Netflix has expanded around the world except China and some other closed-off regimes, but it appears that in a lot of those places, becoming a film translator was not considered a good career option.   Probably because Netflix has noticed its happiest subscribers actually understand the movies they are watching, it’s looking for some interpreters. TheNextWeb.com (TNW) says Netflix created a program called Hermes that quizzes would-be subtitlers, first determining their familiarity with colloquial phrases and their knowledge of the English language, though there are opportunities in which the interpreter is taking a foreign film …

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PBS began highlighting its worthiness on its Roku app in a section it calls "The Value of PBS Stations" just as the Trump White House readies to lower the boom on public media.

The timing of YouTube advertiser fallout couldn't be worse for the ad-supported long-tail video marketplace, and it couldn't be better for broadcasters, heading into the 2017-18 upfront and "NewFront" advertising marketplace.

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