Disney+ has announced a one-year deal with The Overlap as the headline sponsor of both its popular original show Stick to Football and new original format Stick to United with Wayne Rooney covering the upcoming 2026/2027 football season. Stick to Football, hosted by Gary Neville, Jamie Carragher, Jill Scott, Ian Wright and Roy Keane, features […]
Spain’s top-flight women’s football competition, Liga F, has failed to award its domestic TV rights after bids submitted in the first round fell short of the €7 million-a-season reserve price. Liga F has consequently launched a second round of bidding for its audiovisual rights for the 2026/27 season and beyond, with interested broadcasters and platforms […]
Virgin Media O2 has added Tennis Channel to its streaming TV line-up at no extra cost. Available to Virgin TV customers directly via their set-top box on channel 542, the new channel offers viewers 24/7 access to a range of tennis content and competitions – including the Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup, as […]
Total retail and wholesale fixed broadband connections reached an estimated 29.37 million at the end of Q2 2026, up just 1,000 quarter-on-quarter from 29.36 million and marking the flattest headline quarter in Point Topic’s recent tracking. Consumer segments accounted for approximately 27.06 million connections, down 9,310 in the quarter, while retail business connections rose to […]
A formal filing from SpaceX says that the Elon Musk-owned rocket company will attempt to return its Starship test flight #14 to its launch pad in South Texas, and to catch both the rocket’s main stage and booster with the launch tower’s ‘chopsticks’. The details come from a public application SpaceX filed with the FCC, […]
Despite having access to more campaign data than ever before, 80 per cent of marketers admit they do not fully understand why their advertising campaigns succeed or fail, according to polling by Brand Lift measurement company On Device. The research, conducted among over 250 advertising professionals, points to a growing confidence gap in campaign measurement. […]
Warner Bros Discovery Access (WBD Access), the development programme connecting new and emerging talent to WBD, has announced the three episodes selected as part of its new Production Incubator programme in collaboration with Food Network and discovery+ in the UK. Following a competitive application process, three UK production companies: Project Must Entertainment, 7FIFTY and Double […]
IBC has announced that its International Honour for Excellence (IHFE), will be presented to Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS), recognising the company’s decades of innovation in live sports production and its far-reaching impact on the global broadcast industry. For decades, OBS has set the benchmark for innovation in live sports production, consistently pushing the boundaries of […]
Cineverse, an entertainment technology company and studio, has announced the launch of VAUDIO. A new proprietary ad tech offering now available through Cineverse’s ad solutions group, VAUDIO takes an advertiser’s existing podcast, radio or streaming-audio commercial, adds the visuals required for television, and can activate the campaign across connected TV (CTV) inventory without requiring a […]
Google has announced the addition of an on-demand library its Google TV Freeplay service – giving users access to more than 10,000 movies and shows with no subscription required. The service, which is only available in the US, previously only offered a selection of FAST channels. The on-demand library features titles from top studios such […]
Crunchyroll, the anime SVoD service, has announced a collaboration with Appning by Forvia, an automotive apps distribution platform, which will allow users to stream Crunchyroll content in select vehicles starting with BMW and Mini, and expanding across BMW Group, to over 40 automotive brands. Through Appning, Crunchyroll will be available directly within connected car environments […]
A report from investment bank Clear Street says that AST SpaceMobile is going to be a cash-flow machine over the next 10 years as revenues ramp up to impressive levels. The bank says that by 2034, AST could be reporting annual revenues of $7 billion (€6.07bn) and enjoying a gross profit margin of 73 per […]
There’s a lot of panic in the air about AI just now, even President DJT seems to be rethinking the need for some regulation. The trouble is that some experimental agents have gone off and, unasked, tried to hack other’s systems. In truth, the main issue seems to be the ‘move fast and break things’ […]