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Stream Hatchet launches AI-powered news platform

Stream Hatchet, a provider of data analytics for the live streaming industry and wholly-owned subsidiary of GameSquare Holdings, has announced the launch of its AI-powered news platform and a website upgrade. Stream Hatchet says its new website elevates traditional news sources by creating a dynamic AI-driven insights hub that delivers daily articles on relevant live […]

March 14, 2024

Survey: Consumers don’t want AI-generated news

In response to Google launching a program for news publishers which offers access to AI tools in order to help them produce content, Bynder has conducted a survey of 2,000 consumers in the UK & US, which uncovered that news articles are the form of written copy that consumers believe should be written by a […]

March 8, 2024

Here isn’t the news

Strange times in the UK news market. GB News continues to generate its own headlines by setting new records for Ofcom breaches, while Talk TV announces it is shutting down its broadcast version. News UK has decided its niche news channel was a bit too niche – the fact star turn Piers Morgan had already […]

March 5, 2024

Loss-making GB News receives further funding

Operating losses at troubled right-leaning news channel GB News grew 38 per cent to £42.4 million (€49.6m) in the year to May 2023, the business has revealed in accounts filed to Annual Companies House. The accounts for GB News Limited show 80 per cent year-on-year growth in revenue to £6.7 million, but also a 63 […]

March 5, 2024

India: News channels fined

The News Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority (NBDSA), the India broadcasting regulator, has fined three prominent news channels alleged to have been carrying content “that promotes hatred and communal disharmony, deemed to be in violation of broadcasting standards and ethics guidelines.” The channels are News18 India, Times Now Navbharat and Aaj Tak. They have been […]

March 4, 2024By Chris Forrester

Achilleos named BBC Exec News Editor, Streaming

Chris Achilleos has been appointed Executive News Editor, Streaming. This new role will play a key part in the BBC’s digital transformation plans as it grows streaming on BBC iPlayer, BBC News live pages and on the BBC website. Achilleos will lead three teams focused on single-story live streams; curation and amplification of some of […]

February 14, 2024

Joshi appointed ITV Head of News for West Country

ITV has confirmed the new Head of News for ITV West Country will be Nimesh Joshi, who is currently Programme and Digital Editor at ITV Central. Joshi has been in a leadership role within ITV News for more than a decade, with roles including Deputy Head of News at West Country in 2016 before becoming […]

February 13, 2024

CNN’s This Morning comes home to Atlanta

There was a time when all of CNN’s output came from Atlanta. It also had major news bureaux in London (for CNN International) as well as Washington DC (for US politics) and New York (for US business). But in a major move CNN is moving its important This Morning show from New York to CNN’s […]

February 6, 2024By Chris Forrester

BBC Sounds sees record audiences

Between October and December 2023, BBC Sounds data shows a record average weekly audience of 4.86 million listened to the BBC’s content on the platform, with a peak of 4.96 million weekly users. Christmas music contributed to a record 6.2 million plays for music mixes on BBC Sounds, up 32 per cent from 2022, and […]

February 1, 2024

Es’hailSat, TMC sign DSNG agreement

Es’hailSat, the Qatar Satellite Company, has announced a partnership with Total Media Cast (TMC) to be able to provide Digital Satellite News Gathering Services (DSNG) and Outdoor Broadcast Van (OBVAN) services in Qatar and across Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The two companies have agreed to collaborate with each other in the leasing of […]

January 22, 2024