Roku Inc. has received $45 million in strategic investment from major media companies News Corp. and British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) along with returning investors Menlo Ventures and Globespan Capital Partners.

The Weather Channel Companies have named David Kenny as chairman and chief executive officer. He succeeds Mike Kelly, who joined the company as president and CEO in 2009.

Forget to set the DVR? A new unit called Promise solves that problem by simply recording everything that gets broadcast.

Twentieth Century Fox today became responsible for a dip in productivity as fans use its new online app to morph themselves into "Family Guy" characters.

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Statistical analysis is confirming something many Google+ users have begun to suspect – it's a boy's club. Two companies have released data that indicate...

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment today formally released its new Facebook game "The Big Bang Theory: Mystic Warlords of Ka’a," which has been in beta since July 27. The timing is not accidental. Warner Bros. Television's hit comedy returns to the screen tonight on CBS in back-to-back episodes kicking off its fifth season, having recently started to air five nights a week in off-network syndication.

Hockey fans can test their in-game predictive powers with the licensed NHL PrePlay second screen app, which lets fans play along with the televised action, pitting their expertise against everyone else or just a private circle of friends.

Valve Corp. is giving away Portal, one of its best-known titles, to encourage use of the game to teach principals of physics and critical thinking. The only catch is that people must first install the company’s Steam game platform client to their PC or Mac. That’s free too, but it does require registration. It’s part of Steam’s “Learn with Portal” campaign and runs until Sept. 20, when the game returns to its $10 regular price.

Further demonstrating belief in the platform’s potential, Ben Silverman's Electus today confirmed that Bruce Seidel has been named CEO of the multimedia entertainment studio’s upcoming food-centric YouTube channel.