Streaming Service Sensical Taps Nickelodeon Vet Sharon Kroll Cohen as Head of Marketing

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorAs the calendar flips over to 2022, DirecTV customers will again see their rates go up — in some cases, as much as 10% — continuing its pattern of annual price hikes. The pay-TV provider is again blaming the increases on higher programming costs.The price increases will apply to most DirecTV plans and go into effect starting Jan.

Two-year-old streaming service Topic has set a deal with tech firm Deepdub to make its catalog of foreign-language series and TV shows available in English.

Fox News. The longtime Fox News Sunday anchor announced his decision to leave the network during Sunday's program, calling his 18 years with Fox «a great ride.»«After 18 years — this is my final Fox News Sunday,”Wallace said. »It is the last time — and I say this with real sadness — we will meet like this."«It's been a great ride,» he continued.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorScener, the three-year-old co-viewing streaming video platform incubated by RealNetworks, is hoping to kick its business into higher gear with a new CEO and the backing of a slate of new investors and advisers, including filmmaker J.J. Abrams.The company announced the hiring of David Baron, a nearly 14-year veteran of Hulu, as its new CEO.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefBruce Willis-starring sci-fi action film “Breach” is to receive an online release next week in China across five major streaming platforms.Leeding Media, which has offices in Los Angeles and Beijing, has finally secured Dec.

Marcus Lim The rise of new OTT platforms in Southeast Asia has made content distribution and story development much more data driven, according to media executives at the Asian Television Forum in Singapore.Anna Burdin, of Chinese OTT platform iQiyi, described a content landscape vastly different from the previous years.“In the golden days of pay-TV, the pay-TV operator would sign a contract [with the telco], disappear for three years, and then come back for more money,” said Burdin.

The end of Droughtlander is very close and fans can't contain their excitement.

She may be the Queen of Christmas, but Mariah Carey is first and foremost the Queen of Shade!

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeThe Screen Actors Guild is making at least one major change to its awards as it prepares to return to a live, in-person event: A major venue switch.

Nobody is off limits to Mariah Carey‘s shade — not even her ex-husband, Nick Cannon. Mariah, 52, had her latest epic shade moment during an interview with Entertainment Tonight about her upcoming Christmas plans, when host Kevin Frazier broached the subject of Nick’s five children that he shares with three different women, in addition to his and Mariah’s 10-year-old twins, Monroe and Moroccan.

Kieran Hebden – aka Four Tet – has hit out at Domino Records for removing three of his albums from streaming services, allegedly because of the ongoing legal battle between the musician and the indie label.It emerged in August that Hebden had sued Domino over the digital royalties it is paying him on albums that stem from a 2001 record deal, and a record contract that didn’t specifically talk about streaming.

The recent animated movie Ron’s Gone Wrong will be available to stream on December 15 and it will actually be available on multiple streaming services!

Kieran Hebden – aka Four Tet – has hit out at Domino Records for removing three of his albums from streaming services, allegedly because of the ongoing legal battle between the musician and the indie label.It emerged in August that Hebden had sued Domino over the digital royalties it is paying him on albums that stem from a 2001 record deal, and a record contract that didn’t specifically talk about streaming.

Four Tet says that his former label Domino have removed three of his albums with them from streaming services.The producer and DJ, real name Kieran Hebden, signed with Domino in 2001 for the release of his second album, ‘Pause’.

EXCLUSIVE: Toto and His Sisters, a film by Oscar-nominated documentarian Alexander Nanau, has started streaming today for the first time in the U.S. on emerging service Documentary+.