[Medianews] Time spent online 'overtakes TV' among youngsters

Time spent online 'overtakes TV' among youngsters Young people are spending more time playing and socialising online than watching television programmes, according to an annual survey tracking children's media behaviour in the UK. http://www.bbc.com/news/education-35399658 ___

[Medianews] James Murdoch Returns as Sky Chairman

http://www.wsj.com/articles/sky-appoints-james-murdoch-as-chairman-1454053661 The Wall Street Journal Sky PLC on Friday appointed James Murdoch as chairman, four years after he stepped down from the role amid a phone-hacking scandal engulfing News Corp's U.K. newspaper business. The move to ele

[Medianews] Content owners ‘will go D2C as cord-cutting bites’

http://tbivision.com/news/2016/01/content-owners-will-go-d2c-cord-cutting-bites/540952/ TBI Vision Cord cutting in the world’s high-income pay TV markets will have a direct impact on the content spend, meaning channels and content producers will increasingly look to other routes to reach consume

[Medianews] Analysts split over TV future

http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/analysts-split-over-tv-future/5099473.article?blocktitle=LATEST-MULTIPLATFORM-NEWS&contentID=935 Broadcast The future of television continues to divide opinion, with two studies published this week painting very different pictures of the industry in the UK. Res

[Medianews] Travel Channel names VP, programming

http://realscreen.com/2016/01/28/travel-channel-names-vp-programming/ Realscreen Former Zodiak New York exec Neil Regan has been appointed VP of programming at Scripps Networks Interactive-owned net Travel Channel. In his new post, Regan will be charged with overseeing the development and produ

[Medianews] Too Much TV? Here Are All of the Prime-Time TV Series That Aired in 2015 — All 1,400-Plus of

http://www.tvweek.com/tvbizwire/2016/01/too-much-tv-here-are-all-of-the-prime-time-tv-series-that-aired-in-2015-all-1400-plus-of-them-ranked-by-total-viewers/ Too Much TV? Here Are All of the Prime-Time TV Series That Aired in 2015 — All 1,400-Plus of Them — Ranked by Total Viewers (TV Week) Jan

[Medianews] Discovery is getting 60 million Facebook video views per month (Digiday)

http://digiday.com/agencies/digiday-podcast-carrot-creative-mike-germano/ Sahil Patel Facebook video publishers have a proven formula that works on the platform: focus on short, silent and text-heavy videos that open on a striking visual to capture a viewer's attention before they scroll past. B

[Medianews] Snapchat Is Slowly but Surely Letting More Brands Run Long Video Ads (Adweek)

http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/snapchat-slowly-surely-letting-more-brands-run-long-video-ads-169261?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Adweek_Newsletter_2016152907&utm_source=sailthru&utm_term=AWK_TodayTech Universal, Paramount promote full-length trailers By Lauren Johnson January 28, 2016, 3:2

[Medianews] Amazon’s Streaming Customers Nearly Double in One Year (VideoInk)

http://www.thevideoink.com/breaking-news/amazons-streaming-customers-nearly-double-in-one-year/#.Vqtwx_krKih Todd Longwell | @ToddLongwell1 / Jan 28, 2016 Unlike Netflix, Amazon has a massive ecommerce business, so news about its streaming service wasn’t a headline item in its Q4 2015 earnings, r

[Medianews] How Vice Is Trying To Reinvent The TV Ad Model (Ad Age)

http://adage.com/article/media/vice-reinvent-tv-ad-model/302388/?utm_source=mediaworks&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=adage&ttl=1454619254 Viceland Will Have Fewer Commercials, More Branded Content By Jeanine Poggi. Vice is looking to woo marketers to its new cable channel with the promise of

[Medianews] FCC plan aims to stir up set-top box market

FCC plan aims to stir up set-top box market By Brian Fung The Washington Post The nation’s top cable regulator has rolled out a plan that would force pay-TV companies like Comcast and DirecTV to loosen their hold on the set-top box market. If it works, it could potentially save consumers m

[Medianews] FilmOn buys digital movie, TV storefront CinemaNow (SNL Kagan)

FilmOn buys digital movie, TV storefront CinemaNow Online TV company FilmOn TV Networks acquired CinemaNow LLC, a provider of transactional digital storefronts of premium film and TV content, from Regent Equity Partners. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. CinemaNow will con