AT&T, the owner of HBO and Warner Bros studios, and cable and streaming network Discovery plan to combine their media assets to create a standalone global streaming business.
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Spotify Technology CEO Daniel Ek said he made a bid for London’s Arsenal Football Club that was rebuffed by American billionaire Stan Kroenke.
The SABC has begun warning viewers of its analogue terrestrial television channels that the broadcasts are coming to an end as the country finally moves to digital terrestrial technology.
Verizon Communications has agreed to sell its media unit, which includes Yahoo and AOL, to Apollo Global Management for $5-billion, as it looks to offload its digital media business.
MultiChoice Group, continuing its strategy of cooperating with competitors, on Friday said it has added YouTube to its high-end DStv Explora Ultra personal video recorder decoder.
Google is turning out to be one of the biggest winners of the reopening of trade following the Covid-19 pandemic. By Tae Kim.
Netflix said slower production of TV shows and movies during the pandemic hurt subscriber growth in the first quarter, sending shares of the world’s largest streaming service down 11% on Tuesday.
Showmax, the video streaming platform launched by MultiChoice Group, has cut the price of its mobile-only plan to R39/month, from R49 previously.
The department of communications & digital technologies will conduct public hearings into the draft white paper on audiovisual content services policy framework in April.
The SABC has concluded a lengthy retrenchment programme and will officially have shed 621 jobs, or at least 21% of its workforce, by the end of this month as it moves to avoid the need for further bailouts.