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Local Now, the leading U.S. free streaming service for local news, weather, sports, traffic and entertainment, is adding the TIME FAST channel to the Local Now platform. The company announced the addition of USA TODAY and USA TODAY Sports channels in October.
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Nearly a year after launch, ITV has hailed the success of its streaming service ITVX, with 216 programmes that have been watched by 1+ million viewers so far. Plans for 2024 include regionalised news, news pop-up channels and pause advertising.
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Bloomberg TV+ and Bloomberg Originals are now available as FAST channels on Amazon Freevee in the U.S., UK and Germany.
Bloomberg TV+ was already on Prime Video in Canada, Mexico, Australia and Brazil, offering its global business news and analysis.
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The sports-first live TV streaming platform FuboTV has launched 10 fully branded ‘FAST’ channel radio stations in the U.S. as part of its strategy to diversify the entertainment line-up, “and redefine what it means to be a cable TV replacement for the entire family.”
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ZEE5 Global has set its sights on being a streaming aggregator for third-party South Asian streaming services in the U.S., and then extending this role to the world. It has introduced ‘Add-ons’ from multiple third-party services, with single log-in and unified billing.
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DTG has released a guide to FAST TV that highlights opportunities for standards to support FAST distribution. Noting the potential role of DVB-I, it also flags the opportunity to develop a metadata specification to support FAST library content search and discovery.
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HbbTV OpApp now has improved support for rendering IP-delivered linear channels, including enabling regular HbbTV interactive (Red Button) applications to appear alongside IP-delivered linear channels and operator-managed user interface elements.
VIDAA brings Utomik’s cloud games to its Smart TV platform
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Users of Smart TV brands that use the VIDAA OS, including Hisense and Toshiba, will be able to play cloud-based games from the Utomik platform directly on the television set. Games become more accessible, and the move diversifies the VIDAA entertainment collection.
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