Broadcasters
BSkyB in talks to create European pay TV giant with Sky Deutschland and Sky Italia
BSkyB has confirmed it is in preliminary talks about acquiring 21st Century Fox’s 57% stake…
Time Warner linked to web operator Fullscreen
US media giant Time Warner is reportedly seeking to follow the likes of Disney, RTL…
Liberty Media to spin-off cable assets
Liberty Media is to spin-off its cable assets into a separate publicly-traded business. The company…
TV4 Sport in HD
Swedish broadcaster TV4 has begun broadcasting its TV4 Sport channel in HD on the country’s…
Canis Media offers new Manchester channel position
UK broadcast management company and EPG broker Canis Media is opening up a new channel…
Discovery and Liberty buy All3Media for £550 million
Discovery Communications and Liberty Global have agreed to buy UK-based TV programme maker and distributer…
CNN recruits digital and sales specialist Wyatt
Turner’s cable news net CNN International has hired Owen Wyatt for a newly-created digital and…
ProSiebenSat.1 to launch streaming app
German broadcast group ProSiebenSat.1 is set to launch a new app, called 7TV, that will…
General ad uplift offsets problems in France for RTL
Advertising growth in some markets helped RTL Group to offset a flat market in Germany…
ProSiebenSat.1 buys into Talenthouse
ProSiebenSat.1 is expanding its digital capabilities by buying into LA-based online artist networking platform Talenthouse….