More Music Rights Being Sold

Nashville, Tenn.-based Concord Chorus is buying London-based Hipgnosis Songs Fund for $1.4 billion. The Fund owns the catalog of music artists such as Neil Young and Shakira.

Concord Chorus (…)

By |April 19th, 2024|0 Comments

Screen Australia and Dynamic TV Launch Scripted Initiative

Screen Australia and Los Angeles-based Dynamic Television have launched the Dynamic Television Scripted Initiative to fund the development of up to four scripted television projects.

The initiative will focus (…)

By |April 19th, 2024|0 Comments

Keshet Acquires New British Royal Family Doc

Keshet International has acquired the exclusive worldwide distribution rights to the documentary “2024: 100 Days That Rocked the Royals” from ITN Productions.

Commissioned by Channel 5 and slated to (…)

By |April 19th, 2024|0 Comments

More Editorial Uproar in U.S. Newsrooms

This time to face uproar is the U.S. National Public Radio (NPR) network, the Washington, D.C.-based radio service mostly financed by grants, donations and public contributions.

NPR’s senior editor, (…)

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Marc Pos Partners with Banijay

Banijay has signed an exclusive global development deal with Dutch creator and producer Marc Pos, through his independent label MPLab.

As the mastermind behind The Traitors (All3Media International), Pos (…)

By |April 18th, 2024|0 Comments

Monte-Carlo TV Fest to Open with ‘The Gray House’

The 63rd Monte-Carlo Television Festival, which will take place June 14-18, 2024, has announced that the limited Republic Pictures series The Gray House from Territory Pictures, Revelations Entertainment and (…)

By |April 18th, 2024|0 Comments

Tit-For-Tat Between The NYT and The WSJ

Lately, ‘The New York Times’ and ‘The Wall Street Journal’ are spending lots of print space on each other.

The WSJ fired its salvo on Saturday, April 13, 2024 with (…)

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NATPE Budapest Unveils Highlights & Key Speakers 

NATPE Budapest has revealed key speakers to lead discussions at this year’s event. In addition, Antenna Studios (part of the Antenna Group), Sony Pictures Television and ZDF Studios are (…)

By |April 18th, 2024|0 Comments

ChaiFlicks Inks Deal with Music Box Films

ChaiFlicks, the streaming platform for Jewish storytelling, has signed a deal with Chicago-based Music Box Films for 15 international films, including Academy Award-winning Ida and Golden Globes-nominated Gett: The (…)

By |April 18th, 2024|0 Comments

ANA Vs. MFA: The Ad Dispute

The U.S. ad industry is railing against the Made For Advertising (MFA) sites that, according to the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), are syphoning off some $10 billion in (…)

By |April 17th, 2024|0 Comments