News

World Rugby has extended its partnership with Host Broadcast Services (HBS) to produce the host broadcast for the men’s and women’s Rugby World Cup events until 2029.

FC3 (the Framestore and Company 3 Group) has appointed David Kassler as Group Chief Executive Officer.

Lisa Opie has been confirmed as the Chair of industry skills body ScreenSkills, to support “sustainable careers” in the UK’s film and TV industry.

CNN is starting to ask some of its visitors to pay $3.99 a month for access to its news website. The news organisation said it is introducing the paywall to help pay for CNN’s journalism around the world.

The Film and TV Charity has released headline data that shows mental health is worsening compared to 2022 survey results. The data comes from more than 4,300 film, TV, and cinema workers responding to its 2024 Looking Glass Survey, the industry’s biggest and most robust dataset on this topic.

Communications giant AT&T has agreed to sell its remaining 70% stake in US pay-TV firm DirecTV to private equity outfit TPG Partners for $7.6bn.

The Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) has appointed Kari Grubin to succeed Seth Hallen as President.

Caretta Research report highlights the vital role of Livepeer’s distributed network in helping streaming services use real-time interactivity as a route to profitability.

Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) has deployed a new AI-powered captioning solution in the US that utilises Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform.

Virgin Media O2 CEO Lutz Schüler is to take a leave of absence after being diagnosed with cancer.