Discovery has announced that Patrizio Spagnoletto will join the company as Global Chief Marketing Officer, Discovery Direct-to-Consumer. Spagnoletto will be based in Los Angeles and report to the company’s President and CEO of Discovery International JB Perrette in his role helping to operationalise Discovery’s direct-to-consumer activities. Spagnoletto joins Discovery as the company scales its recently launched subscription streaming […]
The South China Morning Post has reached an exclusive agreement with Discovery Networks Asia Pacific for the broadcast rights for ‘Eat China’. The series will air across 39 territories across APAC and will be available across non-standard TV platforms, including AVOD and SVOD. ‘Eat China’ is produced by Goldthread, SCMP’s video-first culture publication focused on […]
Eurosport’s exclusive live coverage of the Australian Open across its top 11 markets in Europe on its linear channels has seen double-digit uplift in average audience numbers versus 2020 with Eurosport 1 and Eurosport 2 registering a 41 per cent and 28 per cent increase respectively. The coverage has complemented by its digital platforms. Fans […]
At the end of December 2020, there were 390 TV channels, owned by 114 broadcasting groups, that could be received in Italy via the main distribution platforms. The report, published by Confindustria TV, considered all channels distributed on the national DTT multiplexes, the subscription-based satellite platform Sky Italia and FTA DTH service TivùSat. The figures […]
IBC has announced that John Honeycutt will take the IBC Council Chair’s position with immediate effect. Honeycutt has spent the past 30 years in senior positions in the television market, holding C-suite roles at notable broadcasters and TV service providers including Discovery Communications, FOX Cable Networks, Google and Liberty Media. Honeycutt has been an IBC […]
Beyond Rights has closed a number of deals for some of its popular, long-running engineering series, as well as for newer acquisitions in the genre, recently introduced to the market. Series two of Massive Engineering Mistakes (12 x 60), which examines epic fails and builder blunders from construction projects around the globe has been licensed […]
Discovery and social media enterprise Snap have formed a new content and advertising partnership around the Olympic Games to bring the sporting spectacle to a new generation of fans. The collaboration will showcase the best of discovery+ and Eurosport’s Olympic Games content and coverage, shared through a new Eurosport Olympics daily Show on Snapchat’s Discover […]
discovery+, the streaming service from Discovery, is now available on Samsung Smart TVs and Amazon Fire TV devices in the UK & Ireland, following its launch direct-to-consumer and on Sky Q in November 2020. It will also be coming to Roku and Vodafone mobile customers in the UK & Ireland this year and on additional […]
French group Vivendi is reportedly seeking to operate a DTT channel in Spain as part of its plan to strengthen its position in the country’s media market, now that it has become the second largest shareholder in media group Prisa with a 9.9 per cent stake. To this end, Vivendi would have to lease a […]
Norigin Media, the organisers of Northern Waves TV, have announced that the conference will not take place in Oslo in 2021. The TV technology and business conference will instead become a series of online compact conferences in the spring and autumn of 2021. The online event, branded Nordic TV Week was a success in 2020, […]