Podcasts are growing in cultural and political influence, but growth in podcast advertising spend remains slow. Publishers and platforms are looking to address this by expanding beyond audio, with a greater focus on creators and video content, according to WARC Media’s Global Ad Trends report titled Podcast media sets sights on video boom. Alex Brownsell, […]

SES is buying rival Intelsat for $3.1 billion (€2.99bn) in a deal announced last April. The purchase had been expected to be completed in the second-half of 2025 once all regulatory hurdles had been overcome. Now, however, SES wants to wrap the agreement by June as it cites “fast-moving industry developments” and competitive threats from […]

Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News has captured nearly three-quarters of all US cable news audiences in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s election victory. Fox News’ daily audience has lifted by 40 per cent since November 5th, while viewership of MSNBC and CNN have dropped 38 per cent and 27 per cent respectively, according to Nielsen. Trump’s […]

The new Donald Trump administration, and a new chair at the FCC (Brendon Carr), is increasingly expected to permit operators such as Starlink and AST SpaceMobile to begin transmitting and receiving calls direct-to-devices and including consumer smartphones. As Armand Musey (partner at consultancy Summit Ridge Group) suggested during the recent 13th Americas Spectrum Management Conference […]

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel has announced that she intends to depart the FCC on January 20th 2025. Her decision follows the announcement by President-elect Donald Trump that he intends to nominate Brendan Carr to the role when he takes office. “Serving at the Federal Communications Commission has been the honour of a […]

Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), operator of the social media platform Truth Social, has successfully launched an app for Android mobile devices to access the Truth+ TV streaming platform. Now available in the Google Play Store, Truth+ offers TV programming to Android users focusing on news, entertainment, faith-based content, weather, documentaries, children’s content, and […]

The defamation trial against Newsmax Media is underway with allegations the news outlet damaged Smartmatic by broadcasting false claims that the voting machine company helped steal the 2020 US presidential election. Based in Wilmington, Delaware, the Court has begun selecting jurors who will determine whether Newsmax purposely avoided the truth about the 2020 election to […]

Data presented by Samba TV reveals that 4.1 million US households watched the second GOP debate on September 27th, down 39 per cent from the first debate when 6.6 million US households tuned in. On average, households watched the second debate for a total of 59 minutes – also down (-24 per cent) from the […]

A federal judge has thrown out Donald Trump’s $475 million (€430.5m) defamation case against CNN, in which the former US President claimed the network’s description of his election fraud theory as the “big lie” had associated him with Adolf Hitler. Judge Raag Singhal, who was nominated by Trump in 2019, said CNN’s words were opinion, […]

Since Chris Licht took over the reins at CNN for Jeff Zucker in May 2022 through to the present day, the news network’s average daily reach decreased by 7 per cent year-over-year according to Samba TV. Meanwhile, viewership during this same time period (May 2022 – June 2023) with regard to the network’s competitors, including […]