Discovery is eyeing a possible tie-up in Europe with Italian broadcaster Mediaset, according to reports in the Italian press. According to Il Sole 24 Ore, contact between Mediaset CEO, Piersilvio Berlusconi, and the main shareholder of Discovery, Liberty Media chairman John Malone, was made last summer. Details of the so-called ‘Amerigo’ project have emerged, which […]
TikTok has said it will separate itself from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, and become an independent entity called TikTok Global – with Oracle and Walmart both taking minority stakes. In a deal that US President Donald Trump gave his blessing to over the weekend, US multi-tech company Oracle would become TikTok’s new cloud provider, […]
Iyare Igiehon and Michelle Matherson have been jointly appointed to the role of BBC Creative Diversity Partner. The new roles will support in the delivery of strategic priorities spearheaded by the BBC’s Director of Creative Diversity, June Sarpong. Igiehon joins on October 19th, while Matherson returned to the BBC on September 14th, having previously worked […]
The rumour mill surrounding the departure of Jim Meyer, CEO at pay-radio operator SiriusXM and the broadcaster’s CFO (David Frear) announced at the same time, has ramped up in earnest. One influential analyst, Jessica Reif Ehrlich from the Bank of America, describes the changes as a “significant shake-up” and says that a move by John […]
TikTok will be banned from US app stores from September 20th, unless a last minute compromise is agreed with president Donald Trump. Owner Bytedance had previously been given a September 15th deadline to find a buyer for its US operations. The Department of Commerce said it would bar people in the US from downloading the […]
The European Commission is taking further steps in the Digital Decade agenda to strengthen Europe’s digital sovereignty, as announced by President Ursula von der Leyen in her State of the Union address on September 16th. The Commission has published a Recommendation calling Member States to boost investment in very high-capacity broadband connectivity infrastructure, including 5G, […]
Qatar-based news broadcaster Al Jazeera has been obliged to register its online digital news service AJ+ as a “foreign agent” by the US Department of Justice (DoJ). It means that AJ+ is now subject to the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). The DoJ, in a letter to the Al Jazeera Media Network, alleges the broadcaster […]
Broadcast and transmission facilities company Arqiva is auctioning surplus equipment of more than 500 lots of media and broadcasting kit on October on 22nd and 23rd. The auctioneer handling the sale is Peaker Pattinson Auctioneers. The auction will be held at Arqiva’s Narcot Lane, Chalfont St Peter, Gerrards Cross, UK site. Arqiva says the sale […]
A study carried out by rights licensing body PRS for Music has found that overall usage of stream-ripping services dramatically increased by 1390 per cent between 2016 and 2019, overshadowing all other illegal online music activity in the UK. Online rights monitoring company INCOPRO was commissioned by PRS for Music to produce Stream-ripping: its role […]
The US’s National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center), the Motion Picture Association (MPA) and the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), the US Chamber of Commerce’s Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC) as well as industry marketing organisation CTAM, have formed a multi-layered partnership designed to strengthen innovation and collaboration within the organisations’ collective […]