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Meta’s Facebook and Instagram appeared to be experiencing widespread technical problems Tuesday, with thousands of users logging errors in accessing the social media services. Users reported problems including being logged out of Facebook — and when they attempted to log back in saw an error message such as, “Something went wrong. Please try again.” According to monitoring service Downdetector, error reports spiked just after 10:30 a.m. ET Tuesday. As of 11 a.m., Downdetector had received more than 500,000 error reports. In addition, Instagram users reported that their feed was not refreshing. The outage also extended to Meta’s Messaging platform and Threads, its Twitter-like app launched last year.

Nelson Peltz‘s Trian Partners, which is agitating to get two seats on Disney’s board, on Monday released a lengthy white paper analyzing the Mouse House’s financial performance — and suggesting strategic fixes. The recommendations, according to Trian, are aimed at turning around Disney‘s total shareholder returns, which have trailed most of its peers (except Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Global), according to the white paper. Trian is urging Disney shareholders to vote for its two board nominees — Peltz and ex-Disney CFO Jay Rasulo — at the company’s April 3 shareholder meeting. Disney opposes the candidates put forward by Trian and another activist firm, Blackwells, as lacking “the appropriate range of talent, skill, perspective and/or expertise.” “For more than a year, Trian has described its thoughts on strategies and goals, some of which Disney has now implemented, such as reducing excess costs, reinstating a dividend, and making the Parks business a bigger part

French media giant Canal+ has increased the price it is offering to buy DStv owner MultiChoice by about 19% to R125 per share. The companies said in a joint statement on Tuesday morning, a day after Canal+ said it was granted an extension to April to make a mandatory offer, that the European company had also been granted exclusivity as the company considers its offer . An earlier non-binding offer of R105 per share, was rebuffed by the board of Africa's biggest pay-TV operator in February as too low. This effectively values MultiChoice at over R55 billion on the JSE. "Once the mandatory offer is made, the independent board of MultiChoice will be constituted and will, after receipt of the independent expert's opinion, provide its opinion and recommendation on the mandatory offer," the parties said in the statement. Last week, the Takeover Regulation Panel (TRP) ruled that Canal+ had to make the offer "immediately" after concluding SA's res

Tickets on eVOD Since eVOD inception in the market eMedia has been looking to build up the local portfolio of the streamer with Housewives and uMbali. They've even collaborated with Prime Video on Atlantis and Umbrella Men with their next project being Tickets. Young lovers Crystal and Grant dream of getting out of the Cape Flats. When they find Crystal's Mom's winning Lotto ticket, they see it as their ticket out of the Flats. Do they run away or do they stay? Since last year, the film was exclusive to Prime Video now it will be making their freemium debut on eVOD from March 8. It starred Danny Ross, Robyn Rossouw, Monique Rockman, Waldemar Schultz, Hein de Vries and Boudine Ballem.  A rebroadcast of Nurses launches on Telemundo international  During the month, Telemundo further reduced prime time with My Heart Beats For Lola and The Chosen Granddaughter following the end of Cennet: The Power Of Destiny. Now there's reports going around that in

Shareholders are referred to the announcement released on the Stock Exchange News Service on 28  February 2024, informing the market of a ruling by the Takeover Regulation Panel (“TRP”) that  required Groupe Canal+ SA (“Canal+”) to make an immediate mandatory offer to all ordinary  shareholders of MultiChoice in terms of section 123 of the Companies Act, No. 71 of 2008.  MultiChoice notes the announcement made today by Canal+ that the TRP has granted it an extension  of 25 business days, until 8 April 2024, to make the required mandatory offer.  The MultiChoice board of directors (“the Board”) will continue to act in the best interests of the  Company and its shareholders. Shareholders will be updated should there be any further  developments. The Board accepts responsibility for the information contained in this announcement as it relates to  the Company and confirms that, to the best of its knowledge and belief, such information relating to  the Company is true and that t

In 2021, SABC and eMedia Investments extended their agreement which led to additions like SABC Sport and SABC's 19 radio stations on the Openview platform. There was also promises for two entertainment channels to accompany the existing SABC 1-3. These channels were also slated to launch within that year but since then SABC and eMedia Investments had gone rogue that doesn't mean there wasn't any noteworthy material. During that long arrival of more TV channels, SABC Lehae was born which serves as the second news channel by the public broadcaster following SABC News. It offers news in indigenous languages by that I mean similar to most channels rehash content from SABC 1-3. This was followed by SABC Variety which serves as a revival/replacement to the defunct SABC Encore brand on DStv. Unlike its previous iteration, SABC Variety also serves as a catch-up channel especially with sporting events. For a while now, there has been a lot of commotion as to whether

France24 is a French based news station operated by the local government. Based in France, it would offer news and current affairs aimed at the French market while as catering to other languages such as Spanish, English and Arabic.  Since 2017, France24 was currently functional on the Openview platform after eMedia Investments silently axed the British based brand BBC News. It garnered backlash from various consumers with some not viewing it in the same league as the former BBC channel. This past week, a viewer had browsed the TV Guide for France24 and noticed that the channel's programme guide ends by 3 March while other channels still provide a full week line-up. It led to further speculation that eMedia Investments could be looking to axe France24. In eMedia Investments last financial records, they promised to launch a few more channels before 31 March 2024. None of which materialized in 2023 with the company down to a few weeks before the start of a new cycle. Wi

BBC Studios is taking full ownership of BritBox International, acquiring ITV’s 50% share for a cash consideration of £255 million. Launched by BBC Studios and ITV in 2017, British specialist streaming service, BritBox International delivers British scripted content to North America and select markets. The service now has over 3.75 million subscribers and has an enterprise value of around £500 million. As part of the transaction, BBC Studios has extended its licensing agreements with ITV “ensuring that programming for BritBox International will continue to represent a wide range of British content.” ITV-owned BritBox UK is unaffected by the deal and will still feature BBC content as part of separate long-term agreements. Tom Fussell, BBC Studios CEO said: “This is an important acquisition for us. We are taking full ownership of a successful, growing service we know well and that fits with our stated ambition to double the size of our business. Britbox International has Briti

During the year, it was reported that WWE would be exiting linear television by 2025 with Raw, SmackDown and NXT alongside premium live events like WrestleMania and SummerSlam would be streaming exclusively on Netflix with more countries to be added soon. This has boosted the media's interest on the streamer with some curious about what other projects the brand has in the pipeline. One of the brands I wouldn't really be shocked to see get purged soon would be Nickelodeon. Nickelodeon is an international children's brand operated by Paramount Global. Since it's inception had brought animated shows like SpongeBob SquarePants, The Loud House and Legend Of Korra alongside live-action shows like Drake & Josh, iCarly and The Thundermans. As some readers are aware, Netflix and Nickelodeon have co-produced shows like Pinky Malinky, Glitch Techs and the upcoming live-action series for Avatar: The Last Airbender. On top of distributing films like Invader Zim: