SendtoNews Video (STN), the independent online video platform, has announced that digital video content from ITN, the UK-based television production company, is now available to STN’s 1,800 publishers within North America. ITN will be supplying STN with up to 200 videos per month covering global news, entertainment videos and royal family news. “Providing quality digital […]
Three BBC dramas – Normal People, Small Axe and I May Destroy You – lead the nominations for this year’s Broadcasting Press Guild TV and Streaming Awards, alongside two ITV dramas, Des and Quiz. Normal People is shortlisted as Best Drama Series (5+ episodes), and its stars Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal are nominated as […]
Channel 4 has announced a new sponsorship deal with Citroën that will see the French automobile manufacturer becomes UKTV’s Dave channel partner. The new two-year channel partnership launching on February 15th involves primetime programme sponsorship on UKTV’s Dave channel, a series of 10 second idents that will run every day, as well as brand licensing […]
UK public service broadcasters the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 plan to integrate Digital UK – the joint venture which facilitates the provision of Freeview TV services and Freesat – which offers access to the UK’s subscription-free satellite television service. They say the integration of Digital UK and Freesat will help ensure viewers continue to […]
Puma Private Equity has completed a £2 million investment into Ostmodern, a digital product design and technology business that creates innovative video platforms for some of the world’s leading entertainment companies, including Formula One, Arsenal, Channel 4 and Fox. Ostmodern has been at the forefront of innovation in digital product development for over 10 years. […]
London and LA based production company Lightbox is to exit Channel 4’s Indie Growth Fund (IGF). Lightbox was one of the first companies to join Channel 4’s IGF when it launched in 2014, and has now jointly agreed with Channel 4 to buy back its shares for an undisclosed amount. Channel 4 says the decision […]
Sky News will become one of the founding members of the newly launched albert news consortium, a group which has been set up to support the broadcast and production community specifically engaged in news television. The news consortium will work alongside the BAFTA albert consortium – now in its 10th year – and the albert […]
Sky has hired Hayley Reynolds in the role of Commissioning Editor and Janine Thomas as Assistant Commissioning Editor in the newly formed Documentaries and Factual commissioning team. They will both start in their positions in the next month. In their new roles, Reynolds and Thomas will support Poppy Dixon, Director of Documentaries and Factual Commissioning, […]
Channel 4 has acquired the rights to show England’s Test cricket series in India in a deal that means Test cricket will return to free-to-air television in the UK for the first time in over 15 years. Global rights holders Star Sports, owned by Disney, and Channel 4 have agreed a contract for the live […]
All 4 achieved its biggest ever month of streaming in January 2021 with almost double the number of views compared to the same month last year (+91 per cent) thanks to the success of new drama It’s A Sin. The series has already had 6.5 million views on All 4, making it the streaming services’ […]