TV5MONDE's FAST channels are now available in more than 275,000 hotel rooms in North America via an agreement with SONIFI.

Gracenote's latest SVOD data drop—which now includes HBO Max—has found that sports is the fastest-growing category on global SVOD services, accounting for 5% of overall slates.

A new FAST channel from Stingray focused on fishing expeditions has landed on The Roku Channel in the U.S.

FAST is now a fixture of the U.S. media ecosystem, "not a fallback," Hub Entertainment Research says in its latest report, which also calls creator content the "next conversion engine."

Canadian public broadcaster CBC is upping its documentary spend by C$7 million and is rolling out a new FAST channel this fall to replace the specialty service documentary Channel, which is ceasing operations at the end of August.