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ITV Studios signs non-scripted deal with NBCU, DTC LatAm

ITV Studios has announced a deal with NBCUniversal International Networks & DTC Latin America, which will see Peacock’s streaming original, Love Island USA and Love Island Games (ITV America and GroupM Motion Entertainment) and ITV’s Love Island All Stars (ITV Studios and GroupM Motion Entertainment) land in Latin America for the first time. This ldeal […]

October 23, 2025

UEFA Champions League on DirecTV For Business lineup

DirecTV For Business has reached an agreement with Paramount+ to bring European football to commercial establishments with CBS Sports’ UEFA Champions League. Beginning immediately, all CBS Sports’ UEFA Champions League matches on Paramount+ will now be available through DirecTV For Business and its network of more than 300,000 bars, restaurants, and other commercial establishments across […]

October 23, 2025

BBC World Service, BBC Hausa now on Zeno

Through an extended partnership with Zeno Media, BBC World Service and BBC News Hausa content is now available on Zeno’s global audio platform, Zeno.FM.  Audiences around the world can now access BBC World Service English and BBC News Hausa audio streams on Zeno FM, featuring popular English-language programmes such as The Newsroom, The Documentary and […]

October 23, 2025

Data: Sinners tops horror movie searches on Roku in south US

To mark the launch of Roku’s Stream & Scream Collection, presented by The Hershey Company favorites Reese’s and Kit Kat, Roku has shared data on Halloween viewing across the US. Sinners, the recent box office sensation that is back in IMAX cinemas for Halloween, is currently the most-searched title this Halloween season across eight US […]

October 23, 2025

Nielsen: NFL fuels historic spike in US broadcast viewership

Broadcast viewership came roaring back in September as American football drove an unprecedented monthly spike in watch-time for the category, according to Nielsen’s monthly The Gauge report – a snapshot of total TV and streaming consumption. Time spent watching broadcast programming shot up 20 per cent month-over-month (compared to +3 per cent across all TV) […]

October 22, 2025

WBD: Surprise, surprise… not

To no one’s surprise it has come to this: Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) isn’t working out and something must be done. To no one’s further surprise, no one knows what to do for the best. We have enjoyed reminiscing here before about the worst deal in history that was the takeover of Time Warner by […]

October 22, 2025

Prime Video to stream Black Friday NFL globally

Amazon and the NFL have announced that Prime Video will broadcast the November 28th Black Friday Football game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Chicago Bears to a worldwide audience, kicking off at 8pm GMT. The game will be the first NFL event to be presented globally on Prime Video, which is available in over 240 […]

October 22, 2025

Study: AI misrepresents news content 45% of the time

Research coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC has found that AI assistants – already a daily information gateway for millions of people – routinely misrepresent news content, no matter which language, territory or AI platform is tested. The international study was launched at the EBU News Assembly, in Naples. Involving […]

October 22, 2025

UEFA, ACE team for antipiracy initiative

European football’s governing body UEFA has officially joined the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), the content protection coalition dedicated to combating digital piracy. UEFA becomes the first exclusive sports rights-holder to join ACE, while contributing to a broader industry-wide effort to safeguard the value of creative and sporting content worldwide. UEFA will play an […]

October 22, 2025By Colin Mann

CONMEBOL football joins PPV on Prime Video UK

Prime Video continues to expand its Pay-Per-View (PPV) football offering in the UK with CONMEBOL Libertadores and CONMEBOL Sudamericana matches joining Ligue 1, Bundesliga and UEFA Men’s National Team matches for £2.49 per game with no Prime membership or long-term commitment required. Both legs of the CONMEBOL Libertadores Semi-Finals along with the CONMEBOL Sudamericana Semi-Finals […]

October 22, 2025