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...The impasse has left about 15mn US households without access to Disney channels, including sports network ESPN....
...The Korean Wave opens September 24, V&A ‘Make, Break, Remix: The Rise of K-Style’ by Fiona Bae, (Thames & Hudson), will be published in the UK & Ireland on 22 September 2022...
...The terms of Eurosport’s Olympics deal, which began in 2018, also differ by country, as many nations have broadcasting rules that dictate the Games must also be shown by free-to-air channels....
...Spain’s Telefónica made an ill-fated deal to buy Big Brother creator Endemol at the turn of the century while others have built sports broadcasting business, funded content studios, and acquired TV channels...
...Arnon Mishkin, director of the Fox News “decision desk” who is responsible for calling the race for the Murdoch-controlled cable television channel, said: “There has always been a slight skew [for mailed-in...
...Apple is turning to traditional broadcasting to boost its streaming service, exploring a tie-up with iHeartMedia, the largest US radio group that is attempting to claw itself out of bankruptcy....
...Ofcom’s report made clear the corporation was “broadly delivering on its remit”....
...KKR could also consider supporting Mediaset for Europe: Mediaset is intent on building a pan-European broadcasting presence through Media For Europe....
...Turner Broadcasting, whose cable channels include TBS, TNT and the Cartoon Network as well as CNN, is Time Warner’s most profitable division....
...WPP will also reduce is planned capex from £400m to v£300m....
...A takeover at Viacom’s current share price would value the cable channel operator at more than $22bn, including its roughly $10bn of net debt....
...Such a merger would give it a clear distribution channel to better compete with Comcast, the biggest cable company, and AT&T....
...The winning run extended to television, where Ewan McGregor won best actor in a mini-series for his work in Fargo, which is produced by Fox’s FX channel....
...The CMA said that any remedies could contain a sunset clause — meaning they could be implemented to clear the passage of Fox’s Sky purchase and then allowed to lapse when Fox completed the sale of its entertainment...
...Ofcom, the media regulator, revealed on Monday that Mr Murdoch’s Fox News Channel twice breached UK broadcasting standards before it was pulled from the airwaves this summer....
...“Our clear advice was that these . . . did not justify a reference” on broadcasting standards grounds, she added....
...According to the exchange of letters between the two, Ofcom took the view that it had to identify clear risks of corporate governance failure....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on April 20, 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...senior directors are fit and proper persons to hold a UK broadcasting licence....
...It is also far from clear that the family’s influence on British politicians is in any way diminished....
...Mark Kranz was CFO of Fox News from 2004 until last year, leaving the channel shortly after Mr Ailes was pushed out by its parent company, 21st Century Fox....
...Some networks, such as Turner Broadcasting, which is part of Time Warner, have taken steps to run fewer ads on channels in order to retain viewers and offer advertisers more prominence and less clutter,...
...Yet the turmoil at the cable news channel is far from over....
...Mr Bakish has said that Viacom has “clear weakness areas” and pledged to revive its ailing MTV network....
...In July last year he was pulled up by the Federal Trade Commission for failing to disclose that he was paid tens of thousands of dollars to promote a Warner Bros game via his channel....
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