Exclusive: Channel 4 set to win race to show England football matches
Channel 4 is poised to trump ITV with a bid for England’s football friendlies in a bold bet on live sport as it battles privatisation. The Telegraph…
Freeview adds Ukraine news channel to counter Putin’s propaganda
A Ukrainian rolling news channel leading a fightback against Kremlin propaganda about the Russian invasion is now available to British viewers. Ukraina 24 is now broadcast on…
Piers Morgan vows to ‘cancel the cancel culture’ on new TV show
Tom Newton Dunn, the Times Radio presenter, will host a news programme, while Kate McCann is joining the channel as political editor from Sky News. TalkTV will…
RT stripped of UK licence by Ofcom
Nadine Dorries, the Culture Secretary, tweeted that “it was right” for Ofcom to take action. “The outlets’ lies and propaganda, where victims are cast as the aggressors…
RT stripped of UK licence by Ofcom
Nadine Dorries, the Culture Secretary, tweeted that “it was right” for Ofcom to take action. “The outlets’ lies and propaganda, where victims are cast as the aggressors…
Whitehall shambles leaves the emergency services with a communications crisis
Police chiefs and emergency services workers may be following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with a sense of déjà vu. Battlefield commanders in Ukraine are using antique radio…
Netflix raises prices again
Netflix has raised prices for the second time in just over a year, taking the price of its most expensive subscription to almost £16 a month. The…
£46m invested in GB News to challenge BBC, owner’s accounts reveal
The owner of GB News has invested nearly £50m in its attempt to rival the BBC and Sky News. All Perspectives has been drawing on £46.5m worth…
Britain’s richest man bankrolls $3.7bn losses for sports streaming venture Dazn
An attempt by Britain’s richest man, Sir Leonard Blavatnik, to conquer the sports TV market has racked up another year of heavy losses to reach an accumulated…
SFO opens criminal probe into collapse of Arena Television
The Serious Fraud Office has opened a criminal investigation into Arena Television, a collapsed broadcaster that worked on the Euro 2020 football tournament and Glastonbury. The white…
Russia Today faces ‘swift action’ as Moscow mulls BBC retaliation
The exchange comes after Sir Keir Starmer told the Commons that RT was the Russian leader’s “personal propaganda tool” and he could see no reason why it…
Britain’s richest man pours another $4.3bn into sports streamer Dazn
Sir Leonard Blavatnik has agreed a $4.3bn (£3.2bn) refinancing of his loss-making attempt to conquer sport television, Dazn, despite its failure to hit the target in a…
BT backs tech guns-for-hire with £30m stake
BT has sunk £30m into a start-up offering tech guns-for-hire to clients seeking to overhaul their systems, as it steps up it own modernisation efforts. The telecoms…
Blow for BBC’s battle against streaming as boss of YouView quits
A British broadcasting venture that has helped defend the BBC from the rise of Netflix has been left rudderless after its chief executive was poached by a…
Vodafone should take inspiration from the Victorians and lead a 5G revolution
Organisations are discovering that private networks allow them to implement clever new ideas and applications much more easily, and this is a burgeoning growing industry. For the…
Vodafone raises prospect of abandoning Britain with Project Galaxy overhaul
Swedish investor Cevian Capital has been in discussions with Vodafone executives about upgrading performance and improving its languishing share price. The changes to the Global Enterprise division,…
How a secret TV job gave Peaky Blinders emperor his big break
More worrying now are the signs that the pandemic’s streaming surge are beginning to tail off after the army of rivals challenging Netflix took a chomp out…
Chinese cyberattack targets journalists at Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp has been hit by a Chinese cyberattack targeting journalists. The owner of the Wall Street Journal said network systems containing personal data on…
Country Life publisher suffers another revolt over boss’s £40m pay package
The publisher of magazines including Country Life and The Week has suffered its second consecutive pay revolt over plans for a £95m bonus scheme. Future’s pay plans…
Failure to win BT Sport leaves Dazn’s float plans up in the air
After courting BT since the middle of last year, Sir Leonard Blavatnik’s sports streaming empire had been expecting to seal a deal for the telecoms giant’s sports…
BT shuns billionaire to pursue sports deal with Eurosport owner
On BT Sport, chief executive Philip Jansen said: “We had two very good external options, but in the final analysis it made sense for all our stakeholders…
BT shuns billionaire to pursue sports deal with Eurosport owner
On BT Sport, chief executive Philip Jansen said: “We had two very good external options, but in the final analysis it made sense for all our stakeholders…
Fans race to download Wordle while puzzles are still free
Puzzle fans are racing to download Wordle after it emerged they could save over 2,000 days’ worth of the game’s current incarnation, as speculation mounts that its…
Top investor backs Vodafone boss after activist investor swoops in
One of Vodafone’s biggest shareholders has backed chief executive Nick Read’s plans to overhaul the telecoms giant despite pressure from an activist investor. Abrdn, the fourth-largest investor,…
Owner of Country Life and The Week braces for new revolt over £95m bonus scheme
The first vesting date is in September 2023. The hurdle means Future would have to create more than £4bn in extra shareholder value to trigger the maximum…