Kristin Brzoznowski

LOS ANGELES: Gunpowder & Sky has acquired the independent content sales and distribution company FilmBuff.

LOS ANGELES: At last night's 68th Emmy Awards, Game of Thrones was crowned best drama, while Mr. Robot's Rami Malek and Orphan Black's Tatiana Maslany each took home their first win in the category.

LONDON: A series of executive changes have been announced by NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke, as Ted Harbert, chairman of NBC Broadcasting, exits the company.

ATLANTA: Turner has entered into multiyear licensing agreements for the Star Wars movie collection through domestic deals with The Walt Disney Studios and 20th Century Fox.

NEW YORK: Time Warner Investments has led a $12 million Series B funding round for You.i TV, which provides a platform behind video apps across multiple devices.

PALO ALTO: The VR start-up Jaunt has named George Kliavkoff, who was previously part of the team responsible for the creation and launch of Hulu.com, as CEO.

UNIVERSAL CITY: Chris Heatherly has been named executive VP of worldwide games and digital platforms for NBCUniversal Brand Development.

NEW YORK: GfK, in collaboration with TVB, has revealed preliminary results from the Media Comparisons 2016 research study, with findings that American consumers spend more time with television than all other ad-supported media platforms combined.

BURBANK: Patrick Moran has been promoted to president of ABC Studios.

OTT video service adoption has increased 12 percent among U.S. broadband households since 2014, according to Parks Associates data. Parks Associates notes that adoption of OTT video subscriptions has increased by 12 percent since Q3 2014, with the number of available services and consumer awareness both increasing, despite password sharing growing by approximately 8 percent over that same time.