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Denmark: Discovery signs Olympics deals with DR & TV 2

Discovery has announced a broadcast partnership which will see it sublicense to DR and TV 2 the free-to-air audio-visual rights and digital rights for Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 and Olympic Games Paris 2024. Discovery will retain digital rights for all Olympic Games through to Paris 2024 in Denmark, making Dplay the only destination to […]

November 27, 2020

Food Network Kitchen announces Just Ask the Baker series on Tastemade

Food Network Kitchen, the cooking ecosystem featuring interactive live and on-demand classes, announces the launch of Just Ask the Baker, a new series from Tastemade, a modern media company that creates award-winning original programming in the categories of Food, Travel, and Home & Design. Hosted by actor, author, comedian, and entrepreneur, Meghan Rienks, Just Ask the Baker is the first […]

November 17, 2020

Poland: PURE ETCR signs FTA deal with Metro TV

Motorsport fans in Poland will be able to watch live, free-to-air coverage of all PURE ETCR events in 2021 thanks to a new broadcast agreement with Metro TV. PURE ETCR, the world’s first all-electric, multi-brand touring car championship, staged its Grand Reveal in October in Copenhagen and announced that its first full season in 2021 […]

November 16, 2020

Italy sees highest TV audience in 5 years

Italy registered the highest TV audience ratings in the past five years in October 2020, a trend that continued into the first week of November. Data published by Studio Frasi shows that the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic has once again increased TV consumption throughout the country. In the week November 1st to 7th, […]

November 12, 2020From Branislav Pekic in Rome

discovery+ live in UK & Ireland

Audiences in the UK and Ireland can now stream content from the discovery+ web and app – featuring new, exclusive discovery+ Originals from the global multi-channel player. News of the rebranded service was unveiled last month. Customers can now enjoy unlimited access to content from Discovery UK’s seven pay-TV and six free-to-air brands as well […]

November 12, 2020

Discovery pivots to D2C, slams T-Mobile

David Zaslav says Discovery’s international streaming service will be fully unveiled in December. The Discovery CEO says the service will be “differentiated” from others such as Netflix and Amazon Prime, with originals, local sport and news content among the plans. Zaslav told investors the streamer’s offering had now “come into clear focus […] We have […]

November 6, 2020

Discovery Q3 recovery

Discovery has reported its financial results for the quarter ended September 30th 2020. David Zaslav, President and Chief Executive Officer of Discovery, said: “Discovery delivered improving financial results in the third quarter, a testament to the powerful appeal of our content and brands, led in the US by TLC, which beat top-rated sports and news […]

November 5, 2020

RAI maintains TV audience leadership in Italy

Italian public broadcaster RAI remained the most country’s watched broadcaster in June 2020, with a 34 per cent daily average audience share, despite a 0.8 per cent drop on the same month in 2019. According to data published by Italy’s Communications Authority (AgCom), second placed Mediaset, with 3.2 million viewers on an average day reached […]

October 21, 2020From Branislav Pekic in Rome

Discovery UK unveils discovery+

Discovery UK has announced that dplay is being rebranded to discovery+ in the UK & Ireland next month alongside the launch of a subscription tier. The streaming service will aggregate Discovery UK’s pay-TV and free-to-air brands, creating the “ultimate destination” for factual, lifestyle and reality content. It will be available directly to all consumers in […]

October 20, 2020

Five groups account for 65% of Italian TV offer

The five largest broadcasting groups present on the Italian market account for 216 TV channels out of 399, or 65 per cent of the total. Sky Italia is the biggest broadcaster in the terms of the number of channels (111), followed by Mediaset (38), Rai (27), Discovery Italia (24) and Fox Italia-Disney (16), according a […]

October 12, 2020From Branislav Pekic in Rome