A family-friendly move by Netflix Inc. (Nasdaq: NFLX) to let subscribers with streaming-only accounts watch video on more than one device leads today's cable news roundup.

Netflix may allow subscribers to pipe videos to multiple devices simultaneously. (See Netflix Debuts Streaming-Only Option .)

Dish Network LLC (Nasdaq: DISH) plans to shutter 1,000 Blockbuster Inc. stores. (See Dish's Latest Buy Is a Blockbuster .)

Does anyone find it odd that Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) and DirecTV Group Inc. (NYSE: DTV) subscribers have HBO Go, but customers of the premium programmer's former corporate sibling, Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE: TWC), can't access HBO's TV Everywhere site? (See HBO to Premiere New Series on Web.)

NBCUniversal LLC will pay the NHL more than US$200 million per year to renew its TV rights deal for Versus.

Royal Philips Electronics N.V. (NYSE: PHG; Amsterdam: PHI) is exiting the TV manufacturing business.

ESPN dropped all poker advertising and programs, after the feds indicted the owners of PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker.

Cable's tru2way platform showed some retail legs at the CableLabs home networking interop. (See Tru2way Shows Its Premium TV Colors.)

LOVEFiLM International Ltd. is the first online movie rental service to strike a deal with Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) to rent movies to subscribers in the UK and Ireland.

BP squeaked by Bank of America to win The Consumerist's 2011 Worst Company in the World tourney, after beating last year's champ, Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK), in the final four.

— Steve Donohue, Special to Light Reading Cable, and Jeff Baumgartner, Site Editor, Light Reading Cable