Research from Ampere Analysis shows that major studios and streaming platforms are accelerating their push into video game adaptations, with commissions increasing by an average of 30 per cent per year since 2019. While Hollywood’s most prominent players have already secured many of the most recognisable franchises, Ampere’s analysis finds that several high-potential game IPs […]
Sky Sports reports that it drew a record audience for the 2025/26 World Darts Championship, with total viewing up 13 per cent year-on-year across the tournament. Viewing was up over 100 per cent compared to four years ago on Sky Sports – the last pre-Luke Littler tournament, highlighting the impact of the teenage sensation on […]
Comcast has announced the completion of its previously announced separation of Versant Media Group into a separate public company, effective as of January 2nd. Versant will commence regular-way trading today [January 5th] on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol VSNT. Comcast shareholders received one share of Versant Class A common stock or Versant Class B common stock […]
Traditional TV continues to hold the dominant position in Spain’s audiovisual landscape in 2025, despite the steady growth of hybrid and convergent consumption. This is one of the main conclusions of Barlovento Comunicación Annual Report 2025, based on data from Kantar. According to the report, traditional television reached 46.8 million unique viewers during the year […]
Sport streaming platform DAZN has been ordered to continue broadcasting Jupiler Pro League matches and to honour all contractual payments to the Pro League until the end of the 2025/26 season. This decision came from Belgian arbitration body Cepani following a dispute which arose in late November, which saw DAZN declare it was terminating its […]
Spain’s defence company Indra has wrapped its agreed purchase of 89.7 per cent of Madrid-based satellite operator Hispasat from Redeia for €725 million, the company confirmed in a filing to the Spanish stock market regulator. The Spanish government has already approved the deal. But almost coincidentally, the business lost a major satellite. Redeia is mainly […]
Canal+ and Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) have signed a new multi-year and multi-territory agreement. This expanded agreement covers both the distribution of HBO Max and the renewal of several WBD thematic channels across numerous regions in Africa and Europe. It builds on the agreements concluded in France in 2024 including the renewal of the exclusive […]
During 2025, SpaceX’s Starlink broadband-by-satellite system achieved 4.6 million new customers, added more than 20 million Cruise line passengers, and served more than 21 million airline passengers. Indeed, Starlink is adding new customers at a rate of some 22,222 per day. These additions have boosted Starlink’s total customer base to more than 9.2 million up […]
The Asia Video Industry Association’s Coalition Against Piracy (CAP) has confirmed that a new site-blocking order has been granted by the Singapore High Court, targeting 22 major piracy website brands (covering 53 domains in total) facilitating illegal streaming and downloads of video content in Singapore. This latest order – obtained by BBC Studios, the Premier […]
DigitalBridge Group, a global alternative asset manager dedicated to investing in digital infrastructure, and Crestview Partners, a private equity firm, have confirmed that affiliated investment funds have completed their previously announced take-private acquisition of WideOpenWest, Inc. (WOW!), a provider of fibre-broadband Internet services and advanced connectivity solutions in the United States. “We are excited to […]
Samsung Electronics has unveiled what it says is “the world’s first 130-inch Micro RGB TV” at CES 2026, marking the debut of its largest Micro RGB display and a new design direction for ultra-premium displays. “Micro RGB represents the peak of our picture quality innovation, and the new 130-inch model takes that vision even further,” […]
The SpaceRISE consortium which is building Europe’s ‘next generation’ of highly-secure satellites, has started the process of procuring its new fleet. SpaceRISE issued its Requests for Proposals’ on December 29th 2025 to industry suppliers for 272 low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites and associated launch services. The consortium comprises Eutelsat, SES and Hispasat. The current procurement […]
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 […]