Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...But subscribers are shrinking as people cancel their cable TV packages....
...In an interview with the Financial Times, Chapek said Disney had been “deluged” with interest from companies seeking to buy ESPN this year amid rumours that the company was weighing a sale of the cable network...
...Investors had previously been enthusiastic about Netflix’s growth, making the company one of the most successful stocks of the decade, alongside Facebook, Amazon and Google....
...Media dealmaking has been one of the biggest drivers of the boom as companies race to compete with streaming services such as Netflix....
...After the deals are completed, SoftBank will be left with a 3.3 per cent stake in T-Mobile US, comprised of 7m fixed priced options and 34m floating price ones....
...It also hired Jay Carney, former press secretary to President Barack Obama, as head of global corporate affairs, who brought a more combative style to press efforts on cable news and Twitter....
...Anyway, there’s much to enjoy in the paper for policy wonks, technologists or historians, so do have a read if you want a break from wondering whether we’ll have a V-shaped recovery or not....
...In the US, data usage via the cable company Comcast is up 32 per cent nationwide, and by over 60 per cent in locked-down cities....
...Its flagship launch series, The Morning Show, starring Jennifer Aniston, Steve Carell and Reese Witherspoon, is “brutally dull”, according to one reviewer, while other programming, such as a take on the...
...There might also be parallels with the profusion of niche cable television channels in the 1990s — and the bout of consolidation that followed....
...Ofcom said the proportion of people signed up to Netflix, Amazon Prime, Sky’s Now TV and Disney Life “leapt” to 47 per cent this year, compared to 39 per cent last year, with many subscribed to more than one...
...I picked my way gingerly over a tangle of cables and took a seat. A few moments later there was a countdown and then the sound of shutters clacking....
...While a competitor might allocate a quarter or a third of a fee to a senior banker who worked on a transaction, Guggenheim in one instance credited well over 60 per cent of the fees from one deal to the...
...That is a meaningful difference even to a simple smartphone-based VR viewer, let alone the cumbersome system of cables, sensors and controllers that PC-based systems involve....
...Goldman Sachs stands to make about $105m for advising 21st Century Fox in its $71bn asset sale to Walt Disney and for helping Rupert Murdoch finance his new broadcasting group, in one of the most lucrative...
...themselves has significantly and fundamentally changed as a result of the rapid convergence between technology, media and telecom,” which has prompted companies to respond by bundling services such as cable...
...London’s V&A Museum is hosting an exhibition called The Future Starts Here, running until November....
...One can understand why cable news does not cover this....
...It is laying undersea cables. It is about to pay $380m to Google boss Sundar Pichai. It has employed another 11,000 staff in 12 months....
...This is in part because of some bad choices by Viacom — a lousy deal with Netflix, for one — and partly because CBS made some good bets on sport and successfully forced cable distributors to pay for the...
...CDL v Millennium hotels: Singapore stand-off A simple question sits at the heart of a battle between one of Singapore’s richest men Kwek Leng Beng and a group of investors in UK-listed Millennium & Copthorne...
...The media group will decamp from its current home in the consumer discretionary sector to make up the new media & entertainment sub-sector, comprising companies including advertisers, broadcasters, cable...
...The acquisition is one of the largest European private equity deals agreed in recent years....
...If you are still tempted by spherical photography, I do recommend the Ricoh Theta V....
...Growth in the US fueled third-quarter earnings at Altice, the cable, telecoms and advertising group controlled by the Franco-Israeli billionaire Patrick Drahi, offsetting continued pressure in its French...
International Edition