BBC Cymru Wales has agreed a free-to-air rights for three Welsh BKT United Rugby Championship matches over the festive period in partnership with Premier Sports. Scrum V Live will broadcast the live matches of Cardiff vs Scarlets on December 19th (KO 7.45pm), Cardiff vs Dragons on December 26th (KO 3pm) and Ospreys vs Cardiff on […]
The Culture, Media and Sport Committee of the UK House of Commons is to hold an evidence session with members of the BBC’s editorial guidelines and standards committee – BBC Chair Samir Shah and BBC board members Robbie Gibb and Caroline Thomson. The hearing is likely to take place in the next few weeks, with […]
Independent TV network Great, owned by Narrative Entertainment UK, has joined the Broadcast 2040+ campaign, a coalition committed to securing a long-term future for free-to-air broadcast TV and radio. As some in the TV sector advocate for a switch-off, Great says it is joining with the Broadcast 2040+ campaign “to push for safeguarding this crucial […]
A new 24/7 family-friendly animation channel is now available to UK viewers, as Cartoon Classics — a FAST channel distributed by Global Distribution Services — officially launches on Freeview Channel 214. Produced by Senseof.Media, the channel offers a lineup of classic and contemporary animated programming to 18 million households across the UK. Global Distribution Services, together with […]
Virgin Media O2 has announced the launch of a new FAST channel, Inside Outside, available to all Virgin TV customers directly via their set-top box. Inside Outside covers all things food, home and garden – with a range of shows fronted by established faces including Gordon Ramsay, Paul Hollywood, Heston Blumenthal, Kevin McCloud, George Clarke […]
ScreenHits TV has announced a partnership with Caracol Televisión, the Latin American broadcaster, to launch Caracol Mix – Caracol’s first FAST channel offering a line-up of Caracol’s most popular dramas, entertainment programmes and lifestyle shows. Available internationally (excluding Colombia), Caracol Mix will be accessible through ScreenHits TV’s global streaming and in-car entertainment platform, as well […]
Samsung TV Plus has partnered with NBCUniversal Global TV Distribution to launch Keeping Up With…, a new 24/7 TV channel dedicated to the Kardashians. The channel, exclusive to Samsung TV Plus, will bring fans hours of non-stop reality TV following the lives of the Kardashian-Jenner family when it goes live on November 12th. From the […]
The Culture, Media and Sport Committee of the UK House of Commons has written to BBC Chair Samir Shah to ask what action is being taken over concerns raised by a former adviser to the corporation’s editorial standards body. The letter asks for the Committee to be provided with the full report previously provided to […]
TiVo, a wholly owned subsidiary of entertainment technology company Xperi, has released its 2025 TiVo UK Video Trends Report, calling for established broadcasters to keep innovating to meet UK audience’s evolving digital habits. For the first time, the report reveals more than half (52.7 per cent) of broadcaster television content is being watched via apps […]
The combined online video and traditional TV markets, including revenue from subscriptions, on-demand transactions and advertising, are on track to reach $1 trillion (€0.86tn) in annual revenue by 2030. The findings come from two Omdia reports: Global Streaming: Key trends 2025–30 and Pay TV & Online Video: Global. With pay-TV flat, all of the growth […]