NewsPlayer+, the global subscription streaming news platform, has announced a new partnership with GB News, making the channel more easily accessible to a worldwide audience. GB News, which focuses on British views across the UK, joins NewsPlayer+’s line-up 32+ live news channels all in one single app. GB News includes original news, debate and opinion-based content. The channel […]
Warner Bros Discovery has walked away from GB News, selling its £60 million (€71m) investment in the fledgling channel to existing backers Legatum Ventures and its chairman Sir Paul Marshall. WBD says that since the Warner-Discover merger, it had “evaluated our global and local investment portfolio” and is no longer a GB News shareholder. WBD […]
One America News Network (OAN), a 24/7 source of national and international news, is now available in Spain through a partnership with Tivify, a streaming platform that offers both free and premium channel options along with a suite of advanced features to its users across the country. On the heels of a recent launch with […]
5 News has announced that its health and well-being segment, Mind Matters with Dr Sian, will be available as a podcast from July 27th. Mind Matters with Dr Sian will continue to run as a segment airing fortnightly within 5 News but will now be available in a longer format as a podcast. The mental […]
Teenagers in the UK are turning away from traditional news channels and are instead looking to Instagram, TikTok and YouTube to keep up to date, Ofcom research has found. Ofcom’s News Consumption in the UK 2021/22 report shows that, for the first time, Instagram is the most popular news source among teenagers – used by nearly […]
As part of its centenary celebrations the BBC has launched ‘BBC Rewind’ across the UK, providing public access to a vast portion of the Corporation’s archive. The new website contains tens of thousands of audio-visual recordings, largely from news output and documentaries. They reflect the life and events of the UK spanning decades, telling the story […]
BBC News has revealed details of its new TV news channel which will launch next year, replacing its two existing separate news channels for UK and global audiences. The channel, which will simply be called BBC News, will tentatively launch in April 2023. This forms part of the plan the broadcaster announced earlier this year […]
Production on Scoop is due to begin in late 2022, based on the chapters covering the events around Prince Andrew’s Newsnight interview. Peter Moffat – the acclaimed screenwriter behind BAFTA winning Criminal Justice and the multi Emmy winning HBO adaptation The Night Of – will adapt the inside story behind Prince Andrew’s Newsnight Interview – which hit headlines around the world in 2019. The feature will be produced […]
SaaS platform providers Newsbridge and Alpha Networks have teamed up to offer sports and media organisations an end-to-end cloud video management and OTT solution. The integrated solution for content asset production and distribution combines Newsbridge’s Cloud Media Hub and signature Multimodal Indexing AI technology, with Alpha Networks’ Bee propelled by Kinow leading Live & On-Demand […]
The acquisition of the majority of the capital of Euronews by Alpac Capital, announced in December 2021, has been finalised, following the approval of the investment by the French Ministry of the Economy, Finance and the Recovery. Alpac Capital is an investment fund manager based in Portugal, owned by Pedro Vargas David and Luís Santos. […]