Global TV Stories You Should Know: 06/11/2025

Here are the stories that should be on your radar

Here are the global TV and streaming television stories that should be on your radar for Wednesday, June 11th, 2025:

UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 On Course To Reach $100 Million In Media Revenue (Sportcal)
One month out from the tournament, GlobalData’s sport data team estimates that media rights revenue for the UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 national teams’ competition has hit $99.54 million, an increase of 142% from the 2022 edition (€37.5 million; $41.03 million).

WBD Sees Record Audiences For Roland-Garros (Advanced-Television)
Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) has reported that its coverage of Roland-Garros 2025 resulted in a record-breaking edition with more fans across Europe (excluding France) streaming action from the tennis Grand-Slam than ever before.

Netflix Co-CEO Greg Peters Calls UK Production Ecosystem A Great Example For U.S. (Deadline)
“We’ve invested a lot here is because there’s incredible infrastructure, there’s incredible talent, and there’s a great production incentive model. So everything is in place to make this ecosystem really, really work. And I think that that’s a great example for the United States.”

Vincent Cassel To Star In Netflix’s Next Big French Movie, ‘Quasimodo’ (Variety)
Set in Paris on the eve of the July Revolution in 1830, the epic movie reimagines the life of the man who inspired the fictional character of Quadimodo, a disfigured man who as the bell-ringer for Notre Dame cathedral in Hugo’s “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.”

MultiChoice Still Bleeding DStv Subscribers, But It’s No Longer Technically Insolvent (IT Web South Africa)
Over this period, MultiChoice says the group lost 2.8 million active linear subscribers and had to absorb a R10.2 billion negative impact on its topline due to local currency depreciation against the US dollar. For the year ended 31 March, the company reveals that linear subscribers were down 1.2 million or 8% year-on-year (YoY) to 14.5 million active subscribers, with the loss evenly split between South African (600 000) and Rest of Africa (600 000).

AMC Networks Secures Multi-Territory Agreement With M7 Group (Broadband TV News)
AMC Networks International Central and Northern Europe (AMCNI CNE) has secured a significant multi-territory agreement with M7 Group, owned by Canal+, one of Europe’s largest pay-TV providers. The multi-year extension covers the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania, and gives distribution for AMCNI’s entire pay-TV channel portfolio in each country.

Global TV Producers On Navigating Trump’s Tariff Storm: “Ignore the Distractions” (Hollywood Reporter)
TV producers have some useful advice on how to navigate a global entertainment industry threatened by Donald Trump’s tariffs war that appears drawn from a world leaders’ manual on how to survive an Oval Office ambush.

Hong Jin-kyung 'Swears On Daughter’s Life' To Deny Political Bias In Red Sweater Controversy (KoreaJoonAng Daily)
Celebrity entertainer Hong Jin-kyung again addressed accusations of political bias, "swearing" on her daughter's life that her red dress was not meant to endorse the conservative party — or anyone in particular.

Turkish Court Issues Arrest Warrant For Owner Of Pro-Opposition TV Channel (Arab News)
An Istanbul court has issued an arrest warrant for the owner of a television channel aligned with Turkiye’s main opposition party on charges of bid-rigging, the prosecutor’s office said late on Tuesday. The arrest warrant for Cafer Mahiroglu, owner of Halk TV, was issued as part of an investigation into an alleged criminal organization suspected of rigging public tenders by bribing public officials.

NEM: Europe’s Audiovisual Future: Do We Have The Necessary Conditions To Succeed? (Broadband TV News)
Chris Marcich, CEO, Croatian Audiovisual Centre, President, Association Of European Film Agency Directors and President, Agicoa said he didn’t see Croatia featuring on a list of countries benefitting from increased investment. “We have almost no, no benefit from, from the Directive, at least not in terms of investment,” he said during Europe’s Audiovisual Future: Do We Have The Necessary Conditions To Succeed?