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WGGB names Thorne as new President

The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain (WGGB) has announced that British playwright, screenwriter and television writer Jack Thorne has been elected its new President effective immediately The writer, known for Adolescence, His Dark Materials, Help, This Is England ’90 and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, steps into the role vacated by Sandi Toksvig OBE […]

September 12, 2025

Prime Video UK announces 20 additional primetime NBA games 

Prime Video has announced an additional 20 regular-season games for the 2025-26 NBA on Prime schedule, tipping-off at primetime for viewers in the UK & Ireland. These Sunday evening games complete the schedule of 86 regular-season games, bringing the total to 29 primetime matchups, available exclusively to Prime members in the UK & Ireland at […]

September 12, 2025By Nik Roseveare

IDI, BMC TV partner to manage UK horseracing broadcast network

BMC TV has partnered with German technology company VIDI to manage and control its nationwide video contribution and broadcast network using the VIDI Network Management System (NMS). The agreement connects 23 racecourses across the UK to RaceTech’s remote production hub at Raynes Park, enabling high-quality, low-latency coverage of over 1,500 horseracing fixtures each year. Delivered […]

September 12, 2025

Barb: 20.6m UK SVoD homes in Q2 2025

Barb, the audience measurement and television ratings organisation, has released data from its Establishment Survey showing that 20.6 million UK homes (69.7 per cent) had access to a SVoD service in Q2 2025. This is an increase from 20.1 million UK homes in Q1 2025. The service-level subscriptions data are as follows: Netflix: 17.6 million […]

September 11, 2025

Report: 74% of consumers use AI tools on weekly basis

Consumer research from Equativ, the end-to-end media platform, unveils how consumers are interacting with AI platforms in its survey titled, The Impact Of AI On The Consumer’s Browsing Behaviour. Consumers are increasingly relying on AI for product discovery, answers, and summarisation, which shows that AI is reshaping information-seeking habits — especially in younger and digitally […]

September 11, 2025

RDK deployed by Vodafone

In advance of the annual RDK Global Summit, RDK Management has announced that Vodafone has deployed RDK-B as its central software for the latest generation of Wi-Fi 7 Fibre and DOCSIS CPEs, the Ultra Hub 7 routers. These new routers have been now deployed commercially in the UK and in Germany. Vodafone also continues to […]

September 11, 2025

Ozone announces new appointments

Ozone – the digital advertising business founded by four of the UK’s leading publishers – has announced a number of hires across the organisation as it accelerates the growth of its audience platform business. Across the first half of 2025, Ozone saw a 20 per cent increase in its global headcount, with new hires in […]

September 11, 2025

Report: Sluggish growth for UK TV production revenues

Pact has published the 2025 edition of the Pact Census, a report by Oliver and Ohlbaum Associates. It shows that total TV production revenues saw sluggish growth in 2024, increasing slightly by 1.4 per cent to £3.66 billion (€4.23bn), as the sector navigates a challenging commissioning market at home and abroad. This slight growth in […]

September 10, 2025

UK, Spain among top performers on August Netflix ISP Speed Index

During August 2025, 0.5 per cent of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) saw an increase of 0.2 Mbps, 18 per cent stayed the same, 81 per cent decreased  0.2 Mbps, and 0.5 per cent went down 0.4 Mbps on the Netflix ISP Speed Index – a monthly update on which ISPs provide the best prime-time Netflix […]

September 9, 2025

TNT Sports to air Asia Cup cricket in UK & Ireland

Every match of the ACC Men’s T20 Asia Cup 2025 broadcast live and exclusively on TNT Sports and discovery+ in the UK and Ireland this September. The tournament, which starts today (September 9th) and concludes on September 28th, is a marquee event on the international cricket calendar. TNT Sports and its streaming home discovery+ will […]

September 9, 2025By Nik Roseveare