Media News and Headlines
Media News and Headlines
beIN Sports has appealed a Paris Commercial Court ruling that ordered it to pay roughly €15 million to LFP Media for its Saturday Ligue 1 rights package. The broadcaster had withheld €4.71 million from each of three €18 million installments, arguing that contractual restrictions reduced the package’s value. After settling the amount, beIN Sports is taking the case to the Court of Appeal, adding to an ongoing legal fight with Canal+ and the Ligue de Football Professionnel. Meanwhile, Ligue 1 will shift its domestic broadcast to the new Ligue 1+ streaming platform next season.
The 2026 analysis of over 200 B2B journalist queries shows a fundamental shift in public relations strategy. CEOs remain valuable for brand narratives, but functional experts—product managers, growth marketers, and client specialists—are now preferred for niche coverage. Reporters also seek...
Preston Community Radio 23, operating as Juice Radio and now rebranded Beat 103, has been found in breach of multiple Ofcom licence conditions for the third time. Ofcom’s review revealed the station’s output consisted almost entirely of nonstop music, idents...
Zefr announced it has earned Media Rating Council accreditation for its content‑level brand safety and suitability labeling and reporting on English‑language in‑stream YouTube videos across desktop, mobile web, mobile app, and connected TV. The accreditation marks the first MRC‑approved third‑party...
Paramount Skydance is pursuing the acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery’s portfolio, which includes the news network CNN. CNN projects $1.8 billion in revenue for 2026, making it a valuable asset. Critics warn that CEO David Ellison’s close relationship with former President...
Indian YouTuber Ashish Chanchlani’s five‑episode horror‑sci‑fi series Ekaki has amassed nearly 150 million YouTube views. The show, his debut as writer‑director, was produced on a budget roughly 10 percent of a typical Bollywood film yet delivered production values comparable to a Rs 300‑400 crore...
Cromwell Media’s 101.3 WMCI celebrated its 25th annual radiothon, raising over $134,000 in a two‑day broadcast. The fundraiser pushed the station’s cumulative contributions for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital past the $2 million mark. Hosted by veteran morning personalities Bub McCullough and Renee Fonner, the...
Fourthwall announced a search for a Head of Creator Support to lead and scale its creator assistance function. The role combines strategic oversight of people, processes, and tools with hands‑on ticket resolution, emphasizing an AI‑first mindset. Candidates must master Zendesk,...
The CFP Board unveiled a new "Dive" television spot as part of its "It’s Gotta Be a CFP" campaign, allocating a $27.1 million media budget for 2026. The spring phase, worth $14.6 million, runs March 9‑May 17 and leans heavily on broadcast, cable, streaming...
Omnichannel advertising platform Azerion has created a new executive position, appointing Roxanne Harley as Vice President of Strategy & Growth. Harley, who previously headed UK growth, will now oversee strategic planning, product development, go‑to‑market roadmaps, and the company’s creative studio,...
Artificial intelligence firms have trained on vast amounts of journalism without paying publishers, prompting a global push for statutory licensing. Europe is leading the effort, with a parliamentary vote slated for March 10 on a regime that would require automatic fees...
As newsroom positions dwindle, journalism schools are redesigning curricula to teach students how to operate as independent creators. Programs such as The New School’s newsletter course, Harvard Extension’s content‑creator class, and St. Bonaventure’s new content‑creation major embed entrepreneurship, digital design, and...
Major League Rugby (MLR) has entered a multi‑year partnership with OS Studios, appointing the media firm as its chief engine for broadcast production, social content, and fan‑engagement strategy. The collaboration leverages OS Studios' expertise in gaming, music, and creator culture...
The article argues that advertising has lingered in an endless apology cycle and should adopt a "revenge arc"—a bold, corrective narrative that turns criticism into opportunity. It cites recent campaigns where brands responded to backlash with assertive messaging, generating higher...
GB News has appointed Ross Sergeant as chief revenue officer to bridge the gap between its rapidly expanding audience and advertising sales. Sergeant arrives from Allwyn, where he served as global media director, and brings experience from Asahi, Diageo and...
Gravity Media has launched a remote production gallery in Covent Garden to support ITV Studios’ MultiStory Media output, delivering 900 hours of live daily programming across shows like Lorraine, This Morning and Loose Women. The facility features a 360‑degree LED set, 13...
ESPN’s March 3 spring‑training game between Team USA and the San Francisco Giants attracted 677,000 viewers, the network’s most‑watched spring‑training broadcast in a decade. The matchup lifted ESPN’s 2026 spring‑training average to 580,000, a 101 % increase over 2025, according to Nielsen. The surge...
Foos Gone Wild and Combate Global announced a new amateur MMA series called Foos Fighting Championship, debuting March 26 in Burbank, California. The event will be broadcast live in Spanish on EstrellaTV and in English on Foos Gone Wild’s YouTube channel,...
Picnic has launched Quality Video, an extension of its PIQ platform that evaluates open‑web video inventory based on real‑time behavior rather than static DSP labels. The solution measures signals such as pause on scroll, simultaneous playback, auto‑play and audio settings,...
Nano Interactive unveiled NanoQ, an agentic AI media planner that automates audience creation and activation. Built on the company’s intent data and the continuously refreshed Intent Library, NanoQ translates natural‑language briefs into custom and off‑the‑shelf segments. In internal tests the...
Cumulus Media filed a motion to dismiss all three of Nielsen's counterclaims stemming from an antitrust lawsuit, labeling them retaliatory tactics. The counterclaims—breach of contract, unfair competition, and declaratory judgment—rely on a single email allegedly sharing Nielsen data with Eastlan...
Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the shutdown of two long‑standing outreach outlets. The bimonthly magazine Taiwan Review, in print since 1951, ceased publication on March 4 and will fully terminate staff contracts by June 30. Its sister platform, the multilingual news...
The article argues that radio sales managers waste leverage by managing hope instead of measurable activity. It introduces "Time Spent Selling" as the true super‑power—focused, high‑quality interactions rather than idle research or optimistic forecasts. Managers should track and coach consistent,...
Sportz Interactive (SI) has teamed with the WRC Promoter to launch an interactive Rally Predictor on Rally.TV, built on SI’s proprietary Predictor Engine. The tool lets fans forecast stage results, driver performance and head‑to‑head battles throughout the World Rally Championship...
wedotv has introduced its documentary channel wedotv BIG stories on Freeview UK, occupying channel 275, while wedotv movies now broadcasts as a full DTT channel on slot 98. Both services are built on Synapse’s FAST architecture, server‑side ad insertion and...
Axel Springer agreed to buy the UK’s Telegraph for £575 m, ending a three‑year ownership limbo and fending off a Daily Mail bid. The deal marks the first change of hands in the paper’s 168‑year history. Meanwhile, Indonesia announced a phased...
Saudi Arabia’s creative economy is rapidly moving from the periphery to a strategic pillar of Vision 2030, driven by growth in advertising, gaming, design and content production. The sector is thriving amid a layered, globally‑connected Saudi society that demands more nuanced...
BBC Studios is set to debut "Crookhaven", a teen‑drama adaptation of J.J. Arcanjo’s novels, on March 22. The series follows a secret school for young crooks who compete for the Crooked Cup while confronting the mysterious threat known as The Nameless....
Nine Entertainment saw its shares plunge 6.97%, wiping out over $95 million in market value as the ASX200 opened down nearly 4% on an oil‑price shock. The broader Unmade Index fell to a record low of 378.3 points, reflecting heightened cost...
Senior YouTube executives will appear before the UK Culture, Media and Sport Committee on March 10 to answer questions about the platform’s role in children’s television and video consumption. Ofcom data shows YouTube is now the most‑used app or site among...
The article argues that ad‑tech’s reliance on granular identity data created an inherent privacy risk, a point long raised by privacy advocates. Real‑time bidding and massive data extraction expose location and behavioral signals to a sprawling ecosystem of unknown parties....
John Oliver used a ten‑minute segment on Last Week Tonight to publicly lobby for a guest role on a daytime soap opera, citing Stephen A. Smith’s recent cameo on General Hospital as inspiration. He outlined specific character traits—ridiculous name, dramatic...
Stephen Colbert accepted the Writers Guild’s Walter Bernstein Award, honoring creators who confront social injustice, but he rejected any implied parallel to the blacklisted screenwriter. He emphasized that the 1950s Hollywood blacklist was an industry‑wide pact, not a law, and...
A federal judge declared Kari Lake's actions at the Voice of America illegal, nullifying layoffs that affected more than 1,000 journalists and staff. Former U.S. trade chief Robert Lighthizer stepped down from the board of Trump Media & Technology, raising...
Sky Media has named eBay as the headline partner for the UK launch of Saturday Night Live, bringing the American comedy brand to British screens on March 21. The deal centers on eBay Live, the platform’s interactive shopping experience, with eBay‑branded...
X is piloting a new ad format that automatically attaches product‑mention links to user posts, as seen with a Starlink CTA under a tweet. The format blends ads with organic content without compensating users, aiming to avoid skewed incentives. X...
TVNZ’s latest six‑month results reveal 1News At Six as the clear leader across both its TVNZ+ streaming app and traditional broadcast, attracting 726,000 viewers and nearly 20 million streams. News programmes such as Seven Sharp and Breakfast also rank among the...
Foxtel Media announced that 39% of advertisers for the 2026 NRL season are brand‑new, joining returning partners such as Westpac, McDonald’s and Toyota. New sponsors include Red Bull, Bunnings, Club 4×4 Insurance and Youi, while programmatic inventory expansion lets small regional...
Acast has inked a multi‑year agreement to host The Aunty Donna Podcast and the newly created Grouse House Podcast Network on its platform. The deal consolidates Australia’s leading independent comedy collective under one roof just as Aunty Donna prepares to...
Julianne Nicholson’s Emmy‑winning turn in HBO’s Mare of Easttown makes it a must‑watch for fans of Hulu’s Paradise. Both series are whodunits set in tight‑knit Pennsylvania suburbs, but Mare adds a deeper emotional layer through authentic small‑town drama. The HBO...
Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern urged treating social media platforms as publishers rather than neutral hosts, citing their role in amplifying harmful content. She highlighted the Christchurch mosque shooting livestream as a stark example of platform-facilitated harm and...
Pan Am, a 1960s‑era airline drama starring David Harbour as MI6 agent Roger Anderson and Margot Robbie as flight attendant Kate, debuted on NBC in 2011. The visually lavish series ran only 14 episodes, earning three Emmy nominations for music, special...
Australian designer and environmental advocate Jamie Durie has signed a partnership with global streaming platform LeadStory to produce original lifestyle programming. The new series will focus on sustainability, architecture and design, drawing on Durie's decades of experience in television and...
Apple TV+’s *Monarch: Legacy of Monsters* season 2 quickly rose to become the second‑most‑watched show on the platform in the United States, according to FlixPatrol, trailing only *Hijack* and *Shrinking*. The series introduces a new sea‑monster antagonist, Titan X, while keeping the...
‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ has been renewed for a second season, slated for release next year. The upcoming season will see Peter Claffey and Dexter Sol Ansell return as Dunk and Egg, while Lucy Boynton, Babou Ceesay and Peter Mullan...
The original Gilligan’s Island pilot, titled “Marooned,” was shot in November 1963 but ran into a cascade of setbacks, including the JFK assassination, a national mourning period that closed Honolulu harbor, and a two‑minute shortfall. Creative clashes between creator Sherwood Schwartz,...
The Outdoor Media Association (OMA) has launched the upgraded Move measurement platform, replacing Move 1.5 as the official out‑of‑home (OOH) standard from March 16. Move aggregates data from over 180,000 sites, modeling a synthetic audience of 2.2 million Australians based on 5,000...
CBS’s Yellowstone spin‑off *Marshals* will weave subtle references to unresolved plotlines from its parent series, such as Kayke’s brother Jamie’s “disappearance” and Kayke’s choice to spare his father’s killer. Showrunner Spencer Hudnut says the series will use these Easter eggs...
Damien Lodes began his tenure at CBS News Texas KTVT Dallas‑Fort Worth as a meteorologist in February 2026. He arrives from a senior role at AccuWeather, where he contributed to the national Storm Team delivering coast‑to‑coast severe‑weather forecasts. Previously, Lodes...
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation launches ABC National Forum, a live, moderated discussion program airing tonight from its Ultimo studios. Hosted by David Speers, the inaugural episode focuses on Jewish Australians and the aftermath of the Bondi terrorist attack. Unlike the...
