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Continuing to expand its relationship with Big 12 schools, Fox Sports has struck a deal with Learfield Spors for various tertiary rights to Oklahoma State action.

Adobe Systems has announced new features for its Project Primetime platform for the delivery and monetization of content across multiple platforms that include a new ad-insertion service, Adobe MediaWeaver, and the Primetime Media Player.

Adobe has been rolling out new features for the Project Primetime platform all year and with the addition of these two components is now making a beta version of the technology available.

In a partial defeat and partial victory for the company, the FCC has ruled that NBCU cannot exclude films less than a year old from its Comcast/NBCUniversal Order benchmark condition requiring the programmer to make its content available to competing online video distributors if that distributor gets comparable fare from one of NBCU's peers not affiliated with that OVD.

But the commission also said that requirement does not extend to such programming or other programming that would breach particular exclusive licensing agreements common to the industry.

Online video streams are turning into raging rivers.

Fueled by Netflix and other real-time streaming media, North American Internet users nearly tripled the amount of monthly data they consume over wireline networks in the last year, according to a report by bandwidth-management equipment vendor Sandvine.

The Nook Media subsidiary of Barnes & Noble has announced that it has inked content licensing deals for its new Nook Video service with a number of major studios, including NBCUniversal and 20th Century Fox Home.

The deal mean that purchasers of the new Nook HD and Nook HD+ tablets that are scheduled to begin shipping this week will have access to "thousands of movies and TV shows" in Nook Video catalog.