What started as a group of 11 publishers almost a year ago is now 17, and that popularity is creating challenges and new strategies. 

FCC is studying proposals that would prevent broadcasters like CBS from blocking online access to their programming in order to gain leverage during a cable retransmission negotiation. CBS says, yes it can.

The tech/culture Website says former BBC show "Top Gear" co-host Jeremy Clarkson "doesn't deserve a television program or our admiration." Clarkson is now a spokesman for Amazon and will soon co-host its "Great Hyper Showdown." On his show on the BBC, The Verge says Clarkson used an insulting term for Asians, and the nastiest slur for blacks. Also he allegedly assaulted a co-worker. 

Roker Labs, as in Al Roker, has partnered with open live video platform YouNow, and will introduce pilots early next year.  

To distinguish its new subscription service, YouTube reportedly wants to get streaming rights to TV series and movies. “Executives of YouTube … have met with Hollywood studios and other production companies in recent months to consider pitches and negotiate licenses for new content,” The Wall Street Journal reports, citing sources.

Survey by TiVo's Digitalsmiths unit says 48.2% of current pay-TV subscribers would consider keeping their pay-TV services if their provider made it easier to find things to watch; another 23.9% said their pay-TV bill was more than $151 a month, up from 21.1% two years ago, and 40.8% said they were paying more than they did 12 months ago.

Adobe is finally ready to kill Flash. “Not the Flash Player browser plugin -- Adobe said in 2012 that it would continue supporting the plugin for the next five to 10 years -- but Flash Professional, the main authoring tool used to create Flash animations,” ars technica notes. “With the Creative Cloud update coming in January, Flash Professional will sport a new name: Adobe Animate CC.”

The prolific TV legal drama producer will create "Trial," starring Billy Bob Thornton as a once-powerful (and boozy) attorney now fighting for the little guy, for Amazon Prime. It will debut sometime next year. 

The cast and producers of Fox's drama, "Bones," contend Fox sold re-run rights to the show at sweetheart prices to places like Hulu, which Fox has an ownership stake in, costing the show's profit participants millions. 

Digi-Capital’s report ties much of that growth to the  acquisition of industry leader Occulus by social networking giant Facebook, and$ $542 million funding of augmented reality start-up MagicLeap in a round lead by Google. It's expected there will be 30 million VR/AR headsets out there by 2020, up from three million anticipated next year