Neowin News Feed for: Fox

Judge blocks the launch of the upcoming Venu Disney-Fox-Warner Bros sports streaming service

John Callaham — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 05:10:01 +0000

A US judge blocked the upcoming launch of Venu, the sports streaming service from Disney, Fox, and Warner Bros Discovery. Rival FuboTV previously filed a lawsuit claiming Venu was anti-competitive. Read more...

FuboTV sues Disney, Fox, and Warner Bros. over their upcoming sports steaming service

John Callaham — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 22:12:01 +0000

The online TV service FuboTV has filed a lawsuit against Disney, Fox, and Warner Bros Discovery, claiming its upcoming joint sports streaming service will cause "extreme suppression of competition." Read more...

Rivals ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros are teaming up to launch a new sports streaming service

John Callaham — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 22:16:01 +0000

Media competitors ESPN, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery are laying down their differences to launch a new joint sports-themed streaming service which is scheduled to go live this fall. Read more...

Movies Anywhere is ditching its Screen Pass and Watch Together features June 1

John Callaham — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 13:26:01 +0000

Both the Screen Pass and Watch Together features, which offered different ways that Watch Anywhere users could share movies with their friends, will be officially shut down on June 1. Read more...

Fox News to roll out streaming service on November 27, starting at $5.99 a month

Ruel Revales — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 21:22:01 +0000

Fox News announced today its plan to launch an on-demand subscription-based streaming service next month. Called Fox Nation, the service will cost $5.99 a month or $64.99 per year. Read more...

Family demands $30 million from Amazon for a hoverboard that put their house in flames

Justin Luna — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 13:26:01 +0000

A family in Nashville, Tennessee is suing Amazon after selling a hoverboard, which was responsible for burning down their home. They contend Amazon knew it was dangerous, but still decided to sell it. Read more...

Fox is hosting a massive movie sale at the Windows Store

Usama Jawad — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 09:34:01 +0000

Fox is hosting a huge movie sale at the Windows Store, with 45 titles available for $4.99 each, in high definition, including Fight Club, L.A. Confidential, Taken, Night at the Museum and more. Read more...

Fox issues DMCA takedown against the original YouTube clip it put into Family Guy

Boyd Chan — Sun, 22 May 2016 11:34:01 +0000

In a temporary lapse of common sense, YouTube ended up taking down a user's video subsequent to a copyright claim from Fox after a portion of the video featured in last week's Family Guy episode. Read more...

FOX Sports Go updated as a Universal app for Windows 10 PCs and phones

Matthew Sims — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 09:14:01 +0000

Windows 10 users on both PCs and phones now have the ability to watch sports content on the go. Microsoft has updated the FOX Sports Go app which will host live and previously broadcasted games. Read more...

Giveaway: Zen Studios' Archer, Family Guy, American Dad, and Bob's Burgers pinball [Update]

Christopher White — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 02:06:01 +0000

Zen Studios is releasing their latest pinball pack, entitled Balls of Glory, on Tuesday and to celebrate we're giving away a Steam code to one of our lucky readers. Read more...

Balls of Glory Review: Family Guy, Archer, American Dad, and Bob's Burgers pinball tables

Christopher White — Sun, 18 Oct 2015 14:04:01 +0000

Zen Studios has released another 4-pack of pinball tables covering many of Fox's popular animated titles. Are these balls fun (giggity!) or boring (that's why we can't have nice things!)? Read more...

Netflix loses Fox series '24' to Amazon

Timi Cantisano — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 21:40:16 +0000

Amazon has gained the exclusive streaming rights to the acclaimed Fox series, 24. The deal will also include the new 24 series, 24: Live Another Day which will debut first on Fox on May 5th. Read more...

Foxnews.com goof up pushes headline a bit premature

Brad Sams — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 19:57:19 +0000

Foxnews.com appears to have been hacked and the homepage has been defaced with multiple banners and front page stories that are clearly not legitimate. Read more...

Hulu's owners once again decide not to sell

John Callaham — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 19:53:48 +0000

Hulu's owners (Disney, Fox and NBCUniversal) have decided once again to not sell off the streaming video service, despite taking bid proposals from other companies, and will now invest more into Hulu. Read more...

Rumor: Hulu could force users to prove they pay for TV

John Callaham — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:35:55 +0000

A new rumor claims that the streaming TV service Hulu could start asking its users to prove they subscribe to a cable or satellite TV subscription service to access their content. Read more...

Microsoft's harsh contract terms killed Halo movie

Tyler Holman — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 02:11:16 +0000

Microsoft expects too much, at least according to a new book, which claims that Microsoft's harsh contract terms and demands caused production of the Halo film to be killed. Read more...

BitTorrent downloads linked to Hollywood film studios

John Callaham — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:49:04 +0000

A new investigation of BitTorrent activities shows that a number of IP addresses belonging to major Hollywood studios have been used to download pirated movies and more from BitTorrent sites. Read more...

Fox to limit watching of new TV episodes online after August 15

John Callaham — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:54:56 +0000

The days of watching an episode of your favorite TV show online the day after the episode is shown on television may be coming to an end. The Fox TV network has announced this week... Read more...

Firefly is back... sort of.

Christopher White — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:21:46 +0000

"You can't take the sky from me." Joss Whedon's short-lived science-fiction/western series Firefly was canceled by Fox back in 2002 but fans of the show - calling themselves Browncoats - have never let the light die.... Read more...

Star Wars releasing on Blu-Ray in September

Christopher White — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 01:00:08 +0000

Since HD DVD and Blu-ray first came on the scene, everyone has been wondering when Star Wars would be available to purchase. According to Amazon.com, we now have our answer: September 27, 2011. There appears... Read more...

News Corp blocks Hulu access for Cablevision subscribers [update]

Brandon Boyce — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 03:00:47 +0000

News Corp and Cablevision have had a bit of a disagreement over fees recently, due to this disagreement around 3 million Cablevision subscribers have had News Corp channels, such as Fox, blacked out on their... Read more...

Major broadcast groups unite to create mobile content service

Brandon Boyce — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:50:02 +0000

Twelve major broadcasting groups, Belo Corp., Cox Media Group, E.W. Scripps Co., Fox, Gannett Broadcasting, Hearst Television Inc., ION Television, Media General Inc., Meredith Corp., NBC, Post-Newsweek Stations Inc. and Raycom Media, have teamed up... Read more...

Fox News: Bing is free porn portal

James Hall — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:03:28 +0000

Fox News has come forward with criticisms of Microsoft's recently unveiled search engine Bing, claiming that it provides "a cornucopia of pornography" and that it is easy to transform "the search engine into [your] very... Read more...

Fox, YouTube in Simpsons brawl

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:15:04 +0000

20TH Century Fox has served YouTube with a subpoena demanding it discloses the identity of a user who uploaded copies of entire episodes of 24 and The Simpsons. The subpoena, which first came to light... Read more...