Todd Spangler

AdRise , a content distribution and advertising startup, is launching Tubi TV , a free, ad-supported video-on-demand service stocked with 20,000 licensed TV shows and movies. The company is positioning...

Episodes of A&E;'s "Storage Wars" and "Bates Motel" (pictured, above) and History's "Vikings" and "Swamp People" are now available to watch live online and mobile devices -- for most pay...

Amazon .com is now streaming Syfy 's " Defiance " season one exclusively on Prime Instant Video, ahead of the second season's TV debut on June 19, continuing the Internet...

Hulu renewed its licensing agreement with The Criterion Collection , which will continue to make the distributor's 800-plus arthouse films available for streaming exclusively on the Hulu Plus subscription service....

The eye-popping claim certainly got some headline play: Comcast raised basic-cable rates 68% from 2009-13, while Time Warner Cable -- the target of Comcast's proposed $45 billion acquisition -- actually...

AOL .com has launched a video module smack in the middle of the page, featuring original content from partners including WWE and HSN , as the web portal seeks to...

Yahoo is considering a series order for " 34 and Pregnant ," a comedy from Lesley Arfin , a former writer on HBO's "Girls" and MTV's "Awkward." The show is...

Drones are the new black in the tech industry: Google has acquired Titan Aereospace, a startup whose high-altitude, solar-powered drones can provide fast Internet access to users on the ground,...

Netflix 's supernatural thriller " Hemlock Grove " was not its most buzzed-out original series, but audience reception evidently was strong enough that the show is coming back to the...

Maker Studios is in the center of a bidding war: Ryan Kavanaugh's Relativity Media has staged a surprise late-hour plan to acquire the YouTube multichannel network operator for up to...