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Bell Media and Tubi, Fox’s ad-supported streaming service, have announced a long-term strategic partnership across ad sales and content distribution, including Canadian titles from Bell Media’s on-demand catalogue and FAST channel lineup. The partnership also includes plans to co-develop original content for distribution on Tubi globally, across Bell Media platforms in Canada, and through Sphere Abacus, Bell Media’s international content distribution company. https://lnkd.in/eHRYVStG

For the past few years, there’s been one particularly consistent trend from Nielsen’s monthly ‘The Gauge’ reports, which measure the share of total US TV set viewing which is captured by each individual streaming service. While the majority of services have seen their share wax and wane – trending towards growth in 2024 but largely tailing off this year – YouTube has marched inexorably onward. Having become the largest individual service as measured by Nielsen in 2022, it’s continued to extend its lead since then. https://lnkd.in/e-KkTFfW

Liberty Global has caused ITV shares to take a dive after selling half of its stake in the UK broadcaster. https://lnkd.in/e2vf_Yac

Canal+ has moved to strengthen the management of its African operations by appointing Thomas Follin as Chief Diversification Officer. https://lnkd.in/eqH-up7Y

Telia’s sale of its TV and media business to Schibsted has not prevented it from bucking the global market trend of declining pay-TV numbers. https://lnkd.in/ecVpYWjQ

Broadcast TV advertising is expected to fall in Germany this year, but the shortfall will be offset by growth in streaming advertising. https://lnkd.in/ew6_FAMU

Polish TV viewing rebounded in September as new-season schedules pushed average daily screen time to 3 hours 38 minutes, up 7 minutes on August (3:31) and in line with September 2024, according to Nielsen’s The Gauge. https://lnkd.in/eHmy7xuc

Satellite operator Eutelsat’s legacy video business took a hit in its fiscal first quarter from the impact of the removal of sanctioned Russian channels as well as the ongoing decline in the satellite video business. https://lnkd.in/eMNbBtqP

The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency, which oversees their £5bn Project Gigabit broadband roll-out and the Shared Rural Network (SRN) programme for upgrading 4G coverage in remote areas, has today published their combined annual progress report and accounts for the period 1st April 2024 to 31st March 2025. This also includes some data on the level of fraud in their programmes. https://lnkd.in/e95PSvGN

Internet provider and network builder CommunityFibre, which has deployed their 5Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to cover 1.342 million homes (inc. 185k businesses within 200 metres of their network) – mostly in London, has today launched a new installation option – “Fibre to your Room“. https://lnkd.in/e3pUpZTB