The FCC ‘has engaged’ with executives at Paramount in order to discuss what will help win approval for its proposed deal to merge with Skydance Media. Conversations between FCC officials and Paramount executives involve the media company’s diversity and equity initiatives (DEI), according to the WSJ. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has openly criticised DEI, recently […]
Charter Communications, the US telco and mass media company, has reported that it slowed losses of pay-TV customers in Q1. The company, led by president and CEO Chris Winfrey, shed another 167,000 residential video customers during the quarter, compared to a year-earlier decline of 392,000. Charter had 12.7 million pay TV subscribers at the end […]
BBC Sport and London Marathon Events have anoounced new deal, extending their long-standing partnership to 2030 – a deal that will include live coverage of the 50th London Marathon. This partnership, spanning over five decades, is one of the longest-standing broadcast agreements in British sport. Over the years, the London Marathon has seen more than […]
Mediaset España and Prime Video have reached an agreement to add Mediaset’s OTT platform, Mitele Plus, to the Prime Video service in Spain as an additional suscription. Mitele Plus is now available within Prime Video at €7.99 a month with a promotional seven days free trial. Prime customers who subscribe to Mitele Plus will have […]
Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) consumers are driving major shifts in digital commerce, sports engagement, and beauty trends, according to a Nielsen report titled Breakthrough ROI: Investing in Asian American audiences and media. AANHPI adults are more digitally connected, spending nine hours and six minutes a week logged on to their computers, […]
Netflix is introducing a new subtitles option: original language that shows only the spoken dialogue. Until now, if viewers wanted subtitles in the original language, they’d turn on ‘Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (SDH/CC)’, which includes not only dialogue but also audio cues such as [phone buzzing] or [dramatic music swells], as […]
Giant screen specialist IMAX enjoyed its highest-grossing Q1 ever at the global box office with $298 million (€262.5m) on the strength of a record-breaking Chinese New Year holiday, which delivered triple the company’s previous best with $182 million. The movie Ne Zha 2 has earned more than $164 million on IMAX screnes, the company’s highest-grossing […]
Curiosity, a specialist in factual entertainment, has announced the launch of its flagship streaming service, Curiosity Stream, on Prime Video as an add-on subscription channel in Finland, The Netherlands, and Sweden. Like viewers in the US, UK, and India, viewers in these new European markets can now enjoy Curiosity Stream’s collection of documentaries and series […]
Content protection trade body the Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Alliance (AAPA) has made significant changes within its leadership team following recent elections. Stepping into the role of Co-President is Cameron Andrews, Legal Director for Anti-Piracy at beIN Media Group (pictured). Andrews brings a wealth of expertise and a commitment to protecting audiovisual content. His leadership is anticipated […]
Programmatic media partner, MiQ, has announced the appointment of Marion Hargett as US Chief Revenue Officer. Joining from her most recent post as Vice President of Business Development for The Trade Desk, she brings with her 20+ years of transformative experience across programmatic, advanced TV,and digital media. In her new role, Hargett will enable data-driven […]
The Canadian Premier League (CPL) has launched a new-look website and app, offering supporters of Canada’s men’s domestic professional football league an endhanced digital experience. The League and club websites, as well as the Centre Circle app, have all undergone major upgrades, including a new design with a more intuitive, user-friendly interface. The CPL’s revamped […]
AST SpaceMobile (AST) activated one of its first BlueBird satellites over Japan in order to make a video call with staff from cellular telco Rakuten, its partner operator in Japan. Abel Avellan, CEO at AST, commented: “Another historic first! We completed our initial activation of our first BlueBird satellites in Japan with Rakuten Mobile to […]
Everything is all about AI. Even a lot of TV and film dramas feature it somewhere in the plot. But they will be in trouble if they have actually used it in production; see the fall from grace of The Brutalist, the Oscar favourite until it was found to have used an AI app to […]