WWE, part of TKO Group Holdings, and Cosm, the immersive technology, media and entertainment company, has announced a multi-year partnership that will see WWE Premium Live Events (PLEs) – such as WrestleMania, SummerSlam and Royal Rumble – delivered to fans in Shared Reality at Cosm’s experiential venues in Los Angeles and Dallas. Fans attending WWE […]
ITV has announced that Creative Diversity Partner Sam Tatlow MBE has been promoted to take on the newly created role of Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, as Ade Rawcliffe takes up her expanded role as ITV’s Chief People Officer. Tatlow will continue to report to Rawcliffe and her role will be integrated into the […]
Disney+ has announced Caroline (w/t), an Original feature length documentary film that will celebrate the life and career of one of the UK’s most popular TV presenters, Caroline Flack, who hosted the likes of Love Island and The X Factor. The feature will follow Christine, Caroline’s mother, as she seeks to understand the events in […]
Pro Volleyball Federation (PVF) and Roku have announced a multi-year partnership in the US, which marks Roku’s first women’s professional sports partnership. Roku will broadcast 20 PVF matches during the 2025 season. Combined with PVF’s recently signed CBS Sports and Fox Sports deals, this increases the league’s national television coverage by 350 per cent compared […]
DirecTV, along with EchoStar, have raised concerns about the recently announced dismissal of Fubo’s claims against Venu and its shareholders and the lifting of the preliminary injunction that blocked the launch of Venu pending a full review of the claims against it. The Court issued its preliminary injunction after concluding that Venu and its shareholders […]
Disney Advertising, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, has shared its estimated global and domestic ad-supported monthly active users (MAU) numbers, cumulative across its streaming portfolio, and its detailed calculation methodology. At CES, President of Global Advertising, Rita Ferro, revealed that the company’s ad-supported monthly active users have reached an estimated 157 million globally, […]
Liberty Media has announced that Derek Chang has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer. Chang is a veteran executive across the global media, sports and entertainment industries. He has led operating, corporate development and investment teams at prominent companies during various stages of growth including EverPass Media, the NBA, DirecTV, Scripps, Charter and TCI. […]
Netflix and WWE have revealed that the debut episode of RAW on Netflix performed strongly, with the January 6th programme capturing 4.9 million Live+1 views globally. The inaugural event on Netflix averaged 2.6 million households (Live+SD) in the US, according to VideoAmp, which is 116 per cent higher than RAW’s average 2024 US audience of […]
Parks Associates research released at CES 2025 shows that 22 per cent of US households now receive their internet and mobile services as part of a bundle. This finding highlights a growing trend towards broadband expansion through the bundle of wired and wireless access. At CONNECTIONS Summit, the research firm and panels of industry experts […]
Network technology specialist Nokia has been chosen by UK digital infrastructure provider Openreach to build an open-access fibre network to serve millions of homes and businesses. Built using Nokia’s One Network Platform, the network will help Openreach support its target of connecting 25 million premises by the end of 2026, responding to the increasing demand […]