The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has hired Andrew Elliott as Vice President, Content Policy Counsel to bolster its advocacy efforts at the US state and federal levels on issues involving the regulation of its members’ motion pictures, television programmes, and streaming services. Elliott joins the MPA from the law firm Jenner & Block LLP, where […]
Director of Digital Channels at Zoo 55/ITV Studios, George Cudmore, will join ITN Productions as Director of Digital Content. He will lead ITN Productions’ new digital arm with a team of digital specialists made up of new hires and existing staff to kick off a strategic programme of expansion. Rubina Pabini becomes Head of Digital […]
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the UK House of Commons will hold a scrutiny session on the BBC World Service at 10am on Thursday January 8th 2026, taking evidence from senior BBC officials including outgoing BBC Director General Tim Davie. The World Service’s budget (£358 million [€430m] in 2025-26) has fallen by 21 per […]
Global, the Media and Entertainment group, and The Overlap, the sports media group founded by Gary Neville, have announced a strategic partnership that will see Global become the majority stakeholder in The Overlap. The Overlap has become one of the world’s most popular football and sports destinations since launching in 2021, with more than 38 […]
Ideal Systems has announced the addition of seasoned Pro-AV veterans Mark Goh and Derrick Koh to its Singapore management team. Goh, CTS, joins Ideal as Director of Business Development and will assist with Ideal’s continued growth in South East Asia. Goh has over thirty years of Pro-AV industry experience and has previously worked with Sony, […]
The UK Space Agency says it has earmarked £210 million (€242.8m) to strengthen cyber resilience across the UK’s Government Cyber Unit to coordinate risk management and incident response across departments. The aim for these new measures is to make online public services more secure and resilient, so people can use them with confidence – whether […]
Integral Ad Science (IAS), the media measurement and optimisation platform,has announced that Melissa Furze joined the company as Head of Data Science at IAS reporting to the Chief Technology Officer. Furze will lead the company’s global data science, AI, and analytics strategy, partnering with product, engineering, and the commercial teams to accelerate innovation, strengthen protection […]
Comcast has announced the completion of its previously announced separation of Versant Media Group into a separate public company, effective as of January 2nd. Versant will commence regular-way trading today [January 5th] on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol VSNT. Comcast shareholders received one share of Versant Class A common stock or Versant Class B common stock […]
Sport streaming platform DAZN has been ordered to continue broadcasting Jupiler Pro League matches and to honour all contractual payments to the Pro League until the end of the 2025/26 season. This decision came from Belgian arbitration body Cepani following a dispute which arose in late November, which saw DAZN declare it was terminating its […]
Spain’s defence company Indra has wrapped its agreed purchase of 89.7 per cent of Madrid-based satellite operator Hispasat from Redeia for €725 million, the company confirmed in a filing to the Spanish stock market regulator. The Spanish government has already approved the deal. But almost coincidentally, the business lost a major satellite. Redeia is mainly […]