ITV aims to raise at least £150 million (€170m) from the sale of its headquarters on London’s South Bank. The landmark London Studios site is one of the biggest mixed use development opportunities to hit the market for several years and is being sold with planning permission for a 31 storey residential tower made up […]
OneWeb, the proposed super-constellation of 600 satellites, has surprised the market by dramatically cutting back on its planned launch of 10 satellites next month. Founder Greg Wyler now says that only 6 craft will be launched. Wyler, in a Tweet, says: “We built 10 in the factory per our plan and are launching 6. These […]
Formula 1 has registered a significant increase in its audience figures during the 2018 season, across both digital and TV platforms, compared to the previous year. In terms of unique viewers, during 2018 the sport once again had an improvement globally (+10 per cent), reaching 490.2 million. This increment is even
Acorn TV, the streaming service for British and international TV content operated by AMC Networks-owned RLJ Entertainment, has launched in Spain with a library of TV series and documentaries from the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and Canada. The service offers English-language content with English and Spanish subtitles for €4.99 per month. To access the […]
FIFA has awarded Mediapro the rights to the 2022 FIFA World Cup, which is to be held in Qatar between November 21st and December 18th, a change in calendar (due to exceptionally high temperatures during Qatar’s summers) that shifts the date of the competition to a period of the year in which television consumption by […]
Sony Pictures Television is closing Crackle Latin America as of April 30th. The SVoD service has some 400,000 subscribers across 17 countries, but Sony has deemed that the business isn’t economically viable. The streaming app first launched in April 2012 as a free, ad-supported service – akin to its US counterpart – before changing to […]
Unfortunately, Her Majesty the Queen cannot receive SiriusXM in the UK, with or without a seatbelt. However, in her name the Canadian Province of Alberta, and represented by the Alberta Investment Management, has bought 38,300 shares in US and Canadian pay-radio operator SiriusXM Holdings. The purchase is listed in the latest SEC filings from SiriusXM, […]
A+E Networks has secured a raft of new programming sales among LatAm and US Hispanic markets. “We are thrilled to continue to build partnerships which such top tier platforms across the Latin and the US Hispanic markets with compelling programming that resonates with and attracts viewers to the fold,” said Ellen Lovejoy, VP/Head of Content Sales, […]
The Bounce, a live, weekly studio show centred around the NBA, will debut today (January 21st) on Yahoo. The built-for-mobile show will feature a “nightly pulse of the league” with a number on top analysts and basketball legends. It will air five nights a week — Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday — and will run through […]
TV5MONDE, an international French-language TV channel, has chosen Orange Media Delivery Boost to enhance the user experience of its TV5MONDE Afrique mobile app. The app provides access to a large catalogue of videos, with service currently available in Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Tunisia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Orange Media Delivery Boost solution optimises web […]