ProSiebenSat.1 is realigning its production and international distribution business. Following the establishment of two new production companies in Germany over the past twelve months and the sale of Red Arrow Studio’s US production business in the summer of 2022, the Munich-headquartered media group is bundling its eight subsidiaries in Germany, UK, Denmark and Israel and […]
The total turnover of the audio and audiovisual media in Germany is expected to rise slightly by 2.5 per cent in 2022 and exceed €15 billion for the first time (2021: €14.8 billion). The main contributors are subscription and advertising revenues of audio and video streaming services. By contrast, the fallout from the tense overall […]
Sport1 has acquired an extensive rights package for the 2023/2024 to 2026/2027 seasons for exploitation in Germany when the media rights to the FLYERALARM Women’s Bundesliga were awarded by the German Soccer Association (Deutscher Fussball-Bund, DFB). At the core of the package are 22 live matches per season, which SPORT1 will present in primetime on […]
Production is underway for new Sky Original drama, Dostoevsky, produced in-house by Sky Studios, in association with Paco Cinematografica. The six-part series, marks the first TV project from acclaimed Italian directors, screenwriters and brothers, Fabio and Damiano D’Innocenzo, who burst on to the international cinema scene in 2018 with their debut Boys Cry followed by […]
gebrueder beetz filmproduktion and OneGate Media have announced that their true crime series Reeperbahn Special Unit 65 will be the first documentary series to run in the fiction competition of the Hamburg International Film Festival, on October 6th. High-end true crime docuseries Reeperbahn Special Unit 65 tells the story of the fight between Special Unit […]
German distributor Studio Hamburg Enterprises has announced it will operate under the new name of OneGate Media, with Tania Reichert-Facilides as MD. Founded over 60 years ago as a subsidiary of regional public broadcaster NDR (Norddeutscher Rundfunk) OneGate Media is now part of the Studio Hamburg Group. Covering worldwide distribution for TV content, its 70 […]
SPI/FilmBox and M7 Deutschland, a German provider of TV entertainment for cable and IP networks, have announced that as of July 1st, SPI’s adrenaline sports channel Fast&FunBox is distributed to around 160 network operators, such as PŸUR and RFT kabel via cable and IPTV delivery. Fast&FunBox is part of M7’s PayTV bouquet ‘FamilyHD’.“With the addition […]
Rivada Space Networks (RSN) is deploying a global portfolio of 600 low Earth orbiting satellites. The Germany-based business has made a batch of new executive hirings to supervise the tasks ahead. The Rivada constellation uses laser links to create an optical mesh network in space. Combined with Rivada’s patented terrestrial wireless technologies, RSN’s constellation enables […]
Optus Sport continues to expand its football offering after securing the exclusive Australian rights to the DFB-Pokal and DFB-Pokal Frauen for the next three seasons. The DFB-Pokal is held annually by the German Football Association (DFB) and running from August through to June. 64 teams participate in the German Cup, including all clubs from the […]
Stakeholders from the media industry, including broadcasters, device manufacturers, software providers and research companies have announced the start of the ‘German DVB-I Pilot’. The project develops a common understanding of the DVB-I functionality and challenges as well as a standardised future scenario to include the complete DVB-I ecosystem. DVB-I enables an easy access to video […]