Channel 4 has announced the appointment of Rak Patel as its Chief Commercial Officer. In this newly created role, Patel will assume leadership of Channel 4 Sales, the commercial arm of Channel 4, with responsibility for driving the organisation’s advertising revenue. A key focus of the role is to accelerate the commercial elements of Channel…

The economic viability and the very existence of DTT channel Chérie 25 would be impacted by the non-renewal of sister channel NRJ 12’s authorisation, according to French TV and radio NRJ Group. In July 2024, regulator Arcom decided against the renewal of the NRJ 12 DTT frequency, which will expire at the end of February…

Mobile operators around the world would like to merge four mobile networks in their respective nations into three. This would improve the business case for investment by eliminating duplicative administration, improving spectrum synergies, and upgrading customers to better networks. Strand Consult has studied mobile industry consolidation since 2000 with the case of South Korea merging…

FreeCast is launching YouBundle, a new service that lets consumers in the US build a customised bundle of streaming video products, centralise their subscription management, and consolidate media costs into a single monthly payment. FreeCast says the product is the first piece of its omni-channel media industry solution to be rolled out, with several more…

Five years after acquiring the retail advertising platform PromoteIQ, Microsoft now seems to be quietly shutting it down and pushing clients to use Criteo. Multiple sources say Microsoft began letting retail media publishers know that it was sunsetting the service over the summer, at the same time it announced a “strategic collaboration” with the ad…

Intelsat CEO David Wajsgras confirms the logic behind the decision for SES to buy his business, saying that there had been a tailwind of talk about mergers and consolidation for years, and that the decision to come together was needed in order to be able to compete against the new players in space, not least…

Emilie Anthonis is to become the new President and Managing Director for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region of trade body the Motion Picture Association (MPA) today announced, effective January 1st 2025. She will succeed Stan McCoy, who is stepping down after more than a decade of transformational leadership. “Emilie is a veteran…

The October 2nd raid by South Africa communications regulator Icasa on satellite broadcaster StarSat was deliberately damaging said StarSat officials. Senior technical staff were at the broadcaster’s Johannesburg head office and tried to tell Icasa and the police during the raid which equipment operated their systems. But, says StarSat, this advice was ignored and cables…

The Connected TV (CTV) video streaming industry in the US operates a massive data-driven surveillance apparatus that has transformed the television set into a sophisticated monitoring, tracking and targeting device, according to a new report from lobbying group the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD). How TV Watches Us: Commercial Surveillance in the Streaming Era documents how CTV…

Everyone TV – the organisation behind streaming platform Freely and the evolution of free TV in the UK – has struck a deal with Amazon Fire TV In a significant development for the new platform, Freely will now be available on a wide range of new next-gen smart TVs which use the Fire TV operating…