Sir David Clementi, Chairman of the BBC, has suggested that serving the 18-to-34 demographic, the so-called ‘smartphone generation’, is the Corporation’s biggest challenge as it responds to changing times and technologies in the broadcast world, needing to be
Vivendi’s Supervisory Board has unanimously appointed Yannick Bolloré as Chairman, replacing his father Vincent Bolloré. Vincent Bolloré, who owns more than 20 per cent of Vivendi’s shares via his family-controlled conglomerate, had been chairman of the French media group since 2014. “It’s time to make room for a younger generation,” he told an audience gathered […]
Formula 1 and games software specialist PlayON have become strategic partners in the fast-growing fantasy sports market. PlayON becomes the Official Daily Fantasy Partner of Formula 1 to include the integration of live Formula 1 Grands Prix via F1’s new OTT service F1 TV onto the PlayON platform in key markets. As part of the […]
Veteran TV executive Jane Latman has been named General Manager, Travel Channel. She will be responsible for the creative leadership and programming strategy for the 83 million subscriber network. Latman will continue to serve as executive vice president, development and research for Investigation Discovery (ID) and American Heroes Channel and general manager of Destination America. […]
Following the sale of Eutelsat’s Hispasat stake, Eutelsat’s representatives – namely Rodolphe Belmer, Michel Azibert, Ariane Rossi, Almudena Arpón de Mendívil and Edouard Silverio – have left the Spanish operator’s Board of Directors. The new board members nominated to represent Abertis are: Aristóteles Auñón, Martí Carbonell, José Luis Viejo, Laura Grau and Sebastián Morales. A […]
Jeremy Darroch, Sky Group Chief Executive, has suggested that the broadcaster is “in good shape” and “on track for the full year” as it reported results for the nine months to March 31st 2018. In what Sky described as “strong” financial results, it achieved a 5 per cent increase in like-for-like revenue to £10.1 billion […]
Facebook has changed its terms of service to put 1.5 billion members outside the protection of GDPR. The change involves users who will be regulated via its European headquarters in Ireland. The move, says Reuters, will see Facebook users outside the EU governed by Facebook Inc in the US rather than Facebook Ireland. It is […]
Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox turned down a sale of its entertainment assets to Comcast because the cable group did not offer to pay a break fee in the event that its proposed deal collapsed, according to a regulatory filing. The agreed Disney deal gives the Fox assets an enterprise value of $66 billion. The […]
The long-awaited, but much delayed, Initial Public Offering (IPO) for the AT&T-owned Vrio division is not going ahead – at least for the moment. Vrio looks after the DirecTV broadcast activity over South America and the Caribbean region. AT&T was due to mount the IPO today (April 19th) and only last week said the IPO […]
Mediaset and Atresmedia, the two largest TV groups in Spain, saw their profits drop by 12 per cent and 26 per cent respectively in the first quarter of the year, mainly due to a fall in ad revenues. Mediaset made a profit of €53.2 million, down 12.2 per cent on the same period last year […]