One of cricket’s fastest growing format, the T10, is scaling new heights every day and one of the next destinations is the US, where some of the most loved legends of the game will battle it out for top honours. The inaugural edition of the US Masters T10 League, the first edition of the T10 […]
LADbible Group has announced the launch of LADstudios, its data-driven factual entertainment division, in the US. LADstudios will focus on producing dedicated content for an American audience, building AFP commissions and sponsorships and driving growth in direct revenue with UNILAD, which currently has 58.6 followers multi-platform, becoming the central point of the Group’s offering in the […]
Pure Flix, a faith and family streaming platform owned by Sony Pictures Television, and Great American Media, home to a portfolio of family-friendly media brands, have announced the signing of an agreement to merge the two companies. Pure Flix will become part of the merged company, with Great American Media contributing two cable networks (Great […]
Grove Street FM, a provider of localised content in rural Central Virginia, has signed and released 150 new streaming channels from FAST Channels TV to its growing community of viewers. The channels are streaming at no charge to their viewers in an Ad based model Grove Street FM chief executive officer, Woody G. Watts, commented: […]
Intelsat used the NAB show in Las Vegas to announce that it was now the exclusive satellite distributor for the US Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) transmissions. More than 150 affiliates take Intelsat’s PBS signals. PBS is a private, non-profit broadcaster, founded in 1969, whose members are America’s public TV stations. It is a multi-platform media […]
Amagi, the global leader in cloud-based SaaS technology for broadcast and connected TV, has announced an expansion of its partnership with leading Spanish-language media company Estrella Media to streamline its ingest segmentation, creation, distribution, and monetisation of its Free Ad–supported Streaming TV (FAST) channels. Estrella Media is a leading Spanish-language media company and one of […]
Harmonic has announced growing momentum for its XOS software-based advanced media processing solution as ATSC 3.0 deployments skyrocket across the US. Harmonic’s XOS software solution is powering NEXTGEN TV services in major designated market areas (DMAs) including Boston, Miami and San Francisco, enabling the delivery of ATSC 3.0 channels with greater bandwidth efficiency and enhanced […]
Great American Family has extended its streak as the fastest-growing network on US TV ranking #1 in ratings growth for First Quarter 2023. The new leader in original Christmas movies, seasonal rom-coms and family-friendly series and specials closed out the quarter with the highest increases for Total Day ratings in Households and Total Viewers, and […]
Parks Associates tracked 354 independent OTT services in the US in 2022, with its OTT Video Market Tracker revealing that 87 per cent of US internet households having at least one OTT subscription service. “Despite the dominance of subscription OTT services, 44 per cent of households continue to watch some form of pay-TV, indicating that […]
US media owners advertising revenues grew by a healthy 6 per cent in 2022 (excluding cyclical ad spend) to reach $315 billion (€291bn). However, ad spend slowed down significantly through the second half, and fourth quarter ad sales were flat year-over-year, reports media investment and intelligence company MAGNA. Looking at 2023, there are mixed economic […]