Telegraph Sale, Mega Merger & World Cup Ready
Maggie Brown and Juan Delgado join Matt Deegan
After three years of false starts and failed bids, the Daily Telegraph finally has a new owner - and it’s not who anyone expected. German publishing giant Axel Springer has swooped in with a £575 million cash offer, beating the Daily Mail to claim one of Britain’s most storied newspapers. Media historian Maggie Brown explains why this deal might actually stick and what it means for press diversity in the UK.
We’re also digging deeper into the Banijay and All3Media $8 billion mega-merger now the dust has begun to settle. Juan Delgado, CEO of Footballco - the world’s largest football media company - joins to discuss whether Netflix might be circling this newly-created production behemoth, and what life inside an $8 billion content empire actually looks like. Also on the show, the BBC’s new podcast deal for indies takes its first practical steps with Elis James and John Robins going commercial, FIFA approving hydration break ads for the World Cup, and how brands and publishers should be preparing for the biggest sporting event of the year now we’re 100 days out.
Plus in the Media Quiz, we play “Long Lost Revenue” - reuniting media companies with their complicated relationships with money, Long Lost Family style, from GB News’s narrowing losses to Podbean abruptly killing dynamic ad insertion in Europe.
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