10 Global TV Stories You Should Know: 06/17/2024

Here are the stories that should be on your radar

Here are the global TV stories that should be on your radar for Monday, June 17th, 2024:

Corus CEO Doug Murphy Exits After Losing Warner Bros. Discovery Channels (The Hollywood Reporter)
On Monday morning, Corus said Murphy took “an early retirement,” effective immediately, and will be replaced as co-CEOs by Troy Reeb and John Gossling. The move follows Corus on June 10 being told by WBD that, starting in January, major lifestyle brands like HGTV, Food Network, Cooking Channel, Magnolia Network and OWN would go to rival Rogers as part of a new multi-year licensing deal.

DStv Owner Bets The Farm On Showmax (My Broadband South Africa)
MultiChoice plans to grow Showmax’s subscribers and revenue by 1,800% over the next four years and make it the top streaming service in Africa. MultiChoice released its annual results for the 2024 financial year recently, which many analysts described as atrocious and disastrous.

Germany: 77% Use Video Streaming Services Weekly (Advanced-Television)
Nielsen has released a study on media consumption in Germany. The report looks at the current trends in usage habits across video, TV and audio, as well as social media platforms, trust in advertising and trust in news reporting.

Kuaishou Secures Paris 2024 On-Demand, Short-Form Media Rights (Sportcal)
Chinese short-form video content creation and social platform Kuaishou has secured a selection of Chinese broadcast rights to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games from state media company and rightsholder China Media Group (CMG).

Antiques Roadshow Pulled From BBC One Schedule As Major Change Confirmed (Express UK)
Antiques Roadshow is a huge success for the BBC and has been running since 1979 - but the show has been forced to move to a different channel in a schedule shake-up.

In A First, Disney+ Hotstar Launches 'Pause Ads' Feature For CTV Feed (Business-Standard)
Disney+ Hotstar on Monday launched the ‘pause ads’ feature, for its connected TV (CTV) feed. Disney+ Hotstar is the first platform in the country to launch this feature for CTV feed. This initiative aligns with the platform’s strategy to offer unique advertising solutions.

TF1+ Rolls Out In Belgium, Luxembourg (Broadband TV News)
TF1 group’s free streaming platform, TF1+, will launch in Belgium and Luxembourg on June 18th. The TF1+ app will be available across all screens (mobile, tablet, PC, smart TV) across a range of devices (Google TV, Android TV, Samsung, LG, Hisense, Sony, Philips, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, etc).

BBC And ITV’s Euro 2024 Line-Up Exposes Football Punditry’s Big Identity Crisis (Independent)
Televised football punditry often feels like wallpaper or the music of Kenny G: you can be stuck in a room with it for hours, and it’ll fail to make even the slightest impression. Quietly, though, it is every bit as important to the UK’s footballing culture as the lads actually out there hoofing a ball around on the pitch. Unless you’re a pure-bred lower-league idealogue whose conception of football begins and ends at the turnstiles of your local ground, everybody must sometimes rely on TV to curate their football experience – not just to watch it but to frame it and explain it.

Ireland: Online News Consumption Overtakes TV (Advanced-Television)
More people in Ireland consume their news online than through any other medium, including television. This is the first time that news online has become more popular than television news in Ireland according to the annual Digital News Report Ireland.

Discovery NZ Discusses Exit Of Reality TV Channel Bravo (Business Desk New Zealand)
Challenger TV brand Bravo's financial statements say Discovery New Zealand wants out of a joint venture with NBC Universal, but the subsidiary claims it is still negotiating its future. The Warner Bros subsidiary, which has already dramatically exited its Newshub offering, is a half shareholder in Bravo. It bills itself as “the ultimate free-to-air and true crime destination”. A spokesperson for the Australia and NZ division of Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) said it is still negotiating.