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The government is to begin recruiting a replacement for Ofcom chair Lord Grade who is preparing to leave the job in April next year, according to a Sky News report.

Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS) is to hold a second round of its Framing the Future programme, which aims to increase the number of women in technical broadcast roles, for the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026.

Polling organisation YouGov has published data shedding light on how frequently users of four major streaming platforms – Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, Netflix and Apple TV+ - tune in.

“Industrial scale theft” of video services, especially live sport, is in the ascendance, according to a new report by Enders Analysis.

Netflix Chairman and Co-Founder Reed Hastings has joined the board of AI firm Anthropic.

A coalition of leading industry players has launched an action plan to support the growth and development of programmatic TV across the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain.

Media veteran Maria Kyriacou has been confirmed as the new Chairwoman of the supervisory board of German broadcasting group ProSiebenSat.1.

The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC)’s Board of Governors has elected Mandy Walker as President, making her the first woman to lead the organisation.

Due to popular demand, IBC has extended the deadline for submitting entries for the IBC2025 Innovation Awards by one week until Friday, 6 June.

Georgia Brown, the former Head of Amazon Studios Europe, has been appointed as Chief Content Officer of podcast subscription platform Podimo.