VIZIO has announced that Fox Corporation’s FOX NOW and FOX Nation apps are available on VIZIO’s SmartCast platform. Now millions of viewers across the US have access to FOX’s local and national news, entertainment programming, and sports content directly on their VIZIO SmartCast TVs. “We are pleased that millions of VIZIO SmartCast users can now […]
Fox News is cancelling the long-running Lou Dobbs Tonight show forthwith, according to the LA Times. Dobbs was an early and avid Trumper and has carried on falsely claiming the 2020 election was rigged. Fox News now faces a $2.7 billion defamation suit from voting technology company Smartmatic. “As we said in October, Fox News […]
Smartmatic has filed a $2.7 billion defamation suit against Fox News owner Fox Corp, alleging Fox conducted a disinformation campaign against the election technology company. Smartmatic cited Fox news reports it said had repeated false claims that Smartmatic had “fixed and rigged” the 2020 election. “The Earth is round. Two plus two equals four. Joe […]
YouLook, a new AVoD service, is now live in a beta release to customers in the UK and Ireland. As part of the extended beta programme, which began December 31st 2020, the service will be available on iOS, Android and Amazon Firestick platforms in the next month. YouLook currently offers a range of classic movies, […]
Disney has announced the full slate of content that will be available at launch on Star – the sixth brand to launch on Disney+, joining the line-up that already includes Marvel, Pixar, Star Wars, National Geographic and Disney. Previously Disney had revealed just a handful of titles for Star, including original series Big Sky, but […]
James Murdoch has told the FT that US news channels promote “toxic politics” threatening US democracy. He said proprietors are as culpable as politicians who “know the truth but choose instead to propagate lies”. While he doesn’t name his father Rupert, who founded Fox News, or Lachlan, the brother who runs it, there is zero […]
James Murdoch is reuniting with Uday Shankar, who helped build Star, for a new media venture in India. The project brings back together one of India’s most successful media partnerships with the aim of building a “large-scale” business in the areas of digital media, education and healthcare delivery. Murdoch told the Financial Times it would […]
FOX News Digital closed out November 2020 with a record month in multiplatform views (over 2.7 billion) and multiplatform minutes (over 5 billion), its highest month in history across both categories. The digital network hit a new milestone surpassing over 5 billion multiplatform minutes for the first time ever and continued its streak of now […]
FOX News International, FOX News Media’s international streaming service, will be made available in Chile, Panama and Portugal starting December 17th. The launch further expands the platform’s distribution to 30 countries worldwide, surpassing FOX News Media’s original goal of reaching 20 countries by year end. The service provides live streams of FOX News Channel (FNC) […]
Amagi, a global leader in cloud-based SaaS technology for broadcast and streaming TV, has expanded its operations into France, DACH and NL markets, further strengthening its operations in Europe. The company, in the previous quarter, registered a YoY quarterly growth of 120 per cent, and today supports more than 400 channels on its platform for […]