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Fox Sports app lands on Vizio smart TVs, adds Fox Weather FAST channel

As Parks AssociatesEric Sorensen pointed out in a recent column for Fierce Video, consumers are moving to the smart TV as their device of choice for streaming video entertainment, with the firm finding 60% of U.S. internet households naming smart TVs as their preferred video consumption device in Q1 2022.

“Similarly, advertisers, measurement companies and other industry players now consider the smart TV as the key video consumption device in the home,” Sorensen wrote.

From the article, "Fox Sports app lands on Vizio smart TVs, adds Fox Weather FAST channel" by Bevin Fletcher.

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