Mansha Daswani

Jeffrey Schlesinger, who spent more than two decades running international television activities at Warner Bros., has set up Former Bros. Media, a new strategic advisory company.

Revenues at AMC Networks rose 3 percent to $712.2 million, with the company ending Q1 with 9.5 million streaming subscribers.

Paramount+ is set to arrive in the U.K. and Ireland on June 22, with South Korea, Italy, Germany, France, Switzerland and Austria also planned for this year and an Indian launch slated for 2023.

Direct-to-consumer revenues at Paramount Global were up 82 percent in Q1, but overall revenues at the company slipped by 1 percent to $7.3 billion.

First-quarter revenues at NBCUniversal rose 46.6 percent to $10.3 billion, driven by ad gains from the company's coverage of the 2022 Beijing Olympics and the NFL Super Bowl.

Warner Bros. Discovery reported first-quarter revenues of $3.16 billion, a 13 percent gain, delivering a net income of $456 million.

Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) has unveiled its senior leadership team under Gerhard Zeiler, president of international.

HBO and HBO Max ended Q1 2022 with 76.8 million subscribers worldwide, a 12.8 million year-on-year gain.

Netflix's global subscriber base fell from 221.84 million in Q4 last year to 221.64 million in Q1 2022, while year-on-year revenue growth slipped to 9.8 percent.

Hugh Marks, former CEO of Nine Entertainment, and Carl Fennessy, co-founder of Endemol Shine Australia, have launched Dreamchaser, a Sydney-based full-service production and distribution studio with the backing of Endeavor Content.