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 […]
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. […]
VIZIO has announced that Fox Corporation’s FOX NOW and FOX Nation apps are available on VIZIO’s SmartCast platform. Now millions of viewers across the US have access to FOX’s local and national news, entertainment programming, and sports content directly on their VIZIO SmartCast TVs. “We are pleased that millions of VIZIO SmartCast users can now […]
Fox News is cancelling the long-running Lou Dobbs Tonight show forthwith, according to the LA Times. Dobbs was an early and avid Trumper and has carried on falsely claiming the 2020 election was rigged. Fox News now faces a $2.7 billion defamation suit from voting technology company Smartmatic. “As we said in October, Fox News […]
Smartmatic has filed a $2.7 billion defamation suit against Fox News owner Fox Corp, alleging Fox conducted a disinformation campaign against the election technology company. Smartmatic cited Fox news reports it said had repeated false claims that Smartmatic had “fixed and rigged” the 2020 election. “The Earth is round. Two plus two equals four. Joe […]
YouLook, a new AVoD service, is now live in a beta release to customers in the UK and Ireland. As part of the extended beta programme, which began December 31st 2020, the service will be available on iOS, Android and Amazon Firestick platforms in the next month. YouLook currently offers a range of classic movies, […]
Disney has announced the full slate of content that will be available at launch on Star – the sixth brand to launch on Disney+, joining the line-up that already includes Marvel, Pixar, Star Wars, National Geographic and Disney. Previously Disney had revealed just a handful of titles for Star, including original series Big Sky, but […]
James Murdoch has told the FT that US news channels promote “toxic politics” threatening US democracy. He said proprietors are as culpable as politicians who “know the truth but choose instead to propagate lies”. While he doesn’t name his father Rupert, who founded Fox News, or Lachlan, the brother who runs it, there is zero […]
James Murdoch is reuniting with Uday Shankar, who helped build Star, for a new media venture in India. The project brings back together one of India’s most successful media partnerships with the aim of building a “large-scale” business in the areas of digital media, education and healthcare delivery. Murdoch told the Financial Times it would […]
FOX News Digital closed out November 2020 with a record month in multiplatform views (over 2.7 billion) and multiplatform minutes (over 5 billion), its highest month in history across both categories. The digital network hit a new milestone surpassing over 5 billion multiplatform minutes for the first time ever and continued its streak of now […]