Entries from 2024-03-01 to 1 month

National CineMedia Sees a Post-Bankruptcy Recovery on the back of the Box Office Recovery

Despite their overall revenue remaining relatively stable, the beleaguered National CineMedia group has managed to grow its fourth-quarter profit off the back of a strong Q4 performance from the domestic box office despite recent bankruptc…

Paramount Global Offloads Viacom18 Stake

At a time when much speculation hangs over the company as a whole, Paramount Global has now sold its 13% stake in Viacom18 to Mumbai-based Reliance Industries, its major shareholder. Whatever this means for the future plans around Paramoun…

A&E Networks Make a Content-Fueled Bid for Advertising Revenue

It is no secret at this point that ad-supported streaming tiers have become the revenue lifeline streaming didn’t realize it needed. For many streamers, this shift into ad-supported programming has been coupled with an overall reduction in…

AMC Weighs In on the Licensing and Distribution Debate

Are we entering the era of the ‘great rebundling’? It is a question we have seen play out in several forms over the 2023 year, and it is clearly one weighing on the mind of AMC Networks’ CFO, Patrick O’Connell, too. Brandon Blake, our ente…

Walmart Seeks to Dethrone Roku with its Own Smart TV Range

While we have seen much jockeying for limited subscriber market share in the wider streaming space, Roku has continued to slowly build on its FAST TV presence, boosted mainly by its range of Smart TV and set-top box options. It seems there…