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...The contents were sold by Qatar’s Sheikh Hamad bin Abdullah Al Thani and family, who had bought the house in 2007 and oversaw its serious restoration before the hôtel particulier sold on earlier this year...
...“Something that we’re really excited about is to go and invest in new content,” said Mr Georgiou....
...Viewers are increasingly following ESPN’s sports content from its linear cable channel to its streaming product, ESPN+....
...Filipinos disillusioned with the political establishment that came after the restoration of democracy are feeling nostalgic for a Marcos presidency....
...“Our imprint is actually creating our content, building sets, moving people around to be able to produce a series or film....
...There have also been failures, notably Quibi, which focused on content for smartphones and shut down only six months after launching....
...The group, which owns the eponymous cable channel as well as networks including TLC, Animal Planet and the Oprah Winfrey Network, has a market capitalisation of about $15bn, compared with Disney’s $250bn...
...A merger would bring together a wide-ranging roster of US cable channels, including Animal Planet, TLC and the Discovery Channel, owned by Discovery, and the Food Network and HGTV, owned by Scripps....
...The combined group will have a wide-ranging roster of US cable channels, including Animal Planet, TLC and the Discovery Channel, owned by Discovery, and the Food Network and HGTV, owned by Scripps....
...Adding to the pressure is AT&T’s pending purchase of Time Warner, which would give the telecoms company a big footprint in content....
...“Content has always been our north star,” he said this week. Consolidation has been brewing in the sector, changing the power dynamics between distributors and content owners....
...Discovery Communications is buying Scripps Networks Interactive for $14.6bn including debt in a deal that brings the channels TLC, Animal Planet, HGTV and the Food Network under the same roof, at a time...
...Discovery’s shows veer toward reality fare like TLC’s My 600-lb Life, Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch and Investigation Discovery’s Homicide Hunter....
...Content groups are combining in response to the shift....
...He added that the companies are targeting a different customer, while RH is building a brand with “no peer” and controls their content “from concept to customer”....
...from a number of angles for some time: Major distributors have combined, millennials are “cutting the cord”, digital service providers like Netflix and Amazon are spending huge sums on their own original content...
...It highlighted partnerships with Snapchat and Amazon for its networks including the Discovery Channel and TLC. “TV ad sales teams [are] likely to look to capitalise on advertiser concerns . . ....
...Shares in Discovery Communications jumped 7 per cent after the owner of television channels including TLC and Animal Planet reported net income nearly doubled in the second quarter....
...The outlook has been less rosy for non-news cable shows, with ratings at Viacom’s Comedy Central and Discovery Communications’ TLC slipping by double digits this year....
...Discovery, whose channels include Animal Planet and TLC, will seek to “invest more and make less” programming, he added....
...While Mr Pence said he hoped to have a fix this week, he provided few details about the content....
...Discovery, the owner of channels such as TLC, Animal Planet and Eurosport, is the largest content producer and channel owner to have spoken out publicly against the deal....
...Content costs for the company’s namesake channel and TLC are about 20 per cent of revenues, compared with a cable industry average of 47 per cent, he says, giving Discovery more operating leverage than its...
...Instead, the Saudis kept pumping, against a background of rising US oil production, the restoration of some supplies from Libya and subdued demand. The price has collapsed to $80. This matters....
...Discovery Communications, the US cable group that owns channels such as TLC and Animal Planet, has struck a deal in China to supply all of the programming for a new digital venture....
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