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...Once a cash cow thanks to advertising and broadcasting fees, Warner’s linear TV business is losing viewers to streaming — a trend that helped send its ad revenue down 12 per cent in the fourth quarter....
...Dentsu estimates the game will mark a bumper weekend for Paramount — which has the rights to show the game this year in the US and is broadcasting it on CBS and Nickelodeon....
...“Netflix has pulled away,” says John Martin, co-founder of Pugilist Capital and former chief executive of Turner Broadcasting....
...Disney has also reportedly talked to Amazon and Verizon about partnerships in a revamped ESPN, which is under financial pressure from the increasing cost of broadcasting live sports....
...About 43 per cent — and 26 per cent in the US — of what we watch is shown via free DTT broadcasting. That proportion will not fall before 2034, according to research from Enders Analysis....
...Subscriptions for YouTube Premium and YouTube TV are included in “other” — a huge category that also includes in-app purchases and sales of Fitbits....
...In 2020, the value of South Korea’s cultural content exports, which include industries such as music, movie and broadcasting, reached an estimated $11.92bn according to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on August 12 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc....
...While linear broadcasting and other traditional media had indeed “lost traction”, Sorrell said, the notion that digital, in particular, lacked appeal was “nonsense”....
...Apple and Major League Soccer have agreed to a broadcasting rights package worth $2.5bn over 10 years, according to people familiar with the matter, a big investment in live sports by the tech group that...
...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....
...From 2023, all live fixtures will air on a dedicated MLS streaming service available on the Apple TV app....
...The same issues are coming to the fore in local TV broadcasting, which may be on a similar trajectory because of the rise of streaming....
...The company’s spending on all new movies and TV shows is expected to reach $23bn, though the number rises to $33bn including sports rights — up 32 per cent from its total content spending in 2021 and 65...
...The TV broadcasting contract, currently with Disney-owned Star India, ends next season, and the next iteration is expected to generate far higher offers than Star’s winning bid in 2018....
...The Tokyo Olympics in July drew the lowest-ever audience since NBC began broadcasting the games in 1988. The Oscars, broadcast in April, also drew a record low audience, as did last year’s Emmys....
...Its strategy was to build a viable sports business alongside its TV service, but also to defend its core broadband base against Sky, which had been offering free broadband to its sports subscribers....
...It became the most formidable competitor in sports broadcasting to Sky, owned by US telecoms group Comcast, which had been offering free broadband to its sports audiences....
...Their bid came to nothing, with President Trump presumably deciding that exonerating a peculiarly-coiffed, orange-hued, publicity-seeking TV star would be a step too far....
...A takeover of TVN by pro-government owners would leave only the smaller Polsat as an independent source of national TV news, skewing the media environment ahead of a general election due in 2023....
...The two clubs are urging their rivals to back an alternative debt deal that does not involve giving up future TV income....
...What is known as Peak TV in the US — the flood of new investment into high quality dramas and documentaries — is still ascending in other countries....
...“If information is too dangerous for the internet, surely it’s too dangerous to be on our TV screens.”...
...“The investors, with the exception of Discovery [Inc, which has a significant stake], they all love Nigel Farage, they regard him as huge, a big, big character....
...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...
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