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Indian telecom giant Bharti Airtel has secured an agreement with Malaysian holding company Axiata Group Berhad and its Sri Lankan telecom operator subsidiary Dialog to merge their Sri Lankan operations. Dialog Axiata,...

Paramount Global has seen its share price drop more than 28% after the US media giant posted a $1.12bn revenue loss in the first quarter, with streaming losses growing. The decline in overall revenue contrasts sharply...

RTL took the hit of a 9% drop in revenue in the first quarter as a sharp decline in the ad market made itself felt. However, the group saw streaming subscribers and revenue continue to rise strongly, with paying subs up...

Gangs of London US-Canadian youth-skewing digital firm Vice Media Group is preparing to file for bankruptcy, it has been reported. The news comes just days after the company unveiled a raft of “painful but...

Germany’s ProSiebenSat.1 Media has appointed Martin Mildner as its new chief financial officer. Mildner, who will take up his post on May 1, was most recently CFO of MDAX-listed service provider United Internet AG and...

France’s TF1 has officially secured its berth on the country’s digital-terrestrial platform for another 10 years after signing a new agreement with media and telecom regulator ARCOM. CEO Rodolphe Belmer said: “I...

The Public Accounts Committee made demands to the UK public service broadcaster (PSB) BBC to provide a series of plans on moving its services to fully digital by the 2030s. In the BBC Digital report published on Friday,...

Dutch TV operators KPN, VodafoneZiggo, T-Mobile and Delta have proposed a joint-offering of €2 billion for Eredivisie’s broadcasting rights over a 10-year period from 2025-20355, outbidding current rights-holder...

Disney’s digital content division, 20th Digital Studio, has become the latest casualty of the Mouse House’s most recent round of layoffs. The unit, which launched in 2008 as Fox Digital Studio, finances and produces...

Reliance-owned Indian broadcaster Viacom18 has struck a deal with Warner Bros. Discovery to bring HBO and warner Bros content to the JioCinema app. Content to be added to the platform includes shows Succession, Game of...

Disney has cut a swathe of jobs across its animation, unscripted and ESPN divisions, as the impact of the company’s second wave of lay-offs continues to emerge. Following the departure of ABC and Freeform execs on...

ABC and Freeform execs are among the casualties of Disney’s second round of lay-offs taking place this week, as the media giant seeks to cut 7,000 jobs. Julia Jarmon, young-adult focused channel Freeform’s SVP of...

    Sports streamer DAZN has signed a deal with flying car racing technology company Airspeeder to stream Airspeeder EXA series race. The one-year non-exclusive content partnership will feature highlights from the...

Reliance Industries-backed Indian media outfit Viacom18 has reportedly recruited Disney Star’s head of network entertainment channels, Kevin Vaz, in a senior role. Kevin Vaz According to the Economic Times, citing...

Australia SailGP Team helmed by Tom Slingsby celebrate winning by sailing by spectators on Navy Pier on Race Day 2 of the T-Mobile United States Sail Grand Prix | Chicago at Navy Pier, Lake Michigan, Season 3, in...

Jeff Shell Comcast parent company of NBCUniversal has announced the company’s CEO Jeff Shell will be stepping down from his role and will exit the company effective immediately following inappropriate conduct. An...

Nielsen’s monthly total TV and streaming snapshot The Gauge reported TV viewership in March was down by 2.7% from February in Poland. According to the research outfit, the majority of the decline in viewing stems...

Ofcom’s HQ Telecom and media regulator, Ofcom has been consulting on whether it is to remove some or all of the stricter advertising rules that apply to commercially-funded public service broadcasters (PSBs), which...

Kevin Bakhurst Irish broadcaster RTÉ has named Kevin Bakhurst director general who succeeds Dee Forbes when she steps down from the position at the end of her term on July 11, 2023. Bakhurst joins the role following an...