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Viacom and CBS formally explore new merger proposal
Viacom and CBS are once again formally dating – with exploratory boards created at both…
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Channel 4’s Katz appoints Webb-Lamb as deputy
Channel 4’s Ian Katz has appointed Kelly Webb-Lamb to the new role of deputy director…
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Sony CEO steps down, CFO to take top job
Sony Corporation CEO Kazuo Hirai is due to step down in April after six years…
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Amazon pledges to continue to increase video budget
Amazon has said it will continue to invest in video content and will incorporate it…
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Kagan: 37.2m US households to go broadband only by 2022
The number of broadband-only households in the US is set to grow from 19.0 million…
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BFI: TV production spend jumps to £938m in the UK
Total UK production spend for high-end television programmes reached £938 million (US$1.33 billion) in 2017,…
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YouTube agrees football streaming deal with LAFC
YouTube has struck a deal with the Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC) to broadcast the…
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TV18 takes control of Viacom18 joint venture
India’s TV18 Broadcast has become the controlling shareholder in the channels business it operates with…
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Amazon replaces Hulu Japan as exclusive HBO home
Amazon Prime Video’s Japanese wing has struck a deal to bring major HBO titles such…
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Supermedium browser for web-based VR goes live
Supermedium, a new startup from members of the original Mozilla VR team, have launched a…
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Juniper: OTT to reach value of US$119bn by 2022
Over-the-top (OTT) providers of digital TV such as Netflix and Amazon, are set to reach…
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BBC renews Premier League highlights package
The BBC will continue to show Premier League TV highlights in the UK for a…
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Warc: UK ad spend up 3.5% in Q3 2017
UK advertising spend rose 3.5% year-on-year in Q3 2017 to reach £5.4 billion, marking the 17th…
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Accenture: 86% of viewers don’t want to juggle OTT services
Global viewers would rather not juggle OTT services such as Netflix and Amazon and would…
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Altice integrates Netflix across its Optimum footprint
Altice USA has integrated Netflix into its new Altice One platform, which is now available…
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RYOT Studio appoints former YouTube exec as chief business officer
RYOT Studio, the next-generation creative studio owned by Verizon subsidiary Oath, has appointed former YouTube…
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Starz Play agrees new Etisalat deal
Starz Play has agreed a new five-year deal with Etisalat, which will distribute the Middle…
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Boxer Systems agrees V-Nova partnership
Boxer Systems, a UK solution provider for the video, film and TV markets, has agreed…
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Viacom hires ex-Myspace and BBC Worldwide execs
Viacom International Media Networks has hired a former Myspace exec, Chris Ellis, to become its…
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Oath appoints new CFO amid strategic expansion plan
Verizon subsidiary Oath, the patent company of brands like AOL, Yahoo and HuffPost, has appointed…
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Eutelsat: Yah 3 satellite ‘operating nominally’
Satellite operator Eutelsat has said that the Yahsat’Al Yah 3 satellite is “operating nominally” following…
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CNN appoints EMEA content sales lead
CNN International Commercial (CNNIC) has appointed Roland Nikolaou as senior director, content sales and licensing…
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Eurodata: TV industry increasingly looking abroad for ideas
Of the roughly 9,000 new and recurring TV programmes that aired in 2017, some 46%…
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Lionsgate ‘very interested in merger’
US studio Lionsgate is “very interested” in a merger deal and is talking to various…
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Report: Chinese video service Kuaishou to raise US$1bn in funding
Tencent-backed Chinese live-video service, Kuaishou, is reportedly close to securing US$1 billion in funding in…
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Dutch broadcaster NOS appoints new CEO
Dutch public service broadcaster NOS has appointed the director of Dutch broadcasting association BNNVARA as its new…
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TiVo: US leads average number of TV hours viewed
TV viewers in the US watched an average of 5.1 hours of content per day,…
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Jeffrey Katzenberg mobile service NewTV makes CEO hire
Jeffrey Katzenberg’s upcoming mobile video service, NewTV, is nearing launch with the hire of Hewlett…
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Chernin-backed Otter buys up Fullscreen
Online content companies Fullscreen and Ellation are now a fully owned subsidiary of web video…
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TVT Media boosts Asian presence with new hire
Content services company TVT Media has appointed former Globecast executive, Jason Ho, to the newly…