Global appoints STV boss Simon Pitts as new chief amid boardroom reshuffle March 6, 2024 Global Media Group has appointed Simon Pitts, former STV boss, as its new chief, effective from the first quarter of 2025.
Cinema spending soared last year thanks to these six blockbusters – but one disappointed March 5, 2024 UK cinema operators received a boost from spending in 2023 thanks to a year of silver screen blockbusters, according to data from Lloyds Bank.
TalkTV follows Piers Morgan to Youtube after failing to win eyeballs on the box March 5, 2024 TalkTV is bidding farewell to traditional television and moving online as it struggles to win over eyeballs that are glued to rival GB News.
GB News losses widen to £42m amid Farage, Rees-Mogg, Johnson wages and Ofcom probes March 5, 2024 GB News is grappling with a flurry of setbacks including plunging losses, a swathe of ongoing Ofcom investigations and a hefty wage bill.
Reach: Mirror, Star and Express publisher warns of print and digital ad revenue drop March 5, 2024 Within the decline in revenue, it said print fell to £438.8m down two per cent, while and digital dropped a worrying 15 per cent.
Lucy Frazer warns The Telegraph over leadership changes which breached government order March 4, 2024 The Telegraph recently announced the appointment of Anna Jones, former chief of Hearst Magazines UK, as the group's chief executive.
Will Love Island creator ITV be a tough watch for investors next week? March 2, 2024 Analysts expect a three percent decline in ITV's sales to £3.6bn and a sharp drop in pre-tax profit of over 40 per cent to £272m.
ITV sells Britbox stake to BBC for £255m to fund share buyback March 1, 2024 ITV has offloaded its entire 50 per cent stake in the digital subscription streaming service, BritBox International, to BBC Studios.
Meta faces European complaints over ‘gargantuan’ data collection February 29, 2024 Consumer groups have criticised Meta's ad-free offerings, which they say leaves users with an “unfair ‘pay-or-consent’ choice” in the face of mass data collection.
As The New York Times and OpenAI go to war, smaller publishers are being left behind February 28, 2024 As the landmark legal battle between The New York Times and OpenAI continues, the fate of smaller publishers is being ignored.