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Spain: Pay-TV Thematic Channels Take the Viewing Lead for the First Time
Spain: Pay-TV Thematic Channels Take the Viewing Lead for the First Time Pay-TV thematic channels have become Spain's most-watched TV offering this month with a combined 12.4% audience share, edging out Atresmedia's Antena 3 at 11.9% and public broadcaster RTVE's La 1, according to Barlovento Comunicacion. It is the first time the combined pay-TV group has outperformed the country's leading free-to-air networks.
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Attest: Americans Spend More Time Watching YouTube Than Live TV
Attest: Americans Spend More Time Watching YouTube Than Live TV Attest's 2026 Attention Economy Report finds Americans spend 1 hour 46 minutes a day with YouTube versus 1 hour 31 minutes with live TV, with 90% accessing YouTube on a typical weekday against 73% for live TV. Combining YouTube, TikTok and social video, daily viewing reaches 3 hours 54 minutes - outstripping the 3 hours 20 minutes spent on live TV and subscription streaming combined.
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Disney Signs Creator Content Deal With Dhar Mann Studios, Starting With 20-Episode Order
Disney Signs Creator Content Deal With Dhar Mann Studios, Starting With 20-Episode Order Disney struck a deal with Dhar Mann Studios - the YouTube-native producer with 27.5 million YouTube subscribers, 170 million followers and nearly 300 million weekly views - beginning with a 20-episode order of youth- and family-oriented programming for Disney platforms. It follows last month's Disney-TikTok partnership and deepens Disney's push to bring creator-economy talent inside its own services.
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CNBC UK Selects MediaKind's Beam for Cloud-Connected Live News Operations
CNBC UK Selects MediaKind's Beam for Cloud-Connected Live News Operations CNBC UK picked MediaKind's Beam edge-processing platform to modernise contribution and distribution for its live news operation, moving feeds between distributed bureaus, studios and playout environments with low latency. Beam's software licensing model decouples processing from specific servers, letting the broadcaster run right-sized off-the-shelf infrastructure at each location.
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Main Street Sports Group Sues Comcast and Charter Over Unpaid RSN Licensing Fees
Main Street Sports Group Sues Comcast and Charter Over Unpaid RSN Licensing Fees Main Street Sports Group, former operator of the FanDuel-branded regional sports networks, filed suits in Delaware Superior Court alleging Comcast and Charter underpaid licensing fees for NBA and NHL games, with Charter also accused of underreporting subscriber numbers. Both distributors terminated their affiliation agreements in May 2026 as Main Street wound down operations after losing its league rights.
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Disney Offers Voluntary Early-Retirement Packages to Senior Staff
Disney Offers Voluntary Early-Retirement Packages to Senior Staff Disney is offering enhanced early-retirement packages to high-ranking employees as part of a cost-cutting drive, with chief people officer Sonia Coleman telling staff the company is focused on meaningfully reducing costs while investing in content, technology and experiences. The move follows CFO Hugh Johnston's pledge of further labor and SG&A reductions and CEO Josh D'Amaro's public dissatisfaction with a stock down 11% over the past year.
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Altice France Q2 Revenue Falls 8.7% as Subscriber Losses Continue
Altice France Q2 Revenue Falls 8.7% as Subscriber Losses Continue Altice France, SFR's parent company, posted Q2 revenue down 8.7% to 2 billion euros, with fixed down 5.4%, mobile down 9.3% and EBITDA falling 12.9% to 681 million euros as subscriber numbers declined again. The slide comes as the heavily indebted group works through the planned carve-up of SFR among rival French operators.
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Yospace Launches Ad Presentation Solution to Scale Non-Linear Ad Formats
Yospace Launches Ad Presentation Solution to Scale Non-Linear Ad Formats Yospace, the Bertelsmann-owned dynamic ad insertion specialist and a Bedrock technology partner, released an Ad Presentation solution that lets broadcasters deploy IAB-standardised non-linear formats - pause ads, overlays, squeezebacks and L-banners - at scale across live, VOD and FAST, whether delivered via SSAI or SGAI. The plug-in works inside existing streaming workflows, uses real-time device intelligence to match formats to player capabilities, and will be demonstrated at IBC 2026.
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Netflix Premieres GTA VI Extended Look in Exclusive Six-Hour Window
Netflix Premieres GTA VI Extended Look in Exclusive Six-Hour Window Rockstar Games premiered Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look - 26 minutes of in-game PlayStation 5 footage - exclusively on Netflix on August 27 at 3 p.m. ET, six hours before its release on YouTube and Rockstar's own channels. The first-of-its-kind partnership puts one of entertainment's biggest franchises in front of Netflix's 325 million-plus subscribers ahead of the game's November 19 launch.
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Paramount Reportedly Readies $8 Billion Sale of Turner Networks to Salvage Warner Bros. Discovery Deal
Paramount Reportedly Readies $8 Billion Sale of Turner Networks to Salvage Warner Bros. Discovery Deal Paramount is reportedly preparing to sell Warner Bros. Discovery's Turner networks - CNN, TBS and TNT - for around $8 billion to resolve the state antitrust lawsuits blocking its $110 billion acquisition, with investment bankers also circling HGTV, Food Network and New Line Cinema. California Attorney General Rob Bonta has demanded structural changes before settling, Paramount says it is open to a structural agreement, and Iowa and Montana have publicly sided with Paramount against the 12-state coalition.
