ITV has announced a new distribution and commercial partnership with YouTube, enabling viewers in the United Kingdom to watch popular ITV programming online through YouTube. The collaboration marks another step in the ITV strategy to broaden its digital reach and engage audiences beyond its traditional broadcast channels.
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Warner Bros. Discovery will split its business into global linear networks and a separate streaming and studios division. It expects to complete the division of the business by the middle of 2025. Standby for more mergers and acquisitions, partnerships, and rebundling.
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DAZN, which aims to be the Netflix of sport, may be seeking to gain a significant stake in the Foxtel business in Australia, after News Corp put its majority share of the company up for sale. Shay Segev, the chief executive of DAZN, is reported to have been in Australia, where he met both Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch. He is also reported to have met with Telstra. Meanwhile, Foxtel chief executive Patrick Delany has apparently been meeting Sky in London. If the deal proceeds, it could be a game changer in Australia.
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The CANAL+ group will cease broadcasting its four pay-television channels on digital terrestrial television in France from June 2025. The CNews and CStar channels will continue transmission. The move is partly a response to a decision by the regulator not to renew the broadcast licence for the controversial C8 channel owned by the Vivendi group.
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A fibre network connection is now available to 69% or more than 20 of the 30 million households in the United Kingdom. That is an increase of 12 percentage points in a year. However, the actual adoption of full-fibre connections is much lower, at 35% of preemises where it is available or 23% of all premises in the country.
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There are more than 30 million connected televisions in use in the United Kingdom, close to 24 million set-top boxes, and a further 10 million plug-in devices. It is a fragmented picture, with no single platform having more than a quarter share of the market. A new report provides a snapshot of the connected television market by platform.
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