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DPG Media Goes Streaming-First: Lubach Now Premieres on Videoland Two Hours Before Linear TV
DPG Media Goes Streaming-First: Lubach Now Premieres on Videoland Two Hours Before Linear TV From Monday 31 August, new episodes of the flagship satire show Lubach stream Monday–Thursday at 21:00 on Videoland, two hours before their new 23:00 slot on RTL 4 — the first programme DPG Media, which acquired RTL Nederland in July 2025 and now runs Videoland and the RTL-branded Dutch channels, distributes streaming-first. DPG says the inversion matches shifting viewing behaviour, with much of the show's younger audience already watching on Videoland or YouTube, and is rebuilding the linear late-night schedule around the talkshow Renze.
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FTC Finalizes $930,000 Settlement Over Fake AI Ad-Targeting Claims
FTC Finalizes $930,000 Settlement Over Fake AI Ad-Targeting Claims The FTC voted 2-0 to finalize its consent agreement with Cox Media Group, which pays $880,000, and marketing firms MindSift and 1010 Digital Works, which pay $25,000 each, over the Active Listening product that falsely claimed AI analysed smart-device conversations to target buyers while actually reselling data-broker email lists. Cox Media Group is now under a 20-year compliance order.
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Shapiro at Edinburgh: YouTube Won TV — Now the Phone Is the New TV
Shapiro at Edinburgh: YouTube Won TV — Now the Phone Is the New TV Evan Shapiro published his Edinburgh TV Festival Futureview address, arguing the industry has finally accepted that YouTube is television — bigger on TV screens than all of Disney and reaching more Britons each month than the BBC — just as the next shift arrives: the phone as the primary TV device. The festival made the point institutionally, with YouTube EMEA VP Pedro Pina delivering the MacTaggart lecture and promising a third golden age built on collaboration with UK broadcasters.
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Antenna: Pay-TV Cord-Cutters Flock to Streaming — and 60% Pick Ad-Free Plans
Antenna: Pay-TV Cord-Cutters Flock to Streaming — and 60% Pick Ad-Free Plans Antenna's Q1 2026 data shows former premium pay-TV subscribers are five times more likely than other consumers to sign up for an SVOD within 30 days of cancelling, and ad-free plans account for 60% of their first-month sign-ups. Paramount+ Premium leads cord-cutter penetration at 13.7%, ahead of Netflix Premium at 11.5% and Peacock Premium at 9.5%.
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Nielsen Rewrites the US TV Currency With Seven Simultaneous Methodology Changes
Nielsen Rewrites the US TV Currency With Seven Simultaneous Methodology Changes Nielsen today deploys seven changes to its national Big Data + Panel currency in a single release: wearable-based co-viewing capture, a latency-adjusted universe estimate, a new household demographic assignment model, integrated weighting, Hispanic universe estimation, an ACR monitored-tuning adjustment and householding for one big-data provider. Applied together, the changes make August delivery shifts impossible to attribute to any single fix — forcing buyers to re-verify delivery rather than assume continuity, just as Nielsen's Q2 Gauge puts ad-supported viewing at 71.5% of US TV time and falling.
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Bake Off Lawsuits Put Sky's Culture Under Scrutiny as Its £1.6 Billion ITV Takeover Nears
Bake Off Lawsuits Put Sky's Culture Under Scrutiny as Its £1.6 Billion ITV Takeover Nears Former Love Productions managing director Letty Kavanagh has filed twin lawsuits against Sky, joined by complaints from two other Bake Off veterans, alleging wrongful dismissal and plans to cancel the show's spin-offs after Sky installed new management and agreed to sell Love to ITV Studios for £200 million alongside its £1.6 billion acquisition of ITV's media and entertainment division. Complainants question whether Comcast's US culture fits the expectations of UK broadcasting; Sky rejects the allegations and says it will defend itself robustly.
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Apple TV Raises Prices Again: $14.99 a Month, Triple Its Launch Price
Apple TV Raises Prices Again: $14.99 a Month, Triple Its Launch Price Apple lifted Apple TV from $12.99 to $14.99 per month in the US — its fourth increase in four years — with the annual plan rising from $99 to $119 and Apple One Individual from $19.95 to $21.95. The monthly fee has tripled from the $4.99 launch price of 2019; existing subscribers get roughly 30 days' notice.
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BBC Chief Floats YouTube-Style iPlayer Open to Creators, Curated by a "Public Service Algorithm"
BBC Chief Floats YouTube-Style iPlayer Open to Creators, Curated by a "Public Service Algorithm" BBC director-general Matt Brittin, formerly Google's EMEA chief, told the Edinburgh TV Festival he is considering opening iPlayer to creator-uploaded content under BBC guidelines, curated by an algorithm biased towards public service rather than commercial incentives. No timeline or remuneration model was given, but the remarks extend earlier 2026 moves to host ITV and Channel 4 content and position iPlayer as the UK's streaming front door ahead of the 2027 charter renewal.
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Strongest Bundesliga Season Start Since 2023 Gives RTL's Enlarged Sky an Early Win
Strongest Bundesliga Season Start Since 2023 Gives RTL's Enlarged Sky an Early Win The 2026/27 Bundesliga opener delivered Sat.1 and Sky their strongest league season start since 2023, winning the day in both young and total audiences, with Saturday's coverage also performing strongly for Sky and RTL. It is the first Bundesliga kick-off since Sky Deutschland moved inside RTL Deutschland — the moment CEO Stephan Schmitter had pegged as the enlarged group's commercial day one.
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Dutch Competition Regulator Opens Formal Review of Videoland's €142 Million Viaplay Takeover
Dutch Competition Regulator Opens Formal Review of Videoland's €142 Million Viaplay Takeover The Dutch competition authority ACM has published the concentration notification for Videoland's planned €142 million acquisition of Viaplay Netherlands, giving third parties until 3 September to respond before a nominal four-week ruling period begins. The deal would fold Viaplay's Dutch premium sports portfolio — Formula 1 rights to 2029, Premier League and FA Cup to 2028, Bundesliga and Ligue 1 to 2029, and PDC darts to 2032 — into Videoland.
