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Apple’s TV hobby just a bit bigger: Apple has added 5 new content providers to its sort-of settop box, notably Time Warner’s HBO Go and Disney’s WatchESPN. Also available as of today: Satellite TV service Sky News; anime subscription service Crunchyroll

Now that Disney owns Star Wars and a major TV network I think they might want to look into reboot the ABC sitcom, Who’s the Boss, with a Star Wars twist. Thanks to artist, Zach T. Jordan, they don’t even need to think of a title or the characters. Can yo

Viacom is the latest media company that wants to mine promotional, video-based tweets from its TV nets into silver nuggets. Media conglom announced a partnership with Twitter to sell advertising for video clips culled from popular shows and tentpole even

Two of the most popular on-demand streaming apps will be funneled directly to Apple's set-top box, but you need a pay-TV subscription for most content (Credit: Donald Bell/CNET) Apple TV is getting live sports and Game of Thrones beamed straight to its b

But it's a little different than some of the other situations I've been associated with before. We always bump that up against the distribution. And so instead of going in some linear format, if you will, we tend to bump that up against the distribution.