Channel 4 reported it has delivered a three-fold year-on-year increase in UK viewing of full episodes of TV shows on YouTube in Q1, and its made-for-social network Channel 4.0. The first of a new quarterly update on Channel 4 social performance, based on UK views in 2024, highlights progress made against its Fast Forward strategy […]
BT Group has announced a revision to its timetable for moving all customers off the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and onto digital landlines. The move follows the introduction of a series of improvements to the programme to better protect vulnerable customers and those with additional needs. BT Group’s Consumer division has restarted switching zero-use […]
UK PSB-backed streaming service Freely is celebrating its launch by giving UK residents the chance to win a new Hisense TV by finding a specially branded Freely cab. Freely’s new advertising campaign and tagline ‘Set Yourself Freely’ nods to the ease of the new service by showing people they can set themselves free from TV […]
Nielsen ad spend data for Thailand shows that advertising investments by marketers rose 4 per cent in January to April 2024, compared to the same period a year ago. This increase of more than baht 1,255 million (€32.07m), period-on-period, echoes a predicted rise in ad budgets, according to Nielsen’s 2024 Annual Marketing Report, which shows […]
Insight TV, the millennial-focused channel operator, has announced a partnership with Roku to bring its content to The Roku Channel viewers across the UK, the US, Canada and Mexico. The partnership sees Insight TV’s range of content now available on the Roku platform, offering viewers an array of programming completely free via The Roku Channel. […]
Elon Musk spent the weekend with senior politicians at the Indonesian resort of Bali, where the inauguration of Starlink was discussed with Indonesia’s chief investment minister Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan. The opportunities for Starlink are huge in the archipelago of some 17,000 often remote island communities of more than 270 million people. Starlink was launched at […]
Video software company, Synamedia, has announced that beIN Media Group has selected Synamedia Iris for the launch of a new broadcast advertising offering that is the first of its kind in the Middle East & North Africa (MENA). Using the Synamedia Iris addressable advertising platform, beIN will be able to create new, targeted advertising inventory […]
Following the announcement earlier this year that the ITVX streaming platform would be adding AMC collections to its service, ITV has now confirmed that AMC Reality will go live later this month. From May 30th, AMC Reality on ITVX will feature a host of reality franchises, with plenty of match making, impending nuptials, dress finding […]
Ahead of the 80th anniversary of the D-Day Landings on June 6th, Warner Bros International Television Production (WBITVP) has announced a raft of sales across Europe for its new commemorative series D-Day: The Unheard Tapes (3×60’). Produced by WBITVP company Wall to Wall Media for BBC Two and BBC iPlayer and co-produced with The History […]
CSI Sports, the parent company of Fight Sports, the broadcaster of premium combat sports content worldwide, has announced an expansion of the distribution of their syndicated network in the US. Through a new partnership with Gray Television, Fight Sports will extend its distribution by over 6 million households, strengthening its presence in markets across the […]
On June 6th, the Royal Albert Hall in London will host an anniversary event marking D-Day 80. The show will be broadcast on ITV and ITVX on June 9th, bringing to a close the national commemorations. The programme, hosted by Davina McCall, will tell the story of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy through a […]
Elon Musk’s Starlink broadband-by-satellite system has now equipped the entire Carnival Corporation cruise fleet of more than 90 ships with its equipment. Carnival operates its ships under its own name and also AIDA Cruises, Princess Cruises, Holland America Line, Seabourn, P&O Cruises, Costa Cruises, P&O Cruises and Cunard. Carnival Corporation CEO Josh Weinstein said Starlink’s […]
The Paramount logo is a mountain with a coronet of stars. Its sale still has a mountain to climb and the final outcome – pre-deal or post – is likely to be the current contenders, and others, picking and choosing between those star divisions of the business. When the movie (low budget straight to streaming) […]