LOS ANGELES: Apple Music has signed up as the global home of Carpool Karaoke, a new series from CBS Television Studios based on a popular segment from The Late Late Show with James Corden.

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BASKING RIDGE/SUNNYVALE: Verizon is acquiring Yahoo's operating business for $4.83 billion in cash and is set to integrate the venture with AOL.

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SANTA MONICA: Independent studio Lionsgate is acquiring Starz in a cash and stock deal worth $4.4 billion.

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STAMFORD: NBCUniversal's networks and digital platforms will devote 6,755 hours to coverage of the Olympic Games from Rio this August, with 260.5 hours on NBC alone.

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Key findings of Nielsen’s Total Audience Report for Q1 2016 include that SVOD and DVR penetration are now equal at 50 percent of U.S. TV households. Live and DVR/time-shifted TV has 226 million adult users per month, Nielsen says, just behind radio usage at 240 million users per month. Adults spend 4 hours and 31 minutes on live TV per day, down by 1 percent on Q1 2015. Live, DVR and time-shifted viewing is down to 6 hours and 37 minutes.

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SANTA MONICA/LOS ANGELES: The film franchise Step Up, which grossed $650 million at the global box office, is getting a series spin-off on the YouTube Red subscription platform.

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LONDON: Via a new pact with technology outfit Mirriad, clients of Havas Media Group can digitally integrate a brand into video content from leading producers, with a deal already in place with VICELAND.

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Parks Associates is urging media companies to develop advertising campaigns that are "integrated and nondisruptive to the viewing experience" for internet video watchers, releasing new data that shows that ad-blocking cost the digital publishing industries some $41.4 billion worldwide in 2015.

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CANNES: Vice is gearing up to bring its TV, digital and mobile services to more than 50 additional markets as it steps up its global expansion plans.

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NEW YORK: BET Play, a direct-to-consumer SVOD offering for the Viacom-owned channel BET, is being made available outside of the U.S., rolling out to some 100 markets.

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