Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) has announced that its Board of Directors has unanimously rejected Paramount Skydance’s $108 billion+ takeover bid. Paramount had attempted to gatecrash Netflix’s acquisition of WBD with an offer of $30 a share, declaring that it was “superior” to the streaming giant’s $72 billion deal initially struck with WBD. “Following a careful […]
Canal+ has given itself the (seemingly wide) target of 50 to 100 million subscribers by 2030, as the MultiChoice acquisition which closed earlier this year alters its dimension and strategic priorities. Talking to Le Figaro before its The Originals+ content showcase on December 18th in Paris, Canal+ group CEO Maxime Saada said he considers the […]
November 2025 delivered what Nielsen has described as “one of the most historic months to date” in its report of The Gauge, the monthly snapshot of total TV and streaming consumption in the US. The five-week reporting interval produced a 5.5 per cent monthly increase in television usage, with live sports driving broadcast to its […]
The EW Scripps Company board of directors has unanimously decided to reject the unsolicited acquisition proposal submitted by Sinclair in November, to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Scripps that it does not already own. The Scripps board said that “following a careful review and evaluation in consultation with its financial and legal advisors”, […]
The Portuguese pay-TV market ended Q3 2025 with 4.7 million subscribers, a 0.7 per cent increase year-over-year. This represents the lowest annual growth since 2006, according to quarterly data from the National Communications Authority (Anacom). The overwhelming majority (98.3 per cent) of pay-TV subscribers opt for the service as part of a bundle. Fibre optics […]
Gracenote, the content data business unit of Nielsen, is helping TV providers sustain engagement between viewers and a universe of sports programming extending beyond live games. New enhancements to the Gracenote On Sports solution covering 160+ popular sports leagues – including the NFL, NBA, Premier League and Formula 1 – and competitions in 50+ countries […]
Parks Associates has announced the release of its Subscription Video Forecast: 2025–2030 report, offering an outlook on the future of the US TV and streaming video market. The report projects steady but moderate growth across subscription video services, with total TV and video subscriptions climbing from 719 million in 2025 to 765 million by 2030. […]
Virgin Media O2 has released its 2025 Year in Review, revealing record levels of data consumption in the UK, including an 8 per cent rise in broadband usage and an 18 per cent rise in mobile traffic. Data analysis by the operator reveals this is partly driven by growing customer use of AI, alongside […]
Ideal Broadcasting India, one of India’s leading broadcast systems integrators, has successfully completed a project to relocate, design and build a state-of-the-art broadcast and newsroom facility for Collective Newsroom at the Max House complex in New Delhi. This landmark project marks a significant upgrade in the region’s media infrastructure, integrating cutting-edge newsroom technologies, IP-based connectivity, […]
People streaming movies, TV shows and sporting fixtures illegally over the festive period could be unknowingly gifting fraudsters access to their personal finances, warns a cyber security expert. The alert comes following new BeStreamWise research, a cross-industry initiative which aims to raise awareness of the dangers of illegal streaming. The research reveals that 38 per […]
Ookla has analysed mobile connectivity across local authorities in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and presented data based on its Speedtest Intelligence data from 2024 Q1 to Q3 2024 and 2025 Q1 to Q3 UK-wide median mobile download speed rose 15 per cent year-on-year to 63.03 Mbps in 2025 while upload speeds improved from […]
There has been some confusion, not to say argument, as to whether AST SpaceMobile will manage to connect to users when inside a home, office building or while out shopping and inside stores. AST has partnerships with dozens of cellular telcos but the whole rationale for AST is to provide connectivity when out of range […]
You don’t have to be as old as me to remember the dotcom crash of March 2000. But, by the same token, there are plenty of senior executives and fund managers around who would have been children at the time. Are their perceptions of the inevitability of AI’s success, their assumption that we are all […]