Channel 4 has confirmed that it has renewed its contract with ITN to supply Channel 4 News until December 2026. The deal ensures that ITN’s Channel 4 News bulletins will remain at the heart of the Channel 4 schedule, delivering on its remit to cover UK and international stories and investigations, to demonstrate innovation and […]
FOX News Digital finished the first quarter 2023 as the top-performing news organisation in the competitive set in both multiplatform minutes and multiplatform views, according to Comscore. This marks eight consecutive quarters as the top news brand with multiplatform minutes and three consecutive quarters as the leader with multiplatform views. FOX News Digital, which went […]
Sinclair is deploying innovative cloud-based news and content gathering and production workflows by combining technologies from Avid, Sony and Marquis Broadcast. This new approach leverages 5G networks to reduce connectivity costs while enriching the flow of news metadata to accelerate the speed of its news operations. Ernie Ensign, AVP News Technology & Operations, Sinclair, explained: […]
Haystack News, the US news streaming service on OTT and CTV platforms, has announced the addition of content from CNN’s news shows to its TV and mobile apps. The new partnership with CNN Worldwide adds news stories from CNN’s top rated shows to the Haystack News TV and mobile apps including Anderson Cooper 360, The […]
Newsbridge, an AI company tackling video searchability, has announced MXT-1, a new generative AI indexing technology. Newsbridge’s core AI indexing tech uses natural language models to generate human-like descriptions of video content. Capable of indexing more than 500 hours of video per minute, MXT-1 seeks to assist organisations working with media and sports content. “With […]
Spanish DTT channel 7NN will cease broadcasting this week following its owner Producciones Audiovisuales Hispania revealing the business is “financially unviable”. Two weeks ago, the channel had decided to pull out of the nationwide DTT market to focus solely on Madrid and made a 50 per cent cut in staff, in an attempt to “reverse […]
Euronews, the European television news network, has announced 198 job cuts – from 478 total – and the selling of its Lyons HQ. The company, which was bought by Portugal’s Alpac Capital in 2021, will redeploy many remaining reporters to their home countries with offices opened in Berlin, Rome, Lisbon, Madrid and London with an […]
CNN is changing transponders on Astra’s long-established 19.2 degrees East orbital slot. CNN International will end up with two options for viewers and which will depend on their satellite receivers. CNN has moved from transponder 28 (Frequency 11626 Vertical) to a new transmission frequency at 11778 Vertical and which will be in DVB-S2 mode. The […]
NewsNation, a Nexstar Media Group property and US cable news network, has announced the launch of all-new NewsNation-branded connected-television apps on a variety of major platforms, including Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire, Android TV and Samsung devices. The free NewsNation apps offer OTT viewers clips and highlights of the latest news from NewsNation and content […]
Data from audience insights platform GWI, reveals that Gen Z has become ‘crisis fatigued’ in their attitude to the world around them. The research from GWI’s Global Gen Z report, reveals that, despite being known as a climate-conscious generation, young Brits interest in environmental issues has dropped by 19 per cent over the past year, […]