Bicoastal Media

digitaltveurope | May 01, 2020

The merger, first unveiled last year, will create a new joint venture company that is made up of NENT’s satellite/broadband TV operations and Canal Digital, Telenor’s satellite pay TV offer. NENT and Telenor will each hold 50% of the shares of the new company, which is expected to create substantial synergies. The transaction is due to close on 5 May. The newly formed company will launch its name and corporate brand following closing and will be headquartered in Stockholm and ...

nasdaq | April 27, 2020

Chicken Soup For The Soul Entertainment Inc's 9.75% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Stock (Symbol: CSSEP) will trade ex-dividend, for its monthly dividend of $0.2031, payable on 5/15/20. As a percentage of CSSEP's recent share price of $23.48, this dividend works out to approximately 0.86%, so look for shares of CSSEP to trade 0.86% lower — all else being equal — when CSSEP shares open for trading on 4/29/20. On an annualized basis, the current yield is app...

MEDIA AND BROADCASTING

ViacomCBS | August 03, 2021

ViacomCBS Inc. today announced multi-year distribution agreements with Cox Communications to continue delivering leading content from ViacomCBS’ extensive portfolio of broadcast, entertainment, news and sports networks, including BET, CBS Sports Network, CMT, Comedy Central, Logo, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount Network, Pop TV, SHOWTIME®, Smithsonian Channel, Telefe, TV Land and VH1. The deal also includes retransmission consent of CBS broadcast stations in Los Angeles. In ...

venturebeat | January 30, 2020

The Nintendo Switch is one of the fastest-selling consoles ever. As part of the results for its fiscal Q3, the company announced today that it has sold 52.48 million Switch systems as of December 31. That puts its worldwide pace ahead of the PlayStation 4. PS4 recently surpassed 106 million systems sold since its November 2013 debut. But Switch launched in March 2017. And when you line both consoles up side by side, Nintendo’s hybrid console was faster to reach 50 million systems sold. Swi...