DAZN losses fell to $936 million (€804.5m) in 2024, down from $1.4 billion the year before. The sports streaming platform posted saw revenues increase by $323 million to $3.2 billion in 2024. CEO Shay Segev told the FT that the group was on course to be profitable for the first time in 2026 and had […]
Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) has announced the appointment of Sky Media as its ad sales partner in the UK & Ireland in a multi-year agreement. Under the new deal, Sky Media will represent WBD’s linear television entertainment and sport brands in the UK and Ireland from January 2026. As the fifth largest commercial broadcaster in […]
In a fireside chat at FICCI Frames 2025, India’s media and entertainment conclave, Prime Video India’s senior leadership delved into the growing global popularity of Indian content, and the service’s plans to deepen its engagement with customers even further in India and beyond. Themed Made in India: I-Dramas — Are Our Stories Ready to Travel […]
Vevo, the music video network, has released its report Fandom = Cultural Currency, which explores how the passion of music fandom turns into impact and purchasing power. Sourced through the annual Vevo Media Tracker (along with Vevo’s own viewership data and internal analytics), the report surveyed more than 6,000 fans in the UK, the US […]
The Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) group has distributed £42 million (€48.4m) to clubs, the highest figure in the league’s history, its latest published annual accounts confirm. The accounts reveal total group distributions are up £4.1 million (11 per cent) to £42 million from last year’s £37.9 million. SPFL group income totalled £50.4 million, breaking […]
Telecom networks are the invisible backbone of Europe’s digital society. They power daily communications, online banking and commerce, enable critical sectors like healthcare, energy and transport, and guarantee that emergency services remain accessible at all times. Without them, Europe’s economy, public services and democratic life would grind to a halt. Protecting these vital infrastructures is […]
Ookla has analysed country-level train Wi-Fi performance across Europe and Asia, using Speedtest Intelligence. Europe and Asia’s rail networks, long heralded as a backbone of economic competitiveness, are now judged not only on punctuality and comfort but on the quality of the digital experience onboard. High-quality train Wi-Fi has shifted from nice-to-have to essential rail […]
FCC chairman Brendan Carr is not everyone’s favourite legislator, but his latest proposal looks like winning favourable support from the industry. He wants to create a ‘Space Assembly Line’ in order to ‘fast track’ applications and to demolish barriers to entry for the space and satellite sector. However, good as this idea is, he also […]
Elon Musk’s Starlink service is offering some major concessions to South Africa in an attempt to get permission to launch services in the country. Starlink has itemised significant investment promises for the government. Ryan Goodnight, senior director in charge of market access at Starlink has reportedly raised a few key points at the AGM of […]
Deutsche Telekom has announced a sub-licensing deal with German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF that will bring all 104 matches of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, as well as all 51 matches of the UEFA Euro 2028 in the UK and Ireland, to MagentaTV. ARD and ZDF will each broadcast 30 matches on free TV […]
Tim Carter, MD Unscripted UK, ITV Studios has named Emma Gormley as the new Managing Director of MultiStory Media in a move which strategically aligns ITV Studios Daytime and MultiStory Media within one scaled label. Under Gormley’s leadership, the ITV Studios Daytime and MultiStory Media teams will be brought together under the expanded MultiStory Media […]
First, the good news: AST SpaceMobile has opened an $800 million ‘At The Market’ offering of new shares to a cluster of banks. The money is now available as needed by AST and if fully drawn down is equal to about 3 per cent of the shares issued. It means that AST is sitting on […]
There’s no moral in this story because, of course, it is about television. For as long as it has been around there have been moral panics about TV, as in ‘does what it puts on screen erode the moral fibre of a nation?’ As the word panic implies, the answer is, generally, no. Nowadays even […]