Dish Networks and DirectTV’s March 8 joint press release commending the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s release of a discussion draft of a bill to reauthorize the Satellite TV Extension and Localism Act (STELA), was the typical boiler plate variety — and not really the news.
Amazon March 7 announced it inked a content licensing agreement with BBC Worldwide North America making Prime Instant Video the exclusive SVOD service home for the first and future seasons of the drama series “Orphan Black.”
Starz is launching a consumer quiz and app — the latter letting fans of the premium channel’s original series “Da Vinci’s Demons” have their portrait drawn by Leonardo da Vinci. Users can upload a photo or connect to their Facebook account.