ViacomCBS has reportedly agreed for the Apple TV+ streaming service to bundle both CBS All Access and Showtime for an additional $9.99, on top of the usual $4.99 monthly charge. The service will offer subscribers in the US a selection of content from ViacomCBS brands including CBS, MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, its Paramount film studio […]
Virgin Media abruptly halted eir Sport’s broadcast of its Champions quarter-final between Atletico Madrid vs RB Leipzig on August 13th. Virgin Media, which owns the rights to show Champions League games on Irish television, tweeted: “We have suspended our supply of Virgin Media Sport and Virgin Media Sport Extra to eir Sport because eir has […]
AT&T is looking to sell Crunchyroll, its anime streaming service, for between $1 billion and $1.5 billion according to reports, in an attempt to raise funds to pay down debt. Sony Pictures Entertainment has been touted as a potential buyer, and is said to have already been pitched the service. Crunchyroll recently announced that it […]
HBO Max, the US SVoD service, has announced that the upcoming seasons of The Other Two and South Side from Comedy Central Productions are joining the streaming platform as new Max Original series. The first seasons of The Other Two and South Side will land on the platform in 2021 followed by brand new seasons to stream exclusively as Max Original […]
fuboTV, the US sports-focused OTT service, has reported Q2 revenues of $44.2 million (€37.4m), a 53 per cent increase year-over-year on a pro forma basis. Growth was driven by a rise in subscribers, an increase in Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) and growth of advertising sales. Subscription revenue increased 51 per cent year-over-year to $39.5 […]
DAZN has confirmed that the August 22nd boxing event headlined by the heavyweight fight between Dillian Whyte and Alexander Povetkin will stream exclusively on DAZN in all nine of its markets; Austria, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the US. Since coming up short in his first title attempt in 2015 against fellow […]
Amazon Prime Video has announced Welcome to the Blumhouse, a programme of eight unsettling, genre movies produced by Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Television and Amazon Studios. Sharing the suspense that’s a Blumhouse signature, each film presents a distinctive vision and unique perspective on common themes centred around family and love as redemptive or destructive forces. This […]
The top 10 service providers in the US collectively lost 1.52 million television subscribers in the second quarter of 2020, according to the informitv Multiscreen Index. Eight of the top 10 service providers in the US that report figures lost
RTL Group’s turnover fell significantly in the first half of 2020, dropping 16.4 per cent to €2.7 billion. Advertising revenue has suffered in particular, dropping by 40 per cent from April to June. The bottom line is a profit of €156 million for the first six months of 2020, down €287 millionon the previous year. […]
Deutsche Telekom’s (DT) domestic German TV base grew significantly and boosted group revenue during lockdown, helped in particular by new and exclusive content on the Megathek on-demand offering. DT had 3.724 million TV subscribers in Germany at the end of Q2, up 1.3 per cent quarter-on-quarter and 7.1 per cent year-on-year. Some 106,000 TV users […]