Technology news programme BBC Click’s 1,000th show will be the BBC’s first full-length, interactive programme, letting viewers to choose how they want to watch it. Working with new tools created by BBC Research & Development, the programme will enable viewers to interact with the show, skipping ahead to the sections they’re really interested in, or […]
Discovery UK has delivered its strongest ever quarter in Q1 2019, growing its audience (aged 16+) by 14 per cent year-on-year to 3.13 per cent (including the acquisition of Scripps Networks Interactive). This was closely followed by the portfolio’s strongest Easter performance with adult share up 8 per cent year-on-year to nearly 4 per cent. Quest […]
US pop singer Taylor Swift released her comeback single, ME!, on YouTube on April 26th, with the video attracting over 65 million views in just 24 hours. YouTube revealed that it was the highest female and solo 24-hour debut for any music video in its history. Swift’s 65.2 million views bested Ariana Grande’s previous record […]
ONE Championship, the Asian mixed martial arts media property, has launched ONE Studios, its TV and film production division. ONE Studios is set to deliver television programmes and feature films starring ONE athletes. Chatri Sityodtong, Chairman and CEO of ONE Championship, commented: “Today I am thrilled to announce the launch of ONE Studios, the movie […]
Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) has secured the exclusive Nordic media rights to W Series, the world’s first all women motor racing championship. Every race from the 2019 W Series season will be shown live on NENT Group’s Viaplay streaming service and Viasat pay-TV channels, with selected races broadcast on NENT Group’s free-TV channels. Kim […]
Lagardère Studios and Wattpad, the global multiplatform company for original stories, have announced a French-language partnership to bring Wattpad stories to screens. Lagardère Studios will gain exclusive first-look rights for all French-language content uploaded to the platform to produce projects for TV, film, and digital adaptations. Projects for the partnership will be selected by combining […]
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts said in an earnings call that it is exploring the possibility of “launching a global NBC-Sky news channel later this year.” He said Comcast was moving ahead to combine key NBCUniversal and Sky assets, including some European TV channels and global content distribution businesses as well as to collaborate more closely […]
With April 26th marking World Intellectual Property Day, Yousef Al-Obaidly, chief executive of beIN Media Group, has taken the opportunity to call on the UK government to intervene in the illegal broadcasting dispute involving Saudi Arabia-based beoutQ. Writing in London freesheet City A.M., Al-Obaidly suggests the gathering storm of state-backed piracy is high on the […]
In a major governmental escalation of the global battle against the theft of world sport and entertainment by the Saudi Arabia-based pirate operation beoutQ, the US Government has published two reports that directly condemned and called for an end to the rampant Saudi-based piracy operation. The UK Government was also directly challenged in UK Parliament […]
In a move that strengthens video testing, monitoring and file-based quality control capabilities within its solution portfolio, digital media tools and workflow solutions provider Telestream has agreed a partnership with industrial growth company Fortive to integrate video test, monitoring and quality assurance solutions specialist Tektronix Video into the Telestream business. Founded in 1946 as part […]