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Sky channels launch on Snapchat

UK satcaster Sky has launched two content channels on the new Snapchat Discover platform for Sky News and Sky Sports. Sky will use the Snapchat service to publish daily editions of content featuring six to 10 ‘snaps’, using a combination of images, video and text – including long form articles. With the rollout, Sky becomes […]

Snapchat signs up TV partners for Discover launch

Mobile messaging service Snapchat has partnered with a host of major TV broadcasters and publishers to launch a new in-app feature called Snapchat Discover. Discover will let Snapchat users explore stories from different professional editorial teams, with media partners already signed up to the service including National Geographic, Vice Media, Yahoo News, Comedy Central, CNN, […]

US cable ‘needs to change’ in face of industry shift

Cable TV is a “legacy model” that is “under threat” meaning US cablers need to change the way they offer television services, according to new research. US mobile technology company Marchex analysed data from over a million calls to to US cable companies to shed light on what consumers are willing to pay for. Noting […]

ESPN mulling OTT service

US sports network ESPN is mulling a plan to provide access to US Major League Soccer coverage over the web without the usual requirement for viewers to prove they have an existing pay TV subscription with an established distributor. In comments reported by Reuters, ESPN president and Disney Media Networks co-chairman John Skipper (left) told […]

Zaslav: Eurosport will be ‘ESPN of Europe’

Discovery Communications’ president and CEO David Zaslav says Eurosport will be “the ESPN of Europe” following the channel operator’s recent investments in the pay net. Discovery acquired a majority stake in Eurosport from TF1 last month, speeding up its scheduled takeover timetable by a year, and Zaslav said yesterday expanding the pan-European net’s revenues by […]

Report: Disney to cut 175 jobs at ABC

The Disney/ABC Television Group is set to lay off around 175 staff across ABC television stations, according to a report. The cuts will come from job cuts and not filling open positions, according to an unnamed source quoted by The LA Times. Most of these cuts will affect local TV channels and staff in technical […]

BT Sport gets UK cable deal

BT and Virgin Media have agreed a deal for the carriage of the BT Sport channels on the UK cable platform. The deal means that BT Sport 1, BT Sport 2 and ESPN will be available to Virgin Media XL TV subscribers at no extra cost, in HD. Customers on other packages will have the […]

Dish Network reaches retrans agreement

US cable platform Dish Network has restored channels from American satellite broadcaster Raycom Media after the two companies agreed a new deal. This comes after Dish cut Raycom’s affiliate channels in 36 markets in yet another stateside disagreement over carriage fees. The news comes in the middle of the much-publicised carriage row between Time Warner […]

Germany’s kids’ channels competition heats up

German children’s TV is set for its biggest shake-up in years, with the Disney Channel set to go free-TV – a move that places it in direct competition with Super RTL, the market leading family network that the Mouse House joint-owns. Jesse Whittock assesses the battle ahead. The pace of change in the German kids’ […]

Sony’s Lubensky to run Lat Am channels

Sony Pictures Television’s Nathalie Lubensky has been upped and will run its channels in Latin America. She was previously a marketing SVP at SPT and before that was at Disney and ESPN where, as senior VP, affiliate marketing, she worked across the company’s free-to-air and pay TV channel brands. At SPT Lubensky will now be […]