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Oh, Anthony Joshua I’m thoroughly despondent about the upcoming Anthony Joshua vs Jake Paul “fight”, to be broadcast on Netflix. AJ is pretty much my favourite boxer, but this event is symptomatic of the current media era. A YouTuber being paid by Netflix for a fight! Except, it’s also hugely dangerous. AJ is an actual […]
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Last week, I attended Newsrewired. (Indeed, The Addition was a media partner of the event.) You can read my live blog here. It was a great day, with fascinating speakers. AI was the key theme, as it so often is. The difference, though, was that the tone was generally positive. Everyone is fully aware of
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There is growing concern about the WSL TV viewing figures. Per Matt Hughes at The Guardian, meagre 55,900 tuned in to watch Arsenal vs Chelsea on Sky Sports Main Event on Saturday, 8th November. That’s fewer people than were actually in the Emirates Stadium. Viewership on Sky Sports Premier League took the total viewership, monitored
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The MLS on Apple TV will no longer be behind an additional paywall, Paul Tenorio at The Athletic revealed last week. The company confirmed the decision on Thursday. The extra subscription will be scrapped next year. Instead, anyone who has the streaming service will be able to access all the games. The idea, of course,
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BBC Director General Tim Davie and CEO of News Deborah Turness announced their resignations from their positions on Sunday. It follows the latest controversy to take place under their watch – the revelation that a clip of a President Donald Trump speech was misleadingly edited in an episode of Panorama. New Statesman Political Editor Ailbhe Read
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“Streaming Wars” – my second book – is out NOW, everywhere! In the book, I explore the seismic shifts behind the rise of platforms like Netflix, Disney+, Apple TV+, Spotify, Amazon Prime, Paramount+ and more. From Hollywood’s 2023 strikes to the race for sports rights, the growth of ad-supported tiers and the decline of traditional
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CNN has, with much fanfare, launched its long-awaited new streaming service. No “Plus” here. Instead, it’s CNN “All Access”. Mark Thompson, CEO at the network and formerly head honcho at the BBC, told Brian Stelter that “it’s not CNN ‘extra’ or ‘plus,’ it’s CNN.” Given the short-lived disaster of CNN+, it’s no surprise that nobody
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Ofcom has found that the BBC’s documentary Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone breached its rule around misleading the audience.
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We are in week two of the Women’s Champions League. For the first time, it’s all on Disney+ in the UK and other European countries. (Games used to be available for free on DAZN, with some on TNT Sports in the UK.) It’s too early to conclude much about the impact of the competition’s new
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French broadcaster TF1 has announced that it has picked up the rights to the 2027 Men’s Rugby World Cup. The deal also includes the rights to the new Nations Championship competition, which will start next year and take place on a biennial basis. Big French broadcaster shows popular sport in France, in a continuation of
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