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Record year for UKTV
BBC Studios-owned UKTV experienced a record-breaking year in 2021. UKTV, which operates channels including Dave…
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NBCU and RTL tie up ad inventory partnership
NBCUniversal has announced a new partnership with RTL Group’s ad business RTL AdConnect. The bilateral,…
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PPTV ordered to pay £150 million to Premier League over abandoned rights deal
Chinese broadcaster PPTV has been ordered to pay at least £156 million to the English…
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UFC joins discovery+ and Eurosport in Netherlands and Spain
Mixed martial arts giant UFC is to join the discovery+ streaming service in the Netherlands…
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Discovery becomes minority owner in OpenAP with exec duo to join board
Discovery has joined the likes of Fox, NBCUniversal and ViacomCBS as a minority owner in…
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ViacomCBS is Deutsche Bank analyst’s ‘top pick in media’
Noted Deutsche Bank analyst Bryan Kraft has provided ViacomCBS with an upgrade while calling it…
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NBCUniversal launches NBCUnified data platform
NBCUniversal has announced the launch of a new first-party data platform. The platform, called NBCUnified,…
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Polish president delivers veto of anti-Discovery law to Sejm
Polish president Andrzej Duda has officially delivered his veto of the controversial media law that…
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BeIN Sports secures French Open
Pay TV operator beIN Sports has secured exclusive rights to the Roland-Garros French Open tennis…
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Eleven Portugal on course to break even with 300,000 subscribers
Eleven Portugal is reportedly close to 300,000 subscribers, with the broadcaster confident of breaking even…
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RTL Group completes sale of VideoAmp ad tech stake
Broadcast giant RTL Group has completed the sale of its entire shareholding in VideoAmp, a…
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Eleven expands in SE Asia on back of Astro STL deal
Sports broadcaster Eleven has struck a four-year partnership with Malaysian pay TV operator Astro that…
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Tennis Channel picks up WTA rights in four European markets
The Tennis Channel has announced a two-year rights deal with the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA)…
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Television Jamaica joins ATSC
Television Jamaica (TVJ) is to launch NextGen TV as a full member of the Advanced…
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Media Group Ukraine kicks off 2022 with NBCU deal
Media Group Ukraine has announced a multi-year distribution deal with NBCUniversal to boost its content…
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AT&T secures ‘favourable’ IRS ruling as Discovery-WarnerMedia merger moves forward
US telco AT&T has secured a favourable ruling from the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS)…
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Molotov strikes deal with M6 for pay-tier distribution
French free-to-view streaming service provider Molotov has signed an agreement with the M6 Group to…
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ITV Hub set for ‘biggest year yet’
This year is set to be the biggest yet for UK commercial broadcaster ITV’s digital…
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SPI taps Bionic Media as Dutch sales partner for FilmBox
Channel provider SPI/FilmBox has struck a strategic partnership in the Netherlands making Bionic Media the…
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Mediaset scores victory in battle against rights theft
Italy’s Mediaset has scored another legal victory in its ongoing battle against content theft, in…
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Insight TV launches 4K channel on Comcast
Millennial-focused lifestyle programmer Insight TV has launched its Insight TV 4K channel across Comcast’s entertainment…
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African Movie Channel debuts in Guyana
International pay TV service provider and UK-based broadcaster African Movie Channel (AMC) is to take…
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Imearth ‘slow TV’ taps Cognacq-Jay Image for forthcoming launch
Imearth, a new ‘slow TV’ channel set to launch in France and internationally next year,…
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AMCNI and M7 strike expanded deal in CEE
AMC Networks International (AMCNI) and Canal+-owned pay TV operator M7 Group have struck an expanded…
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French competition watchdog takes action over M6 Salto commitments
France’s competition watchdog, the Autorité de la Concurrence, has launched a procedure to sanction commercial…
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Sky agrees to make F1 finale FTA on Channel 4
UK pay TV operator Sky has struck a partnership with terrestrial broadcaster Channel 4 that…
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BBC Studios names new COO
BBC Studios in the UK has appointed Martyn Freeman as its new chief operating officer….
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Molotov ordered to drop M6 channels
French OTT service Molotov has been ordered not to re-transmit the channels of commercial broadcaster…
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Channel 4 to return to Freesat
The UK’s Channel 4 is to return to free-to-view satellite platform Freesat after an absence…
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RTL names new head of tech services unit
RTL Group has named Christophe Goossens as CEO of the Group’s Luxembourg-based technical service provider,…