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Data: US World Cup audience wanes

US football fans were initially eager to cheer on team USA during the Women’s World Cup this summer, particularly at the start of the tournament. Some 4.4 million US households tuned-in to the team’s first game against Vietnam, which aired on Fox at 9pm EST on July 21st. Later games that team USA played in […]

August 22, 2023

Research: US pay-TV providers lost 1.7m subs in Q2

Leichtman Research Group (LRG) reports that the largest pay-TV providers in the US – representing about 96 per cent of the market – lost about 1,730,000 net video subscribers in Q2 2023, compared to a pro forma net loss of about 1,725,000 in Q2 2022. The top pay-TV providers now account for about 71.9 million […]

August 16, 2023

TelevisaUnivision Q2 revenue up 11%

TelevisaUnivision, the Spanish-language media and content company, has announced financial results for Q2 with total revenue growing 11 per cent to $1.2 billion (€1bn), driven by growth across all major revenue streams in both geographies. Advertising revenue increased 10 per cent. In the US, advertising revenue increased 1 per cent reflecting strength in national advertising […]

July 20, 2023

Survey: 30% of US will watch Women’s World Cup

The Women’s World Cup is set to begin on July 20th with the US Women’s National Team (USWNT) playing Vietnam the next day. A Seton Hall Sports Poll found that 30 per cent of Americans surveyed will watch or follow FIFA’s 32-nation soccer tournament – a number that grows to 46 per cent among sports […]

July 18, 2023

New York Warriors acquired by Indian entrepreneurs

One of cricket’s fastest growing format, the T10, is scaling new heights every day and one of the next destinations is the US, where some of the most loved legends of the game will battle it out for top honours. The inaugural edition of the US Masters T10 League, the first edition of the T10 […]

July 17, 2023

LADstudios expands into US

LADbible Group has  announced the launch of LADstudios,  its data-driven factual entertainment division, in the US. LADstudios will focus on producing dedicated content for an American audience, building AFP commissions and sponsorships and driving growth in direct revenue with UNILAD,  which currently has 58.6 followers multi-platform, becoming the central point of the Group’s offering in the […]

June 30, 2023

Pure Flix merges with Great American Media

Pure Flix, a faith and family streaming platform owned by Sony Pictures Television, and Great American Media, home to a portfolio of family-friendly media brands, have announced the signing of an agreement to merge the two companies. Pure Flix will become part of the merged company, with Great American Media contributing two cable networks (Great […]

May 12, 2023

Grove Street FM helping rural America get into FAST market

Grove Street FM, a provider of localised content in rural Central Virginia, has signed and released 150 new streaming channels from FAST Channels TV to its growing community of viewers. The channels are streaming at no charge to their viewers in an Ad based model Grove Street FM chief executive officer, Woody G. Watts, commented: […]

April 27, 2023

Intelsat gains exclusive PBS distribution over US

Intelsat used the NAB show in Las Vegas to announce that it was now the exclusive satellite distributor for the US Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) transmissions. More than 150 affiliates take Intelsat’s PBS signals. PBS is a private, non-profit broadcaster, founded in 1969, whose members are America’s public TV stations. It is a multi-platform media […]

April 19, 2023By Chris Forrester

Estrella Media expands FAST presence with Amagi

Amagi, the global leader in cloud-based SaaS technology for broadcast and connected TV, has announced an expansion of its partnership with leading Spanish-language media company Estrella Media to streamline its ingest segmentation, creation, distribution, and monetisation of its Free Ad–supported Streaming TV (FAST) channels. Estrella Media is a leading Spanish-language media company and one of […]

April 17, 2023