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Providence Equity-owned Latvian service providers to merge
Providence Equity Partners-owned Baltic media and telecoms outfit Bitė Group plans to merge its Latvian…
DAZN poaches Canal+ exec Brice Daumin as French CEO
Sports media giant, DAZN Group, has hired former Canal+ exec Brice Daumin as CEO of…
nexfibre to invest £1bn in broadband infrastructure in 2024
Fibre network provider, nexfibre, has announced plans to invest £1 billion in the UK’s broadband infrastructure this year.
New version of Indonesia’s Vision+ debuts, powered by Mirada
Indonesia-based multinational conglomerate MNC Group has launched the planned updated version of its streaming service…
French service providers circle La Poste Mobile
French service providers Free, Bouygues Telecom and Orange have each made a bid to acquire…
Parrot Analytics: ‘Hazbin Hotel’ goes strong in Italy
Amazon Prime Video’s series Hazbin Hotel has soared to the top of Parrot’s top 10…
Liberty Global to spin off 100% of Swiss Sunrise to shareholders
Liberty Global is to spin off 100% of Swiss operating company Sunrise to shareholders. The…
OpenAI debuts Sora to create movie-quality video from text
Generative AI pioneer OpenAI has introduced a new interface that can produce videos of up…
TF1 records strong streaming growth in 2023, but overall revenue sees slight decline
French commercial broadcaster, TF1, has reported its former streaming offering, MYTF1 delivered a strong performance…
Plex taps castLabs for TVOD service launch
Streaming operator, Plex has tapped video technology provider, castLabs, for its cloud-based solution DRMtoday for…
Super Bowl 2024 attracts largest audience yet, with 123.7m viewers
The NFL’s Super Bowl LVIII 2024 event which got underway on Sunday February 11 attracted…
BBC hires head of ITVX news to lead streaming operations across news
UK free-to-air broadcaster BBC has poached ITV News exec Chris Achilleos to head its streaming…
NPAW: VOD engagement rises as smart TV use increases grip on viewing
Video-on-demand daily user engagement grew by 12% in 2023 for the first time in two…
BBC Sport strikes broadcast partnership with UK Athletics for 2024 major event series
BBC and UK Athletics (UKA) have entered into a partnership which will see the UK free-to-air broadcaster show coverage of the 2024 UKA’s major events series.
Over 5.5 million UK homes risk lack of access to traditional TV
Amidst the move of linear TV to online, over 5.5 million UK homes are predicted to be without a high-speed broadband subscription in 2040 which will see viewers struggle to watch content via traditional TV and further putting it at risk of decline, forecasts consultancy firm EY.
Love Nature and Deutsche Telekom expand partnership to Eastern Europe
Love Nature has expanded its partnership with telecommunications company, Deutsche Telekom Group across Eastern Europe.
Pluto TV France adds combat sports trio
FAST operator Pluto TV France has added three new combat sports channels to its offering….
WWE and X joins forces for exclusive live wrestling online series
Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter, is broadening its presence in the live sports…
Extreme E renews free-to-air broadcasting deal with RTVE in Spain
Extreme E, the off-road electric race series, has extended its broadcasting partnership with Spain’s pubcaster,…
DAZN to deliver global coverage of Super Bowl via NFL Game Pass
The highly anticipated Super Bowl LVIII event, taking place on February 11, will feature on…
Dutch Eredivisie returns to Japan’s Fuji TV
Japan’s broadcast provider, Fuji TV, has gained back the media rights to Dutch top-tier football…
ITVX earns record 315m streams in January
ITVX, the streaming arm of UK broadcaster ITV, landed a record of 315 million streams…
Sky hikes TV and broadband prices
UK pay TV operator and broadband provider, Sky, will increase prices across its TV and…
Disney narrows streaming losses as it bets on investment in Epic Games
Disney lost 1.3 million Disney+ streaming subscribers in its first fiscal quarter but reduced the…
BBC lands Super League TV rights in landmark deal
BBC has struck a three-season deal with Rugby League Commercial to live broadcast Super League…
ITV Studios’ The Graham Norton Show channel launches on Samsung TV Plus
ITV Studios is debuting a new dedicated channel featuring episodes of the BBC One comedy…
Disney’s ESPN holds broadcasting rights to Eredivisie until 2030
Disney-operated sports entertainment giant, ESPN, has retained the media rights to the Dutch football legaue,…
Advertising to see sports boost but linear decline persists
Spending on TV advertising around sports will rise significantly this year, driven by the US…
India’s Planetcast launches NexC cloud-first architecture
Indian broadcast technology and media services provider, Planetcast, has launched of its NexC cloud-first architecture…
BBC unveils Six Nations broadcast plans
UK pubcaster, BBC, has unveiled its broadcast plans of the international men’s rugby tournament, Six…