New entertainment format Slip Show, developed by Love is Blind and Married at First Sight producer Kinetic Content, a Red Arrow Studios company, has been picked up by ProSiebenSat.1’s Seven.One Entertainment Group. Watching people slip and fall is universally funny! And now, the slipperiest competition ever televised is coming to TV networks around the world. […]

Investment bank Berenberg says that with the closing of the acquisition of the Meet Group, ProSiebenSat.1 now has an online dating business that has the potential to deliver broad-based revenue and profits growth. “Management has been very clear that the intention is to conduct an IPO for this business (although a trade sale might also […]

The stresses on Europe’s commercial broadcasters continue. Rainer Beaujean, the Chairman of ProSieben’s (P7) Executive Board told German newspaper Handelsblatt that advertising revenues in September had fallen back but by less than 10 per cent. Beaujean said that October was shaping up in a similar vein. He did not provide the advertising outlook for the […]

German commercial broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 has sold a web-hosting business, myLoc, to Italian cloud services provider WIIT for around €50 million The move is seen as part of its diversification strategy and designed as part of its streamlining of its non-essential elements to focus more on its entertainment assets. With five data centres and a business […]

Germany’s ProSiebenSat.1 has acquired the free-to-air domestic TV broadcast rights package of the (DFL) Bundesliga football games for the 2021-2025 seasons. Sky Deutschland won five of the seven pay-TV packages. Perhaps coincidentally, private equity giant KKR increased its stake in ProSiebenSat.1 and now holds 6.61 per cent. Earlier KKR acquired a 5.21 percent stake as […]