Peter Chernin was, until 2009, COO at News Corp. He left and set up the Chernin Group, a TV and film production operation. Recent successes include a sitcom for the Fox Network (New Girl) and Rise of the Planet of the Apes and is in production on a new Tom Cruise movie (Oblivion). Chernin (60) […]
E! Entertainment TV can expect to have its broadcasting knuckles rapped for showing racy scenes from Girls of the Playboy Mansion when children might have been watching. Ofcom, the UK’s broadcasting regulator, in its latest set of rulings, says that the NBC Universal-owned E! Entertainment channel is being considered for a “clear breach” of its […]
Al Mustakillah is a UK-licensed Arabic-language satellite channel beaming its signals to North Africa and the Middle East. UK broadcasting regulator Ofcom says it is considering applying statutory sanctions on the broadcaster for what it states are “particularly serious” breaches of its broadcasting codes. The channel does not broadcast to the UK, and is not […]
The Australian High Court has dealt a damaging blow to the film industry with the dismissal of a copyright infringement appeal case against Internet Service Provider (ISP) iiNet in a landmark ruling. The High Court’s five judges unanimously dismissed the appeal. The court observed that iiNet “had no direct technical power” to prevent its customers […]
Sky Italia, the Italian satellite TV unit of News Corp, is considering taking part in an upcoming auction of television frequencies according to its chief executive. “It’s still early to say,” Andrea Zappia told Italy’s Il Sole 24 Ore. “We will decide … only when all the details are known.” The Rome government said this […]
When you don’t want the limelight, it seems like you just can’t shake it off. As more UK executives are arrested for bribing law enforcement and military officials, News Corps in America has had to suddenly, and arbitrarily, suspend the voting power of its foreign shareholders – holders that account for 36% of the stock. […]
Cinedigm Digital Cinema, the global specialist in digital cinema, has agreed to acquire leading entertainment distributor New Video Group, a digital aggregator of independent content and leading distributor of quality entertainment. Cinedigm’s acquisition of New Video will create a new full service end-to-end digital releasing studio, enabling the Company to acquire and distribute independent films […]
Germany’s ProSiebenSat.1 and RTL have suffered a further blow to plans to launch their own Hulu-like platform for watching TV shows soon after they air. The plan to aggregate their content on an ad-supported site was already opposed by regulators, on grounds of market dominance and now a German court has agreed with that assessment. […]
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has joined 12 other international broadcasting bodies in founding the landmark Future of Broadcast Television (FOBTV) initiative in at the NAB Show in Las Vegas. FOBTV stresses the unique attributes of terrestrial broadcasting as a flexible and efficient means of wireless media delivery. Its participants want to facilitate the evolution […]
The BBC will return nearly half the £600 million (€734m) fund it was given to help the elderly and disabled convert from analogue to digital TV after the switch proved more straightforward than many people had feared. A total of £603 million was allocated out of licence fee revenues to help the over-75s, the blind […]