This is the user guide video for North Korea’s Manbang IPTV box. I am not making it up.
Turn on the subtitles and auto translate it to English. You’ll kack yourself. 
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El grande de la televisión española.
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The ultimate hell - trapped in a reality show for almost 3 months. Though for some influencer-wannabes it could be utopia.
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poor guy . he was supposed to be teaching them english. the reason why he was chosen becuase either the produducers or dicrectors thought he had the cute factor
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Merde sacrée!
That’s a big one, yet, it won’t be the last.
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Another European media merger.
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ViacomCBS seemingly still interested in FTA.
Viacom Buys Chilean TV Network
ViacomCBS Networks International has closed previously announced acquisition of Chilevisión from WarnerMedia. The acquisition includes Chilevisión’s free-to-air television network, which is Chile’s most watched television channel this year to-date. The investment also includes Chilevisión’s library of content spanning multiple genres including sports, entertainment, and news, as well as its production capabilities. Chilevisión will fall under the leadership of Juan Acosta, President of ViacomCBS International Studios and Networks Americas. “Our investment in Chilevisión strategically expands ViacomCBS’ global ecosystem, strengthening our position as a leading Spanish-language content producer,” said Raffaele Annecchino, President and CEO, ViacomCBS Networks International.
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More acquisitions at ViacomCBS.
Wonder if they’d ever consider officially opening or acquiring local studios in Australia? Surely they’d love to own everything from end to end, from formats, production, licensing etc.
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What’s the main type of content they tend to buy?
I’m sure Australia doesn’t have what their looking for.
After 84 years (slight exaggeration there), Brazilian Network TV Globo have finally debuted their new identity, which has been teased since last year, due to Globo Corporate gradually rebranding all services with the new proprietary typeface, “Globobrand”. The outgoing logo has been in use since 2015.
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UPDATE 28/12
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I didn’t know France had TV licence fee like Britain and Japan.
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thanks @JohnsonTV, a most interesting read.
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I’ve always liked a lot of CBC’s output. They seem to me to run a little bit leaner than the ABC/SBS overall, on radio too e.g. fewer channels.
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Their move a while back to focus in heavy on Canadian content, and ditching a lot of syndicated US content seems to have turned out well for them. They still do fairly poorly as a national broadcaster compared to how well something like TVNZ or ABC do - but it does what a “national” broadcaster needs to do and is a big point of difference over the other networks that are very sim-sub focused and thus basically US network feeds in prime time.
They waste a lot on French content, particularly needing Radio-Canada outlets in provinces with next to no French speakers really is a hit to their finances, which means running the English side cheap to balance it.
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