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EXCLUSIVE: Endemol Shine Group and top TV maker Vizio have reached a deal to bring four channels dedicated to Endemol unscripted programming to Vizio’s ad-supported smart-TV platform. Two of the 24-hour channels, streaming on Vizio’s SmartCast platform, center on individual shows: Deal or No Deal and Wipeout. The DIY…

A&E’s Live PD topped the rankings of TV shows watched both on DVR or on demand, and Friends, a sitcom that keeps finding new life 15 years after its finale aired on NBC, finished among the top 10 shows watched live. The numbers were reported Thursday by Vizio’s smart-TV data and analytics unit Inscape, which tracks…

EXCLUSIVE: A&E’s Live PD is finishing 2018 as the most-viewed show of the year on OTT platforms as well as via VOD and DVR, according to a survey of smart-TV data by Inscape. A subsidiary of smart-TV maker Vizio, Inscape surveys viewing across some nine million households, spanning all demographics and geographic…

Electronics manufacturer Vizio’s $2 billion sale to China’s LeEco Global Group just wasn’t to be. The companies ended months of questions about the deal they reached in July — after two years of negotiations —  by announcing today that they’ve called it off due to “regulatory headwinds.” In its place they unveiled an…

Pongalo, the Latino-focused digital content company formerly known as Latin Everywhere, continues to expand. The company, which owns rights to more than 10,000 hours of Spanish-language film and TV content including more telenovelas that any other digital service, is now putting its newly launched on-demand…