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...But as shown by Disney’s acquisition of Fox, Amazon’s purchase of MGM, and now the questions over what happens to Paramount+, the future of streaming may also be sequels and spin-offs....
...On Wednesday, the BBC said it would spin-off several new stations as part of an overhaul of radio strategy....
...Other new series include The Penguin, based on the Batman villain, Dune: Prophecy and a spin off from Stephen King’s It....
...But ESPN’s annual cash flow is too valuable to give up in a sale or spin-off....
...to London-based company Digital TV Research....
...“If News Corp separates the digital real estate assets through a tax-free spin[off] . . . shareholders will see significant appreciation in the company’s share price,” Smith said....
...The social media group is expected to report a net loss of $610mn for the first quarter on revenues of $213mn....
...Starboard plans to recommend News Corp spin off its digital real estate division, which includes a stake in Australian online property site operator REA Group and Realtor.com parent Move Inc The activist...
...Access has also just invested further into A24, a film production house behind the hit film Everything Everywhere All at Once, with plans to back new films as well as a make-up brand spin-off....
...“If News Corp separates the digital real estate assets through a tax-free spin[off] . . . shareholders will see significant appreciation in the company’s share price,” Smith said. Read more here...
...Food for thought at Unilever Spin-offs work particularly well when the original corporate hodge podge obscures the value of one (or more) true gems....
...Amazon’s Lord of the Rings spin-off, The Rings of Power, was reported to have been one of the most expensive TV shows made on a cost per episode basis....
...Mining minister Gwede Mantashe said he was personally “negative” on the deal, which would spin off two South African subsidiaries. For BHP, the clock’s ticking....
...“When I was a student there wasn’t really social media [though] there was Facebook. But it wasn’t used to share your work....
...their move into CMC/other has had some impact on the Digital count.)...
...Ive, designer of multiple digital music players, now owns the LP12 he once yearned for....
...It’s true — Telegraph Media Group makes money, to the tune of £29.6mn before tax in 2021....
...Fox News: As Lachlan Murdoch takes over as the new chair of the media group he must contend with a number of unresolved claims hanging over the company....
...An event that started out modestly almost 70 years ago as a spin-off of the Cannes film festival now sprawls along the Croisette on to hired yachts and into decked-out mansions....
...Hulu was created in 2007 as a joint venture among media companies who wanted to combat online piracy with a legitimate digital home for their programming....
...Murdoch, who turns 92 next month, had been seeking to combine News Corp with Fox, reuniting the two halves of his media empire....
...Outside of sport, though, 2023 looks like another year of anxiety in media. anna.nicolaou@ft.com...
...Iger, like his peers at traditional media groups, is looking to emphasise profitability as the main streaming metric instead of subscriber growth....
...Netflix stunned investors last April when it revealed it had lost subscribers, triggering a punishing stock market revaluation of the entire US media industry....
...Data from the Lloyds Consumer Digital Index 2021, a study of digital skills across the UK, estimated that 5 per cent of the population are digitally excluded in some way....
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