BBC Three has given Michelle Visage her own show, produced by the award-winning World of Wonder and centred around her personal mantra of ‘Get Off Your Ass’. Aside from vogueing on Strictly and being RuPaul’s trusted sidekick of many years, Visage is a former doyenne of the New York Ballroom scene, a former girl band […]
Pay-TV revenues in Canada and the US peaked in 2015 at $112 billion (€102.1bn). Digital TV Research forecasts that revenues will fall by $50 billion to $62 billion in 2025. Revenues will drop across the board. Cable revenues will decline by
UK broadcast regulator Ofcom has published a review of how public service broadcasting (PSB) has delivered for UK audiences over a five-year period (2014 – 2018). The Communications Act 2003 sets out the purposes and objectives of PSB and the television services responsible for their delivery. It also requires Ofcom to periodically review the PSB […]
The two largest private FTA TV groups in Spain, Mediaset and Atresmedia, have weathered the ad crisis in the country and achieved profit in 2019. Mediaset ended the year with a profit of €211.7 million, up 5.7 per cent, whereas Atresmedia’s profit amounted to €118 million, up 33.8 per cent. The TV groups saw their […]
Discovery has reported mostly positive financial results for the quarter and full year ended December 31st 2019. David Zaslav, President and Chief Executive Officer of Discovery, commented: “2019 was a year of promises made and promises delivered. We achieved more than $3 billion (€2.74bn) of free cash flow and brought leverage down to the low […]
French telcos Bouygues Telecom, Free Mobile, Orange and SFR have all submitted a tender package to comms regulator Arcep for the award of licences to use frequencies in the 3.4 – 3.8 GHz band in Metropolitan France All four candidates have stipulated their desire to obtain one of the four blocks of 50 MHz that […]
A report in its home country of Finland said Nokia is considering strategic options and was working with advisers to consider potential asset sales and mergers, citing people familiar with the matter. Nokia declined to comment. In October, Nokia slashed its 2019 and 2020 profit outlook and halted dividend payouts, saying profits would come under […]
A joint filing to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) this week by SES and Telesat criticised Intelsat for giving the FCC “false characterisations of the C-Band Alliance, and [Intelsat’s] misleading attempts to distance itself from the CBA”. The letter added that the CBA itself hoped to be appointed by the FCC to coordinate the complete […]
Ottawa-based Telesat’s CEO Dan Goldberg has met with senior figures at the FCC to express their dismay that fellow CBA member Intelsat “would now – after a fundamental framework had been agreed upon among the CBA members and the Commission as reflected in the Draft Order – turn on the CBA and the Commission in […]
Discovery has announced that Lisa Holme has joined the company as Group Senior Vice President, Content and Commercial Strategy, Direct-to-Consumer. Holme is based at Discovery’s Los Angeles office and reports directly to Discovery’s CEO, Global Direct-to-Consumer, Peter Faricy. In this newly created role, Holme is responsible for setting the content strategy for Discovery’s DTC products […]