Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) – the parent company of the likes of HBO, CNN, DC Studios, Eurosport, TNT Sports, Cartoon Network and the Harry Potter franchise – is considering putting the entire company up for sale. The company could also potentially split up Warner Bros and Discovery, and sell off Discovery while merging Warner Bros […]
Airbus, Leonardo and Thales have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to create a leading European player in space. This new giant organisation was much expected by the industry and brings together Europe’s three largest space-related businesses. A statement from the trio says: “[This] new European space player aims to unite and enhance capabilities by combining […]
Two would-be Direct-to-Device (D2D) satellite players are to merge, with the backing of giant operator SES. SES was already a major investor in Lynk Global and had a stake in Omnispace. The new announcement says: “Following the merger, SES will become a major strategic shareholder, facilitating a robust deployment of D2D and IoT services for […]
Research from the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) reveals that almost all parents (98 per cent) check age ratings when selecting films or TV shows for their children to watch on streaming services. In a survey of 2,000 parents of 3-16 year olds in the UK who subscribe to at least one streaming service, […]
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 […]
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) […]
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 […]
Netflix was off seven per cent in premarket on October 22nd as the streamer’s outlook for the coming quarter left investors underwhelmed. A victim of its own success, investors have become accustomed to routine outperformance of predictions, and the stock has bumped over 360 per cent in the past three years. But since peaking this […]
Eutelsat’s Q1 numbers (it has a trading year that ends on June 30th) shows overall revenues down by 2.2 per cent YoY at €293 million. The division with the largest fall in revenue is Video, and which still accounts for 47 per cent of revenues, and where its DTH revenues amounted to €134 million, down […]
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 […]
French telco Free has announced the launch of Free TV (formerly OQEE), a subscription and commitment-free streaming offering accessible to all users. The dedicated app allows to watch TV from a smartphone, a tablet or a smart TV. Free TV offers more than 170 channels, including 16 DTT networks (but notably not TF1 or M6 […]
NASA’s Acting Administrator Sean Duffy sys that SpaceX’s Moon Lander programme is running late. He praised the Elon Musk business but admitted that SpaceX is behind on the schedule. Duffy said that NASA would reopen the contract to other bidders. “The President wants to make sure we beat the Chinese — he wants to get […]
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 […]