Tinopolis, the company behind TV shows including Question Time and Crufts and producer of BT’s Premier League and Champion’s League coverage, is up for sale with a price tag of up to £300m
Acquisition vehicle in talks to buy Groupe AB as content war hots up
Sky has taken a substantial stake in the reborn Chrysalis television production company that will fund the creation of a slate of new dramas. Chrysalis Vision was set up by the former management team behind Chrysalis Television, one of the original “super indies” in the production sector that developed long-running shows including Midsomer Murders and Doc Martin. The original business was sold in 2003 as the former Chrysalis media empire was dismantled and became All3Media, which was acquired by Liberty Global and Discovery in 2014 for £500m
ITV paid a reported £50m to lure the The Voice away from The BBC in 2015 but it was the purchase earlier in the year of Talpa Media, the Dutch production company that created The Voice, that represents the longer-term investment for the future. But as Mr Crozier enters his seventh year in charge at ITV, questions are beginning to emerge about the long-term direction of the company and Mr Crozier’s own future
The chief executive of Virgin Media has rejected speculation that its parent company, the pan-European cable empire Liberty Global, could seize on weakness in ITV’s share price to mount a takeover bid for Britain’s biggest commercial broadcaster.
Tom Mockridge told the Sunday Telegraph that Liberty had “enough to do as it is” without wading further into programming. Liberty owns 9.9pc of ITV and has bought the equivalent commercial broadcaster in Ireland, fuelling speculation that it is lining up an approach for ITV.
Time Warner would give a competitive advantage over rivals such as Verizon, T-Mobile US and Sprint with a so-called “vertical integration” strategy, allowing it to use its internet and telecoms services to distribute Time Warner’s film and television portfolio
been rebuffed in a £1bn takeover offer for Entertainment One (eOne), owner of hit children’s TV show Peppa Pig, as it looks to extend an acquisition spree aimed at reducing its reliance on volatile advertising income. Canadian film and TV producer and distributor eOne said it had received and rejected a preliminary proposal to buy the company for 236p a share, or £1.01bn in total
Samantha Cameron’s stepfather is in line to share a £40million windfall after selling part of the TV production business behind hit children’s show Octonauts. Viscount William Astor will split the cash with media mogul Lord Waheed Alli thanks to a deal which valued their firm Silvergate Media at between £70million and £80million. Shamrock Capital Advisers – a […]
UKTV is being tipped to go on an acquisition spree if the BBC is forced to sell off its £500m-valued stake.
British broadcaster holds preliminary talks with Canadian distributor and producer
Silvio Berlusconi and Vincent Bollore, two of Europe’s most powerful media barons, have agreed a €1.75bn (£1.25bn) pact to create a European rival to Netflix and stronger continental opposition to Sky. The deal is expected to be approved this evening by the directors of Mr Berlusconi’s TV company Mediaset. It will see Mr Bollore’s French media giant Vivendi take full control of Mr Berlusconi’s Mediaset Premium. The loss-making pay-TV arm owns rights to top-flight Italian football and competes with Sky Italia
Richard Desmond has sold his adult TV business, including the Television X and Red Hot channels, severing his last link with the adult entertainment industry that helped the Daily Express and Daily Star owner make his fortune. Desmond’s company, Northern & Shell, announced on Friday it had sold its adult broadcasting arm, Portland Television, in […]
US group hires advisers to examine options as operating loss for fourth quarter hits $382m
His wooing of Time Warner chief executive Jeff Bewkes in the summer of 2014 was similarly quick, but less successful. Back then, the media world was gripped by the audacious bid from Mr Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox for Time Warner, a rival that owns Warner Brothers, HBO and Turner television
Three-way fight for US TV station owner heats up as groups separately offer new terms
Broadcaster to air its first series of former BBC singing contest in January 2017 as it also agrees to make two seasons of The Voice Kids
Immediate Media has acquired the channel – which broadcasts 24 hours a day on Sky, Virgin, Freesat and Freeview to devotees of jewellery making – to expand its reach into the lucrative £3bn market for craft-loving British consumers
James Murdoch has said that 21st Century Fox is not happy being a partial shareholder in pan-European pay-TV broadcaster Sky
Owner of franchise in Northern Ireland and loss-making channel UTV Ireland has been in talks with ITV since August ITV is understood to have been able to drive a hard deal owing to the poor launch of UTV Ireland.
Telentertainment oneevision and film company aims to expand hit cartoon characterinto new markets by taking control. Peppa Pig co-owner tertainment One is to take control of UK producer Astley Baker Davies, the creator of the hit cartoon character, in a deal worth £140m
