# TheBotWire TV & Streaming Industry News

> TheBotWire TV & Streaming Industry News is a paid API for AI agents from thebotwire.com, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Fetches the latest TV, broadcast, and streaming industry trade news covering carriage deals, platform launches, ratings, and distribution from sources like Broadband TV News, Cynopsis, TV Technology, and Advanced Television

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://thebotwire.com/tvstreaming/latest
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/thebotwire-tv-streaming-industry-news-8c74b819
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_EWtNbcsow4_r9TqoRCLmW

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability thebotwire-tv-streaming-industry-news-8c74b819
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest TV and streaming industry trade news from TheBotWire — show me up to 20 stories from the last 24 hours, filtered to Cynopsis, covering any new carriage deals or platform launches.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need curated TV, broadcast, and streaming industry trade news specifically from established trade sources like Cynopsis, Broadband TV News, TV Technology, and Advanced Television. Prefer it over general news endpoints when the focus is on carriage deals, OTT platform launches, ratings, or cable/satellite distribution. It is more targeted than the general breaking news endpoint on the same platform and better suited for entertainment-industry research agents, streaming recommendation bots, or media-tracking workflows that need industry-specific sourcing.

## Known failure modes

- No results returned if query terms are too niche or no recent articles match within the freshness window
- Invalid 'since' format (e.g. malformed duration string) may cause a 400 error
- Invalid 'src' enum value returns an error or empty result
- Rate limiting or payment failure returns 402 or 429
- Freshness window too short (e.g. 30m) may return zero results during off-peak hours

## How this service works

TV, broadcast and streaming industry trade , carriage deals, platform launches, ratings, a. The same buyer profile that already paid for 'film' , media-tracking agents, streaming-recommendation bots, and entertainment-industry research tools

## Output

Returns a list of trade news articles from TV and streaming industry sources including headlines, publication source, timestamps, and article content or summaries covering carriage deals, platform launches, ratings, and broadcast technology developments.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/thebotwire-tv-streaming-industry-news-8c74b819/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from thebotwire.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/thebotwire.com/llms.txt)