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Blue Ant Media acquires MagellanTV

Blue Ant Media, the streamer, production studio and rights-management business, has acquired MagellanTV, a digital streaming company that delivers factual content to consumers across the globe, for $12 million (€10.2bn). Founded in 2018 by Greg Diefenbach and Thomas Lucas, veterans of National Geographic, PBS and Discovery, MagellanTV operates an SVoD service and a portfolio of […]

October 2, 2025

Struum finalises Series A financing

Struum, the SVoD service created by senior-level Disney and Discovery executives, and backed by an initial multi-million-dollar investment from former Disney CEO Michael Eisner through his Tornante Company, has finalised its Series A funding round led by Canadian-based media and content company Corus Entertainment. The $7 million (€6.4m) round also includes Gaingels, the leading investment […]

November 10, 2021

DistroTV now home to 150+ channels

AVoD service DistroTV is now home to more than 150 live streaming channels, which it says marks the network’s emergence as the largest, independent, free, ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) platform on the market. DistroTV operates under parent company DistroScale and caters its growing, multicultural content line-up to a diverse range of viewers in the UK, […]

January 27, 2021