Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution (TCFTVD) has appointed Manuel Alduy to run its French office. Alduy has been named MD of TCFTVD’s Paris office, where he will take charge of distribution of Twentieth Century Fox TV programming and SVoD. In his new role as senior VP of sales and development he will also help develop […]
Reports have surfaced that John Malone’s Liberty Media is seeking to take control of Formula One motor racing, with Sky News reporting that it is in detailed talks with F1’s controlling shareholder, CVC Capital Partners, about a transaction. Similar reports late June 2015 suggested that another of Malone’s companies, Liberty Global, was working with Sky […]
Ultra-HD/4K is hardly mass-market just yet, but already many industry players are looking to the ‘next big thing’ in TV’s never-ending road to higher resolution. Now, Japan’s public broadcaster NHK, along with the nation’s two giant electronics specialists, Sony and Panasonic, are to cooperate in order to further develop technology for TV’s capable to handle […]
Vivendi is reported as planning €300m of cuts at Canal Plus in a 2018 turnaround target for the loss making French pay-TV unit. The French media and content group plans cost cuts across the board, including broadcasting, distribution and production, yielding savings of €60m – €80m this year alone. The cost-cutting comes as Vivendi revealed […]
The battle over the April deal between the European media groups continues as Mediaset rejects Vivendi’s position on the aborted agreement between the pair in the strongest terms. The Italian group said Vivendi’s account of the events leading up to, and following on from its decision not to go ahead with contained “information without foundation” […]
BT’s mobile arm EE is to bundle Apple Music with mobile contracts in a move designed to increase subscriber loyalty and help the iPhone maker’s music streaming app challenge Spotify. EE subscribers “will be offered free for six months with a new contract to EE pay monthly customers, double the three-month free trial otherwise provided […]
Google is said to be preparing to cut half the staff of Google Fiber as it turns its attention to wireless technologies. According US reports Alphabet – the Google holding company – has targeting the 500 post cut after Fiber failed to meet sign-up targets for its high-speed broadband offering. Google Fiber was reported to […]
Indian DTH operator Videocon d2h says it expects to add 2.5 million gross new subscribers this fiscal year. Videocon d2h launched its TV service in 2010 and rapidly grew, within two years, to 5 million. Its Q1 trading period saw 600,000 gross subs added, and a net 430,000. The operator says it expects to see […]
Despite his own Vice Media’s massive success, Shane Smith used the MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival to warned there was a crisis coming in the media industry with consolidation among major players and an “evisceration” of digital businesses that are struggling to make their business models work. “Next year…. be a [expletive] bloodbath,” […]
European broadcast giant RTL has reported a 2 per cent decline in Q2 sales due to lower revenues at production unit FremantleMedia and competition for advertising revenue from the UEFA European football championship. The Bertelsmann-owned company said it expected revenues to recover in the second half, and raised its full-year profit forecast and promised an […]