Local reports suggest that MTV Brazil, owned by media conglomerate Grupo Abril and operated under licence from Viacom, could be sold. MTV Brazil transmits free-to-air. Viacom at one stage owned a 50 per cent stake in the channel but Brazilian media regulations required it to divest a further 20 per cent, and in 2009 Abril […]
Despite earlier denials, Liberty Media has confirmed it’s spinning off pay-TV unit Starz into a separately traded public company. As a standalone premium network with licensing agreements in place to run Disney and Sony theatrical films, Starz could present an attractive acquisition target for predators. Starz closed the second quarter with about 20.7 million subscribers, […]
FOX International Channels (FIC) has partnered with Eredivisie Media & Marketing (EMM) by acquiring a 51 per cent stake. EMM, a company established in 2008 by the 18 Dutch Premier League (Eredivisie) football clubs and global TV production company Endemol, handles all the corporate media and sponsorship rights on behalf of the Dutch Premier League […]
CETel Group (Central European Telecom Services) announces the acquisition of the Teleport Kabel Deutschland Holding AG registered in Unterföhring, Germany, which has been designed and built by System Integrator Hitron GmbH. The antennas reaching up to 9.4m along with the corresponding RF infrastructure have been migrated successfully to CETel Group’s Teleport near Cologne and will […]
Australia’s Colonial First State asset management is buying Digita, the Finnish arm of French broadcasting services group TDF, for €400 million. TDF, backed by private equity groups TPG, AXA Private Equity and Charterhouse, operates more than 11,000 radio and television transmitters across Europe, offering broadcasting services to customers such as Kabel Deutschland , BT BroadCast […]
Deutsche Telekom is among the bidders for PrimaCom Berlin in a return to cable assets a decade after selling them off, according to reports. Offers were due last week after interested buyers studied PrimaCom’s financial data. A price of €250 million is expected.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (MGM) and Chellomedia, the international content division of Liberty Global, have agreed a deal in which Chellomedia has acquired MGM Networks Inc (MGM Networks). MGM will retain its network businesses in US, Canada, UK, Germany and its joint venture interests in Brazil and Australia. The acquisition gives Chellomedia ownership of MGM Networks’ channels […]
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has revealed it would not oppose the proposed acquisition by News Corp of 100 per cent of the shares in Consolidated Media Holdings Limited (CMH). CMH has a 50 per cent shareholding in Fox Sports Australia, which owns 50 per cent of the shares in Foxtel. “The ACCC’s view […]
Cisco has confirmed that it has completed the acquisition of digital TV technology specialist NDS Group. The announcement follows the July 24 clearance of the deal by the European Commission, which found that the merged entity would continue to face competition from a number of strong competitors and that customers, namely pay-TV providers, would continue […]
The USA’s Federal Trade Commission has approved the sale of NBCUniversal’s 15.8 per cent stake in A&E Television Networks to Disney. While few doubted the sale would be approved, the deal also values A&E at a quite staggering $20 billion. The asset sale also means that Disney and Hearst now each have a 50/50 stake […]