XITE, the music video network, has announced an extension of its content on Amazon Fire TV as the music video provider for Amazon’s Fire TV Channels app. The offering will include XITE’s twenty-one music video channels currently available on Freevee, bringing an even more immersive and dynamic music experience to viewers in the US. In 2019, […]

Xumo and Comcast Advertising have released a joint report, The 2023 State of FAST, exploring the growing usage of free ad-supported streamingtelevision (FAST) among advertisers and consumers, and the role it is playing in multiscreen TV advertising plans today. The report combines data insights from across Comcast Advertising and Xumo Play alongside custom research with […]

Samsung TV Plus and ZDF Studios are expanding their existing partnership and will build 20 European FAST Channels together in the future. The start is made by the launch of two new channels in Germany. The two new channels, available now on Samsung TV Plus, are Bares für Rares (Cash or Trash) and ZDF kocht! […]

A+E Networks has named Mark Garner to the newly created position of Executive Vice President, Head of Global FAST Channels, effective immediately. The announcement was made by Steven MacDonald, President, Global Licensing & International, to whom he reports. “As FAST continues to be a critical area for growth around the world, we are thrilled to […]

Zee Entertainment, in partnership with Global Distribution Services and Synapse TV, has launched its FAST channels Zee World, Zest, Zing and Zee Punjabi on Freeview channel 278, becoming the largest Asian TV network in the UK. The channels offer an array of content, ranging from lifestyle and entertainment to drama and regional programming. With ZEE […]

Great American Media and Sony Pictures Television’s Pure Flix have completed the previously announced merger to combine the two companies. The successful merger joins Great American Media’s family-friendly linear and FAST channels with the Pure Flix faith and family SVoD service into a consolidated entity. Great American Media retains a majority interest in the merged […]

Digital content agency and media network, Little Dot Studios – an All3Media Company – has launched its eighth FAST channel, dedicated to interviewing the stars. The Chat Show Channel  (The Talk Show Channel in the US), features more than 2,000 film, music, comedy and sport stars and is available in seven territories initially including the […]

Amazon Freevee has agreed a deal with MGM and Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) to add 23 FAST channels to its portfolio. MGM is to launch 12 FAST channels on Freevee, whilst the other 11 will feature WBD content. The new channels joins Freevee’s slate of over 280 FAST channels which can be accessed through the […]

FilmRise, the New York-based film and television studio and streaming network, has announced it now has 384 FAST Channels on streaming platforms both domestically and internationally including 18 new channels that launched in the past month across Google TV, LG, Rakuten, Plex and Vizio. Danny Fisher, CEO of FilmRise, commented: “We have been forecasting for […]