Sinclair’s STIRR streaming service hits 1M downloads



STIRR – Sinclair’s free, ad-supported streaming service anchored its local broadcast television stations – has hit one million downloads since launching earlier this year.



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Nielsen moves its national TV measurement product to Amazon’s cloud



Nielsen is moving its core National Television Audience Measurement processing from traditional on-premise servers to Amazon Web Service’s cloud-based infrastructure.



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Video piracy will cost OTT and pay TV providers $12.5B in lost revenue by 2024 – study



Video piracy already eats into potential revenues for OTT services like Netflix and pay TV providers like Comcast, and the problem will likely get worse in the years ahead.



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Industry Voices—Sappington: A new generation of data and its impact on traditional players



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DirecTV Now could lose CBS stations as new carriage dispute looms for AT&T



CBS is warning viewers that AT&T’s pay TV services including DirecTV, DirecTV Now and U-verse could lose CBS broadcast networks soon if a new agreement isn’t reach.



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CBS, Viacom set early August deadline for remerger agreement – report



CBS and Viacom are reportedly setting August 8 as an informal deadline for reaching an agreement to recombine the two media companies.



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Hulu quietly brings back 4K video, but only for Apple TV and Chromecast Ultra



Hulu last week quietly brought back 4K streaming video – albeit in a limited capacity – after taking down options for Ultra HD viewing last year.



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Ooyala sells Flex media platform business to Dalet



Ooyala today announced a definitive agreement to sell its Flex media platform business to Dalet, a video product provider for broadcasters and media companies.



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Comcast taps facial recognition, interactive sports tech for latest startup program



Comcast NBCUniversal has 11 new media and entertainment startups, including facial recognition and interactive sports tech companies, picked for its second LIFT Labs Accelerator.



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Dish launches new AirTV Mini 4K streaming stick



Dish Network’s AirTV today rolled out the new AirTV Mini, a 4K HDR compatible streaming stick running Android TV, priced at $79.99.



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