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Ireland: €6.5m awarded in Sound & Vision funding

Coimisiún na Meán has announced €6.46 million in funding for radio and TV productions around Ireland as part of the latest round of the Sound & Vision scheme. Round 56 will support the production of 57 culturally significant projects for Irish audiences for broadcast across national, regional, local and community stations. This brings the total amount […]

September 18, 2025

United Group responds to Serbian “misinformation”

United Group has rejected “false and misleading claims” that the Group is seeking to curtail or otherwise compromise the editorial independence of N1 and Nova TV channels in Serbia, or sell them to Telekom Srbija or entities linked to the Serbian state. “These allegations are false,” the SE European bluntly stated. The declaration comes after […]

September 18, 2025

Record digital audience for BBC Proms

The Proms season concluded on September 14th with the celebratory Last Night of the Proms, rounding off a run of 86 concerts: 72 at the Royal Albert Hall and 14 at venues across the UK. The BBC reports that the Proms has increased its digital audience by almost a third since 2024 and there have […]

September 18, 2025

ThinkAnalytics AI recommendations for Watcho OTT

ThinkAnalytics, a specialist in video content discovery and persaonalisation, has announced that Dish TV India has chosen ThinkMediaAI to provide personalised recommendations across its Watcho OTT platform. ThinkAnalytics’ ThinkMediaAI product suite includes personalised content discovery, search, editorial curation, UX orchestration, A/B testing and business insights. ThinkAnalytics will provide search and personalised content discovery across more […]

September 18, 2025

Channel 4 to air FX’s Say Nothing

Channel 4 has licensed FX’s limited series Say Nothing from Disney Entertainment. The nine-episode series, based on the book by Patrick Radden Keefe, is a story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland during ‘The Troubles’ and will air on Channel 4 later this year. Spanning four decades, the series opens with the shocking disappearance […]

September 18, 2025

World of Love Island FAST channel on Prime Video US

Zoo 55, Part of ITV Studios is launching a new World of Love Island FAST channel for US audiences on Prime Video. A curated schedule of full episodes from the Love Island UK seasons 3 and 5 and Love Island Australia seasons 1 and 2, totalling 300+ hours, will run on the FAST channel accessible […]

September 18, 2025

Bomanbridge signs wildlife deal with DocLights

International distributor, Bomanbridge Media, has secured a multi-year partnership with Doclights, a German producer of natural history films, to take over their wildlife catalogue alongside new and upcoming productions. The agreement, cash valued at over $1 million, will see Bomanbridge take over the distribution of DocLights’ wildlife and factual content which totals close to 200 […]

September 18, 2025

BFBS TV marks 50th anniversary at RTS Cambridge

BFBS (British Forces Broadcasting Service) has marked BFBS TV’s 50th anniversary. First launched on September 18th 1975 in Celle, West Germany, this milestone coincides with the Royal Television Society’s (RTS) Cambridge Convention at King’s College, which the BFBS describes as “a fitting stage to celebrate five decades of trusted partnerships, delivering television to the UK […]

September 18, 2025Advanced Television @ RTS Cambridge

France: Ligue1+ exceeds 1m subs

At a meeting of the board of directors of the LFP, Nicolas de Tavernost, MD of LFP Media, announced its in-house Ligue 1+ OTT platform has surpassed 1 million subscribers just one month into the new football season. LFP initially indicated that it was targeting 1 million subscribers by the end of the season. As […]

September 17, 2025

Italy: Major anti-piracy operation launched

Officers of the Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza (Italy’s Financial Police Force) of Cagliari have, in recent day, carried out seizures and searches in various Italian regions to combat the illegal streaming of television content and to protect copyright. According to what has been learned from the investigative sources, the Financiers of the […]

September 17, 2025By Colin Mann