Roku Inc. and Fox Corp. reached a distribution deal late Friday, narrowly avoiding a blackout that would have removed Fox apps from the Roku streaming platform ahead of the Super Bowl. The tense standoff between the companies was the latest of a growing number of battles between channel owners and streaming-device manufacturers. These are the streaming-era version of the pay-TV carriage disputes that have sometimes resulted in channel “blackouts” when a pay-TV provider drops a channel, leaving its subscribers with no way...

Source: Wall Street Journal January 31, 2020 22:21 UTC