Kristin Brzoznowski

GENEVA: The EBU has revealed the nominees for the 55th annual Rose d’Or Awards, which span six categories for television and online video: reality and factual entertainment, game show, comedy, sitcom, entertainment and, new for 2016, drama series.

BEVERLY HILLS: WME-IMG is set to acquire the MMA organization UFC in a deal valued at $4 billion.

A new Strategy Analytics report finds that prices for pay TV are holding steady in most countries, though the introduction of "skinny bundles" is driving the minimum cost down in places such as Canada and Denmark.

MUNICH: Red Arrow Entertainment Group has expanded its footprint in digital content production and English-speaking markets through an investment in the Los Angeles-based producer Band of Outsiders.

TEL AVIV: Keshet International (KI) has licensed the hit scripted series The A Word to be adapted in Greece.

LONDON: Louise Pedersen has been tapped as CEO of all3media International, marking her return to the company after departing in January 2015 for Playground Television.

LOS ANGELES: Paul Franklin has been appointed president of CBS Television Distribution (CTD), overseeing all operations for CBS’s domestic syndication company, while Armando Nuñez, who has led both CTD and CBS Studios International, will now focus solely on the overseas business.

The number of worldwide pay-TV subscribers reported by the informitv Multiscreen Index rose by 1.68 percent (6.90 million) in the first quarter of 2016. The latest figures show 60 of the 100 leading pay-television services in the latest Multiscreen Index report with net subscriber gains in the quarter.

According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, worldwide revenue from mobile video will reach $25 billion by 2021. The growth in mobile video revenue will be driven by advertisers seeking to reach an increasing audience of users that are consuming video on their smartphones and tablets.

BUDAPEST: NATPE Budapest held its final day of the 2016 market and conference today, with positive sentiments all around that the return to the Hungarian capital proved successful.