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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…

AVOD service Tubi said it will become accessible in 30,000 hotel room as of Tuesday through a deal with Enseo, a tech comany with an in-room entertainment platform. Tubi offerings include over 20,000 movies and television shows from over 250 content partners including most major Hollywood studios. It's available in…

Comcast is in talks to acquire Walmart's Vudu, the retail behemoth's advertising and transactional video-on-demand service, according to a person familiar with the situation. It’s the latest twist in the hot and getting hotter streaming wars, and comes as the media and entertainment giant, parent of NBCUniversal…

Tubi, which bills itself as the “world’s largest” ad-supported video on demand (AVOD) service, said it reached 25 million monthly active users as of December 2019. Total view time on the free platform by the end of last year reached 163 million hours, the company announced in a press release, an increase of 160% over…

EXCLUSIVE: Tubi has scored the exclusive streaming rights to Robert Rodriguez’s sci-fi horror pic Red 11 as well as his docuseries The Robert Rodriguez Film School. Red 11 is based on Rodriguez's experiences in a medical research facility to finance his first feature El Mariachi. Pic, which made its world premiere at…

Tubi, one of the leading U.S. players in ad-supported streaming, will expand its service into Mexico later this year through a deal with TV Azteca. The expansion comes as the startup also prepares to enter the UK market later this year. TV Azteca, one of the world’s two top producers of Spanish-language television…

Tubi TV, the ad-supported, on-demand video service, will launch in the UK in 2020 and is set to roll out a specific kids' library service. This comes after the service recenty rolled out in Australia as part of its first leg of planned global expansion. Ad-supported streaming, once a marginal sector, has gained…