Mansha Daswani

The British government has cleared Comcast's proposed acquisition of Sky while making the 21st Century Fox offer for the European pay-TV giant contingent on the sale of Sky News.

Mediapro has picked up the rights for French Ligue 1 football from 2020 to 2024, snatching the games away from Canal+.

Just 28 percent of British television episodes over the last ten years were predominantly female-written, according to a new report backed by the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain (WGGB).

Reporting improved ad revenues in its key markets of Germany, France and the Netherlands, RTL Group said overall Q1 revenues were stable at 1.4 billion euros ($1.7 billion), while profit was down 19 percent to 111 million euros ($131 million).

Revenues at ITV plc gained 5 percent in Q1, boosted by the performance of its production and distribution division and online revenues.

In a deal worth 19 billion euros ($22.7 billion), Vodafone is acquiring Liberty Global's operations in Germany, Hungary, Romania and the Czech Republic.

First quarter revenues at ProSiebenSat.1 Media dipped by 3 percent to 881 million euros ($1 billion), while adjusted EBITDA gained 7 percent to 200 million euros ($238 million).

Comcast Corporation has made a formal offer to acquire European pay-TV giant Sky, valuing the platform at $31 billion.

Sky's revenues for the nine months ended March 31, 2018, rose by 5 percent to £10.1 billion ($14.3 billion), with operating profit up 22 percent to £857 million ($1.2 billion).

Fox Networks Group in the U.K. was among the companies that received “unannounced inspections” yesterday by the European Commission, which is looking into potential anti-competitive behavior in the sports media rights sector.