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Endemol Oz CEO follows Fennessys out the door

The chief executive of Endemol Australia, Janeen Faithfull, is exiting the business as Endemol Shine Group continues to look for a leader in the Australasian region. Faithfull’s departure comes soon after Shine Australia chiefs Mark and Carl Fennessy turned down the chance to run Endemol Shine Australia. Gallipoli producer Endemol Shine co-international operations CEO Martha […]

Ex-FremantleMedia boss joins Singaporean prodco

Patrick Schult has joined Imagine Group Entertainment as director of business development. Schult held various roles at FremantleMedia Asia, culminating in a three-year stint as CEO, which came to an end in 2011. He then set up Singapore-based, Japanese-backed, distributor Media Stable and worked as a consultant to media companies in the region. He started […]

Sky sees highest UK customer growth in 11 years

Sky reported its highest third quarter customer growth in 11 years in the UK and Ireland, after adding 127,000 people there in the three months ending March 31. The UK and Irish gains came as European satcaster Sky added 103,000 new retail customers in Germany and Austria – 61% more than the same period last […]

France Télévisions forced to work with VOD service

French media regulator the CSA has ordered public broadcaster France Télévisions to make its channels available to internet TV provider Playmédia’s Play.tv service. The CSA ruled the pubcaster must cooperate with Play.tv with ‘minimum delay’, following a request by the latter to force the broadcaster to engage with it. The CSA said that Playmedia’s services […]

Netflix rebooting retro comedy Full House

Having relaunched Arrested Development, Netflix is moving ahead with another comedy reboot with a new version of Full House. The original series ran for eight seasons and almost 200 episodes on US broadcast network ABC in the 1980s and 1990s. It follows a widowed father, his best friend and brother in-law as they raise a […]

Food Network dines out on new Asian deals

Food Network has secured a raft of new carriage deals in Asia. The Scripps Networks Interactive-owned channel will now be carried on the now TV platform in Hong Kong, Indovision in Indonesia and, in the same territory, on OkeVision and Play Media. SNI said the foodie and lifestyle channel, which first launched in the region […]

4K add ex-Viacom sales exec

New York-based distributor 4K Media has hired former Viacom International Media Networks programme sales exec Jonitha Keymoore. Most recently Keymoore was director of acquisitions at OTT platform Cinedigm, and at Yu-Gi-Oh co-owner 4K will be director of programme sales. Before Cinedigm she was VIMN’s manager of programme sales operations, selling syndicated MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, […]

NBC Universo poaches Discovery exec

Latin-flavoured US cable channel NBC Universo has poached a Discovery Communications exec to become its senior VP, programming and production. Bilai Joa Silar will begin at the NBCUniversal-owned network on April 27, reporting to NBC Universo president Rubén Mendiola. The news comes two months after NBCU rebranded mun2 as NBC Universo to coincide with the […]

OTT to ‘end broadcast TV as we know it’

The emergence of the likes of Netflix and Amazon Prime Instant Video signals “the end of broadcast TV as we know it”, according to media analysts at Juniper Research. A new study suggests the OTT market will generate revenues of US$31.6 billion by 2019, up from the US$8 billion taken last year. This will encompass continued […]

BBC First launching with Sony in Japan

BBC Worldwide’s new channel brand BBC First is launching as a programming block on Sony Pictures Television’s mystery-themed network in Japan. The deal to place Brit content on SPT Networks’ AXN Mystery channel marks BBC First’s first branded programming block, and comes after the brand launched as a full channel in Australia. In Japan, the […]