A+E Networks, a global media content company and VICE Media, the youth media brand and digital content studio, have announced a joint venture that will offer VICE as a new 24-hour channel programmed and produced exclusively by VICE. A+E Networks’ channel H2 will be transitioned to Viceland (working title). Launching in early 2016, Viceland will […]
UK free-to-air digital satellite platform Freesat has maintained its 2015 momentum by adding 6,000 new TV homes in the three months to the end of September. In total, 25,000 new households have taken up the service to date in 2015. Freesat is the preferred TV service for 1.9 million households, watched by more than four […]
Discovery is to offer “direct to consumer” programming App to its US viewers. Discovery’s president/CEO David Zaslav told analysts: “We have invested over the last year and a half primarily through our Eurosport partnership and in Northern Europe with the Eurosport app and with Dplay. We’re learning a lot. Both of those platforms are growing […]
A report released by Common Sense Media finds that teenagers (ages 13-18) use an average of nine hours of entertainment media per day and that tweens (ages 8-12) use an average of six hours a day, not including time spent using media for school or homework. Despite the significant amount of time teens and tweens […]
French commercial TV group M6 has posted an increased consolidated revenue for Q3 of €265.3 million, up 0.4 per cent, while the group advertising revenues jumped 3.2 per cent to €162.6 million in the same period of last year. Ad revenue from FTA channels contributed €153.4 million. At the end of September, M6 Group achieved […]
The National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) has revealed results from the first in a series of surveys of NATPE members on the future of the content industry. The initial survey focused on the current television content boom to assess the effects that the influx of scripted shows will have on the industry over […]
Samsung is officially backing the French-designed Serif TV, described by its designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, as a piece of furniture as much as a piece of technology. The sets are now available on a ‘made to measure’ basis. The design encourages the set to be used as a floor-standing unit. Looked at from the […]
A global survey of leading executives shows businesses are responding to an environment of rapid change and technological disruption by establishing partnerships across firms, industries and geographies. The second report in Telstra’s global research series, Connecting Companies: Strategic Partnerships for the Digital Age, found companies driving innovation today are increasingly relying on partnerships rather than […]
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has reported that two websites which it claimed had jointly become a clearing-house for illegal movie viewing were closed in October by orders from courts in Canada and New Zealand. The Popcorntime.io site, commonly referred to as Popcorn Time, was closed under an October 16 order from the […]
DEN Networks, one of India’s largest MSOs, is looking to raise 5 billion Rupees (about $76 million) in fresh equity to fund expansion. Local reports suggest that DEN’s board of directors has not ruled out borrowing the cash, but has meanwhile will be making a formal request to India’s Foreign Investment Promotion Board for permission […]