Amazon is to add more than 40 TV channels to its UK streaming service, including ITV and live sport for the first time, upping the stakes against rival Netflix and pay-TV operators such as Sky.
Sky is to make its full TV service of hundreds of channels available without the need for a satellite dish for the first time, as it looks to stem customer defections to rivals such as BT
The BBC World Service is to undertake its biggest expansion since the 1940s
Time Inc. is planning a major reorganization focused on web video, live events and working closely with marketers, according to a person familiar with the plans, as the publisher of People magazine tries to transform itself for the digital age
Rupert Murdoch’s UK newspaper group has mounted a major challenge to BBC radio with a £220m takeover of Wireless Group, the owner of the Premier League football broadcaster talkSport.
At the start of 2016, UK television broadcasters were on a roll. Spending on TV advertising had surged more than 7 per cent to £5.3bn in 2015. ITV, the UK’s biggest commercial broadcaster, was looking forward to another strong year — thanks in part to sporting events including the European football championships. But, so far, the TV ad market in 2016 is flat, or just marginally stronger than at the same point last year, according to media agencies. Some industry analysts even believe TV ad spending could fall this year — for the first time since the global financial crisis in 2009.
Online advertising has grown rapidly in recent years, with US revenues hitting $59.6bn in 2015, according to eMarketer, compared with the $68.9bn generated by television. However, as online advertising has grown, so have concerns about viewer measurement, fraud and the placement of campaigns on sites that could be harmful to brands.
Netflix will hit 100m subscribers “some time next year”, according to chief executive Reed Hastings, after the digital home of Daredevil and Orange is the New Black reported its best ever quarter, aided by expansion into 130 new markets
Amazon is to offer video streaming of exclusive shows such as Transparent and The Man in the High Castle as a standalone service in the US for the first time as it tries to make up ground on Netflix
Amazon is in talks with British broadcasters to add their channel brands and programmes to its streaming service, as it gears up to use Jeremy Clarkson as the spearhead of an attack on the pay-TV market
Nearly a quarter of UK households now subscribe to Netflix, with more than 1.4m joining in 2015
The popular streaming video service outdid Wall Street expectations for the quarter by a full five cents per share and added 5.59 million new viewers
When Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings took to the stage in Las Vegas on Wednesday to announce the streaming service’s expansion into a further 130 countries, he told the audience they were “witnessing the birth of a global TV network”.
On Sunday night, in a studio close to one of east London’s most car-clogged arteries, a fake Alpine hill will be alive with the sound of music in a £2m production that marks the first time a musical has been broadcast live on national television in the UK.
The new company is to be rebranded Aardman Nathan Love, in a merger that would create Aardman’s first production facility outside of the UK
Apple Inc is looking to move into the original programming business to compete with video streaming companies such as Netflix Inc
BT will broadcast the next Ashes series from Australia after winning the latest battle in its war with Sky for key television content
Amazon has won the race to sign the departing presenters of BBC’s Top Gear show, as online groups continue to encroach on the terrain of traditional broadcasters by securing major deals to produce original content
BT has escalated its war of words with Sky, saying its rival’s dominance of the pay TV market is bad for consumers and calling on Ofcom to investigate competition in the pay-TV market
Office for Budget Responsibility analysis predicts decline in spending from £3.9bn to £3.5bn by 2020 as BBC covers cost of free TV licences for the over-75s. The OBR predicts BBC spending will fall by about £400m from £3.9bn this year to £3.5bn in 2020/21 as the BBC takes responsibly for the bill in phases. The […]
