Yahoo's push to host exclusive TV and video content appears to have hit a major speed bump, as the company confirmed it had closed its dedicated Yahoo Screen hub site on Monday. Visitors to the Yahoo Screen site, which had hosted archival Saturday Night Live clips, a single NFL online broadcast, and the company's line of 2015 "original" series, are currently being bounced to the vanilla URL of http://yahoo.com.

iOS and Android app shoppers will no longer find the Yahoo Screen app as of today, as well, though Ars was still able to stream episodes of all three original Yahoo series—Community's sixth season and the pilot seasons of Sin City Saints and Other Space—on devices that already had the app installed. As of right now, those series are not promoted at any of Yahoo's major portals in an obvious way; we had to dig around before finding them buried in the Yahoo TV site at an inelegant "originals" URL.

The development follows Yahoo executives specifically citing the company's three TV series projects as money-losers to the tune of a $42 million write-down during a Q3 earnings call in October. At the time, Yahoo CFO Ken Goldman told investors that with "certain of our original video content, we couldn't see our way to make money over time." That call came before Yahoo had aired the NFL's first-ever, online-only regular season game, which drew an international audience of 15 million; the broadcast's rights cost Yahoo an additional $10 million.

Yahoo's original video portal has been named Yahoo Screen for some time, and before Marissa Mayer took over as CEO in 2012, the site had hosted a number of original video series—in particular, the Emmy-nominated, Ben Stiller-produced satire series Burning Love. In Mayer's first full year as Yahoo CEO, the company acquired the digital streaming rights to most of Saturday Night Live's archives, meaning fans who wanted to watch any online content from the series' older seasons had to head to Yahoo. That exclusivity deal has since expired, and NBC.com now hosts an SNL archival site that includes an incredible number of sketches from the series' 41 seasons—even ones from the awful Piscopo years.

The following year saw Yahoo pick up the remains of cult-hit TV series Community , and by the time its sixth season launched, the company had also announced its other two "original" series; before Monday, all of the series required visiting some form of the Yahoo Screen portal to view.

Update: A Yahoo spokesperson confirmed to Ars Technica that the Yahoo Screen portal has officially been shut down, telling us that the company's video content has been moved to its various "digital magazine" sites. "At Yahoo, we’re constantly reviewing and iterating on our products as we strive to create the best user experience," the representative told Ars. We were told that the Yahoo Screen app will continue to function for an "indefinite" period of time, while the representative was unable to answer any questions about plans to stream future major league sporting events.