The EBU has confirmed two senior internal promotions within the Management Team of the EBU Media Department. Matthew Trustram, a senior EBU project manager with more than 10 years’ experience at the organisation, has been appointed as the EBU’s Head of Television, with immediate effect. He replaces Jeroen Depraetere, who left in December 2019 after […]
The BBC’s Director of Creative Diversity June Sarpong has committed to hardwire diversity and inclusion throughout the BBC – within its creative decision making, production values and content. As laid out in the BBC’s Annual Plan, diversity and inclusion is a top priority for the BBC. This mission statement on International Day of Diversity reaffirms […]
The BBC has revealed that it is considering bringing back BBC Three as a scheduled linear channel, four years after it became online only. In announcing its Annual Plan, which sets out its intentions and future priorities for the year, the BBC said: “We will step up our commitment to better serve young audiences who […]
With Netflix adding 16 million subscribers in the first quarter of 2020 and popular YouTube workout coach, Joe Wicks, starting his own show on Channel 4, the almost-total lockdown of the world’s population has led to a boom in the consumption of audio-visual entertainment. At the same time, organisations across the arts, leisure and fitness […]
The BBC’s Annual Plan reveals that people across the UK have turned to the broadcaster in record numbers as a source of news, entertainment and companionship during the Covid-19 pandemic. New figures show that as many as 94 per cent of the UK adult population – and 86 per cent of younger people – have […]
The European Commission has approved Telia Company’s decision to license standalone OTT rights, in Sweden and Finland, to Discovery Networks. The European Commission approved the acquisition of TV4, C More and MTV on November 12th, 2019 enabling Telia Company to proceed in the Nordics with its strategy of creating convergence that can meet customers’ demands […]
On May 14th, SpaceX filed a document with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) saying that the rocket launch company does not expect the current Covid-19 crisis will affect its ability to meet the FCC’s accelerated [launch] timeline at SpaceX’s standard fees of $62 million per Falcon 9 launch. This prompted a note to clients from […]
Intelsat’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy is likely to take between 6-12 months to process and allow the satellite operator to cut its $17 billion of debt by about half. CCO Samer Halawi, talking to Space News, said that despite the bankruptcy procedure the operator was still able to order next-generation satellites because of the bankruptcy court’s […]
ITV, BBC, Sky, Channel 4, Channel 5, STV, ITN, the Association for Commercial Broadcasters and On-Demand Services (COBA) and Pact have joined forces to introduce new industry-wide guidelines for producing television safely in the weeks and months ahead. The guidelines are intended to enable a return to production for the television industry. This guidance covers […]
UK broadcast regulator Ofcom has imposed a sanction on the licensee Loveworld Limited, which broadcasts the religious television channel Loveworld, after a news programme and a live sermon included potentially harmful claims about causes of, and treatments for, Covid-19. Ofcom’s investigation found that a report on Loveworld News included unsubstantiated claims that 5G was the […]