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CNN is starting to ask some of its visitors to pay $3.99 a month for access to its news website. The news organisation said it is introducing the paywall to help pay for CNN’s journalism around the world.

The Film and TV Charity has released headline data that shows mental health is worsening compared to 2022 survey results. The data comes from more than 4,300 film, TV, and cinema workers responding to its 2024 Looking Glass Survey, the industry’s biggest and most robust dataset on this topic.

Communications giant AT&T has agreed to sell its remaining 70% stake in US pay-TV firm DirecTV to private equity outfit TPG Partners for $7.6bn.

The Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) has appointed Kari Grubin to succeed Seth Hallen as President.

Caretta Research report highlights the vital role of Livepeer’s distributed network in helping streaming services use real-time interactivity as a route to profitability.

Google has begun rolling out updates to Google TV — including the new Google TV Streamer - which allows viewers to control their smart home from their TV.

Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) has deployed a new AI-powered captioning solution in the US that utilises Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform.

Virgin Media O2 CEO Lutz Schüler is to take a leave of absence after being diagnosed with cancer.

Disney+ has launched a password and account-sharing crackdown, rolling out a new “paid sharing” to users around in many parts of the world.

BBC Studios Productions has hired Channel 4’s former head of youth and digital Karl Warner.