Kristin Brzoznowski

MUNICH: ProSiebenSat.1 Media has created a new segment structure for its digital business, through which it intends to generate revenues of around 1.5 billion euros ($1.7 billion) by 2018.

LONDON: BBC Worldwide has ramped up investment in its Western Europe content sales team, with the creation of new specialist roles and an expanded remit for Executive VP Tobi de Graaff.

LONDON: Bea Hegedus, whose previous experience includes time at MTG's Viasat and Debmar-Mercury, has set up her own entertainment consultancy, Ashgate Media, which has already closed its first deal with dick clark productions.

STOCKHOLM: Modern Times Group (MTG) reported record first-quarter sales, affirming that the company's transformation is "on track."

LONDON: Sky and Sony Pictures Television have reached their first-ever multiyear pan-European movies agreement, covering Sky’s subscription and transactional movie services in the U.K., Ireland, Germany, Austria and Italy.

LONDON: As part of an extended partnership, BBC Worldwide will invest in Original Talent, the newly created parent company for both Cuba Pictures and Curtis Brown, taking a 10 percent stake.

The number of homes paying for IPTV in Western Europe overtook pay satellite TV ones in 2015, according to a new Digital TV Western Europe Forecasts report. IPTV subscriptions are expected to increase by nearly 7 million (up by 27 percent) between 2015 and 2021. IPTV revenues will reach $5.77 billion in 2021, up by $1.2 billion.

LONDON: A number of new senior appointments have been made across ITV Studios and ITV, including Polly Hill joining the network commissioning team as head of drama.

LONDON: BBC Three has ordered a further two seasons of the comedy Cuckoo from Roughcut TV.

CANNES: Polish broadcaster TVN is gearing up to launch the original documentary series (L)egend, about the Legia Warsaw football team, on its OTT platform, player.pl.