classic hosted by the late Bob Ross. Thirty of 31 seasons, totaling almost 400 episodes, will be on Tubi by the end of the month. The first season of the show, which launched in 1983, is not part of the launch. Cinedigm’s Docurama…

Tubi, the ad-supported streaming service acquired this year by Fox, unveiled a slew of new library titles, a dedicated Spanish-language destination Tubi en Español, and new advertising solutions in a NewFronts presentation. New programming includes the entire first season of Fox’s LEGO Masters; titles based on Mattel…

Fox-owned, ad-supported VOD service Tubi said it’s partnered with an interactive platform used in hospitals ,called pCare, to offer is more than 20,000 movies and TV shows to patients at the Temple University Health System’s flagship location in North Philadelphia. The partnership with Tubi lets Temple provide…

Fox Corp said Monday that it has completed the acquisition of Tubi, announced March 17 for $440 million. The news comes the same day Comcast’s NBCUniversal announced the acquisition of streaming platform Vudu from Walmart by its Fandango movie ticketing division. Fox Corp. paid for Tubi with cash it raised from the…

Fox Corp. jumped into the direct-to-consumer arena, announcing an anticipated deal to acquire Tubi – a leader in the fast-growing free ad-supported streaming category – for about $440 million in net cash consideration. Fox said the deal  underscores its “long-term strategic initiatives to broaden and enhance…