Netflix has become the frontrunner among the media giants seeking to acquire Warner Bros Discovery (WBD). According to reports, WBD has now entered into exclusive talks to sell its streaming and studio businesses – including the likes of HBO Max, the Harry Potter Universe and DC Comics – to Netflix. Whilst Comcast and Paramount Skydance […]
Versant, Comcast’s planned spin-off of select media brands and digital businesses, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Free TV Networks (FTN), a provider of free over-the-air digital broadcast networks and free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) channels in the US. Versant says the transaction will broaden its entertainment portfolio, expand distribution across key audience segments, […]
Pixitmedia by DataCore’s inaugural global State of Media Archiving survey has revealed a decisive industry shift in media and entertainment (M&E), with 85 per cent of respondents planning to migrate to a horizontally integrated approach to their asset and media management. This signals a clear departure from fragmented, multi-generation systems, as integration costs, data silos […]
The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) and Netflix celebrate five years of every film and TV series on the service carrying BBFC age ratings and content advice, as findings show these ratings are widely recognised and help parents to make informed viewing decisions for their families. In a survey of 2,000 parents in the […]
Channel 4 has announced the promotion of Laura Marks to the role of Head of Digital Commissioning following the departure of Sacha Khari. Reporting to Ian Katz, Channel 4’s Chief Content Officer, Glasgow-based Marks will oversee the commissioning and development of all original digital content across Channel 4’s social and digital-first platforms, including digital channels […]
AST SpaceMobile together with telco giant AT&T is to start beta-tests of its Direct-to-Cellular satellite service over the US. A statement talked of using “real smartphones” in the tests and using the first five AST satellites already in orbit. AST is due to launch a much larger satellite in a week’s time from an Indian […]
SWISSto12, a Switzerland-based aerospace company, has issued a trading update, and the numbers are impressive.Key to the numbers is the market’s enthusiasm for the company’s HummingSat product. HummingSat is a smaller craft yet can operate at geostationary orbits. · 40 per cent revenue growth and 38 percent workforce expansion in 2025 · Significant progress on […]
Middlechild Productions is launching Wildchild Studios, a new sister company dedicated to creating digital content. “We’ve been making digital first content for a while now,” commented David Sumnall Founder and CEO of Middlechild Productions, who will oversee Wildchild alongside MD Andrew Eastel. “It felt like the perfect moment to create a stand-alone studio built entirely around digital storytelling and innovation.” […]
Italy’s Reti Televisive Italiane (RTI) and Medusa Film, both part of the Mediaset Group, have launched legal action against US-based generative AI company Perplexity AI. This lawsuit, filed with the Civil Court of Rome, marks the first legal challenge in Italy specifically targeting copyright infringement related to the unauthorised use of content for training AI […]
Everyone TV has announced more streaming channels will be added to its live and on demand streaming platform, Freely, via partnerships with Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) UK & Ireland and CNN. CNN Headlines, a channel featuring the top stories in global news, business and sport, tailored for international audiences, is available immediately on Freely on […]
During the past year, traditional TV in Denmark has dropped by over 10 minutes in daily viewing time per person, reports Mediavision. That viewing is moving to digital platforms as streaming services and social video now gather 65 per cent of all video viewing. “Both social and other online video continue to grow, at the […]
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has created a €500 million fund for Space-based technology. The fund, ‘Space Tech EU’ is intended to bring together the skills of the of EIB, the European Commission and the European Space Agency (ESA) to help de-risk space projects, making them more acceptable for other financing from European banks. The […]
You don’t have to be as old as me to remember the dotcom crash of March 2000. But, by the same token, there are plenty of senior executives and fund managers around who would have been children at the time. Are their perceptions of the inevitability of AI’s success, their assumption that we are all […]