Warner Bros Discovery has named its international executive team, headed by Gerhard Zeiler. WarnerMedia’s former EMEA and Asia president Priya Dogra (pictured) will become president & MD for EMEA (excluding Poland), overseeing all Warner Bros Discovery operations in the region from her London base. She will be responsible for integrating and operating the International divisions […]

Canadian multiplay telco TELUS has introduced Stream+, claiming it to be the first and only premium streaming bundle in Canada. Stream+ combines Netflix Premium plan, Apple TV+, and discovery+ on one single bill for C$25 (€18.36) per month, and is available to new and existing TELUS Mobility customers. With Stream+, customers can enjoy their favourite […]

The number of UK households that subscribe to at least one video streaming service fell as the cost-of-living crisis led some UK households (particularly younger households) to deprioritise entertainment, according to Kantar’s Entertainment on Demand study. Some 16.9 million or 58 per cent of households now have at least one paid subscription, down 215,000, quarter-on-quarter. […]

Beyond Rights has closed two pan-territory deals in Latin America – one with NBCUniversal, the other with Discovery. NBCUniversal Latin America has acquired 129 hours of true crime content, featuring the titles Confessions of a Serial Killer, Murder Made Me Famous, Fatal Vows and Inside Crime. The Discovery Latin America package totals 93 hours with […]

The five largest US content commissioners have increased the proportion of their original slates premiering online, according to research firm Ampere Analysis. In the US, Discovery, Disney, WarnerMedia and Comcast have all coalesced at between 40 per cent to 50 per cent of Original first-run TV Titles commissioned in 2021 going to SVoD. This change […]

Discovery and AT&T have closed their transaction to combine the WarnerMedia business with Discovery. The new entity, Warner Bros Discovery, will begin trading on the Nasdaq with the start of trading on April 11th, under the new ticker symbol ‘WBD’. Warner Bros Discovery will create and distribute the world’s most differentiated and complete portfolio of […]

ANGA COM has released an interactive floor plan, the complete conference programme and an extended exhibitor list for 2022. The exhibitor list offers search and filter functions as well as extended information about the exhibitors and their location in the two exhibition halls. This enables an optimal preparation of the show visit. The exhibition space […]

Discovery has announced the future executive leadership team for Warner Bros Discovery, ahead of the close of the company’s transaction to combine its non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses with WarnerMedia’s premium entertainment, sports and news assets. David Zaslav, the future CEO of Warner Bros Discovery, commented: “We are so excited to bring the […]

ITV has announced that David Coughtrie has been appointed Director of Distribution Partnerships (Pay TV), and Managing Director of SDN, which is the multiplex operator owned by ITV, which operates one of the national multiplex licences in the UK on Freeview. Reporting to Group Strategic Partnerships and Distribution Director Martin Goswami, Coughtrie will lead on […]

Discovery has announced that a selection of its streaming TV everywhere (TVE) GO apps are now available on Comcast’s XClass TV and Xfinity Flex in the US, providing more customers with direct and easy access to HGTV GO, TLC GO, Food Network GO, Discovery GO and ID GO. To access Discovery’s TVE GO apps on […]