truTV gave the green light to a second season of summer comedy I’m Sorry, starring Andrea Savage, to premiere in 2018. The series has grown its audience by 32% since premiere week, delivering an average 454,000 total viewers and 306,000 among A18-49 in Live+3.
YouTube TV, Google’s OTT-based TV service, is now available in 14 new U.S. markets, including, Baltimore, Las Vegas, and Boston. With the expansion, YouTube says the service is now available in about 50% of U.S. homes. In other news, the service is adding two new channels to its lineup: Newsy, the digital news service from […]
Reddit is finally adding video support. The discussion site has rolled out a new feature that lets users directly upload clips to its website and mobile apps. Reddit had been testing the video upload feature in the weeks before its wider launch, letting about 200 communities make use of it. Redditors can now upload videos […]
Turner Sports is cranking up its plans for sports, announcing not only a deal with UEFA for a three-year multi-platform rights agreement for exclusive rights to the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League beginning with the 2018-19 season, but also an upcoming new standalone premium sports streaming video service with the collection of UEFA […]
For the first time, NASCAR will live-stream an in-car camera on Twitter for all 10 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs races in 2017. Streaming begins with the first race of the NASCAR Playoffs at Chicagoland Speedway on Sept. 17 while fans can watch the full broadcast of the race at Chicagoland on NBCSN. In […]
An upcoming installment of HBO’s Game of Thrones was leaked, but hackers aren’t to blame. Season 7’s episode 6 was mistakenly posted (!) on HBO Nordic and HBO Espana platforms, and the brief period it was available was enough time for it to spread on piracy sites. “The error appears to have originated with a […]
Senator Al Franken, who canceled a June appearance on HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher after Maher used a racial slur, is giving Maher (who has expressed his regret at the offensive blurt) another chance. Franken will appear on tomorrow’s show, at 10p.
Apple has been publicly mum on its plan to dive into TV-quality original content, but that hasn’t stopped the press from reporting on it. Sources now tell the Wall Street Journal that the tech giant plans to acquire as many as 10 new series – and will spend about $1 billion in the process. (That […]
Roku is getting a lot less friendly toward private channels. In theory, Roku’s private channel feature has always been geared toward developers who wanted to test their products. But in practice, it’s also been a gateway to posting pirated content. And sometime this week, the company started displaying warning messages to users who install private […]
The PGA TOUR landed a new title sponsor for the winners-only Tournament of Champions, inking mutual insurance company Sentry to a five-year deal agreement. The event will now be known as the Sentry Tournament of Champions and serve as the first tournament in January 2018 when the 2017-18 PGA TOUR schedule resumes following the holiday […]