In a deal that it says strengthens its position as market leader in media monitoring in Ireland, media intelligence specialist Kantar Media has acquired multi-channel media monitoring provider Newsaccess. With the acquisition, Kantar Media enhances its reputation, PR monitoring and evaluation capabilities, bringing to clients an expanding set of insights and expertise into earned media. […]
UK cellular and TV distribution business Arqiva is up for sale. Arqiva has a near monopoly for the distribution of the UK’s digital terrestrial TV signals, and handles most of the Britain’s cellular towers. The company’s owners include pension funds under the control of Australian bank Macquarie, and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. Sources […]
Pan-European broadcaster RTL Group has decided not to exercise the call option for the remaining 49 per cent shareholding in Multi Channel Network BroadbandTV and will explore, jointly with the minority shareholders of BroadbandTV, all strategic alternatives for the company. The parties plan to mandate telecoms and media-focused advisory firm Liontree to lead this process. […]
French pay-TV broadcaster AB Groupe has been bought by Mediawan. Mediawan is the media investment consortium set up by production producer Pierre-Antoine Capton, Iliad Telecom founder Xavier Niel and Lazard France head Matthieu Pigasse. Mediawan is paying €270 million for AB Groupe, which is owned by Claude Berda and French commercial network TF1 (33.5 per […]
Verizon Communications is exploring a merger with cable MSO Charter Communications, reports the WSJ. Verizon, America’s biggest mobile operator, has a market capitalisation of $203 billion (€190bn), while Charter is valued at $84 billion, according to Thomson Reuters. Neither company would comment; Charter’s shares were up 10 per cent at $342 in premarket trading. Verizon’s […]
Google’s parent holding company Alphabet is edging closer to selling its expensively-bought SkyBox Imaging business, which it renamed Terra Bella after its $473 million (€441m) purchase. The prospects of a sale of the Mountain View, California high-resolution Earth observation business were originally reported on January 11th. The sale is now “essentially done” report sources. What […]
MTG is selling its 50 per cent stake in FTV Prima Holding to Denemo Media. The cash deal values FTV Prima Holding at €237.4 million. Closing is expected in Q1 2017. MTG is considering using the proceeds from the sale to increase its ownership in InnoGames from 21 per cent to 51 per cent, based […]
Cisco Systems has agreed to buy US business software company AppDynamics Inc for about $3.7 billion (€3.4bn), making one of its largest deals of recent years. Rob Salvagno, Cisco’s vice president of corporate development, said that the acquisition fits Cisco’s long-term direction and its transition toward software. AppDynamics makes software that manages and analyses apps […]
Following the receipt of the necessary regulatory clearances and the approval of its shareholders, Liberty Media has completed its acquisition of Formula 1. F1 has appointed Chase Carey as Chief Executive Officer of F1, in addition to his existing role as Chairman, and Bernie Ecclestone as Chairman Emeritus of F1. Ecclestone, who has given valuable […]
Pan-European broadcaster Sky has continued the growth of its international production and distribution business with the acquisition of a majority stake in one of the UK’s leading independent production companies, True North, and an investment in UK-based television drama production company from Chris Wright and Mick Pilsworth, Chrysalis Vision. Over the last three years, Sky […]