Kristin Brzoznowski

ProSiebenSat.1 and Discovery Communications have formed a joint venture to launch a new mobile video and OTT service in Germany.

MTG has increased its ownership in InnoGames, which develops browser and mobile games, to 51 percent.

Expectation, founded by former Endemol Shine Group President Tim Hincks and ex-ITV Director of Television Peter Fincham, has hired Alexia Edwards as COO.

U.K. advertising expenditure grew 3.7 percent to reach £21.4 billion ($27.5 billion) in 2016, according to the Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report, with TV ad spend lifted by growth in VOD revenue.

FremantleMedia has invested in the U.K. indie Duck Soup Films, purchasing a 25-percent interest.

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has extended the deadline for submission of Ofcom's public interest report into the proposed takeover of Sky by 21st Century Fox until June 20.

Working Title Television UK has appointed Mark Freeland as head of television comedy.

Ozge Bulut Marasli has been appointed as the deputy CEO of Dogan TV.

Russian state broadcaster Channel One is no longer planning to air this year's Eurovision Song Contest, after its contestant was barred from entering the host country, Ukraine.

STV is launching the new STV2 channel in Scotland on April 24, with a debut lineup that includes the long-running Irish soap Fair City.