Genius Brands International, through its subsidiary Frederator Network, has completed a deal with Japan’s TOHO International, whereby TOHO is making a multimillion-dollar investment in the company’s original productions: Bee and PuppyCat (…)
Brunico Communications has acquired the assets of the National Association of Television Programming Executives (NATPE), including its brand, international content events, and the Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Awards. The sale has (…)
International food channel Gusto TV has inked a deal with Olympusat and its FreeTV application.
FreeTV is an AVOD streaming service providing programming from around the world. It’s available on all (…)
Following its 30th birthday in 2022, the European Audiovisual Observatory starts a new year under its Portuguese presidency. The Strasbourg-based organization has been providing facts and figures and analysis of (…)
On December 29, 2022 a Canada’s antitrust tribunal approved the highly contested proposed merger between the Toronto-based Rogers Communications and the Calgary-based Shaw Communications. The following day, Canada’s Competition bureau (…)
Edson Arantes do Nascimento (known as Pelé) died on December 29, 2022 at the age of 82 from colon cancer at the Albert Einstein hospital in São Paulo. He was (…)
Time flies when you’re having fun, but was 2022 fun? Yes, we returned to a “new” normal life after the pandemic, but we also saw the destruction that “Mad Vlad” (…)
NBCUniversal has announced its 2023 NewFronts and Upfront presentation dates. Linda Yaccarino, NBCU chairman and head of sales and partnerships, revealed that the NewFronts presentation (for digital and streaming) will (…)
On December 19, 2022 Los Angeles-based Rive Gauche Television filed for Chapter 11 protection in the District of Central California. In the filing, the company reports assets of $50M-$100M and (…)
This January, AMC Networks will feature new series Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches across all of its linear networks with BBC America, IFC, SundanceTV and WEtv joining AMC and AMC+ for a world (…)
