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RTL Boss Clement Schwebig on the Hybrid Future of European TV: “Scale Is Essential”
RTL Group’s chief executive, Clement Schwebig, has set out the German media giant’s strategy of pursuing scale and a hybrid model of free-to-air, pay TV and streaming to compete with global platforms such as Netflix and YouTube. His comments come amid a wave of consolidation among Europe’s traditional broadcasters, who are grappling with declining advertising…
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Progressives could score a huge Wisconsin win Tuesday. Some national figures don’t want to touch it.
Francesca Hong hasn’t drawn big name backers like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to her gubernatorial campaign, unlike other candidates this cycle.
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New EU border checks sees waiting times DOUBLE at major airports
New EU border checks have caused waiting times to double at major airports, as travellers face lengthy queues under the bloc’s newly introduced entry system. The change affects passengers travelling to and from EU countries, with airports struggling to process arrivals under the revised procedures. The issue is significant because it disrupts summer travel for…
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Heathrow says need for expansion ‘clear’ as it loses title of Europe’s busiest airport
Heathrow has lost its long-held title of Europe’s busiest airport to Istanbul, prompting the west London hub to renew its argument that a third runway is urgently needed. The airport said the shift underlines that it is “operating at capacity” and that expansion is essential for the UK to remain competitive, deliver economic growth and…
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Destination unknown – goalkeeper’s 2,000-mile van trip to find new club
An 18-year-old goalkeeper, Milo Beimers, has left Northern Irish club Glentoran to search for a new team by travelling roughly 2,000 miles across Spain and Portugal in a converted van with his father. Beimers, who joined Glentoran aged 13, decided to pursue trials on the continent after finishing his A-levels, describing it as a chance…
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European Broadcast Giant RTL Group Bets on Streaming to Fuel Growth
RTL Group, Europe’s largest broadcaster and parent of production giant Fremantle, has reported strong streaming growth in its first-half 2026 results, offsetting weakness in traditional TV advertising and production. The figures, released on Tuesday, mark the company’s first results since completing its acquisition of Sky Deutschland from Comcast on 1 June, a deal it is…
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Anthropic pledges to embed watermarks to help discern AI slop in sop to EU
Anthropic has said it will embed watermarks in text and files generated by future Claude models released in the EU, as part of efforts to comply with the bloc’s AI Act transparency rules. The company also plans to retrofit watermarking to already-released models during the transition period allowed under EU law, with marking applied globally…
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Premier League 2026-27 preview No 3: Bournemouth
Bournemouth begin the 2026-27 season under new head coach Marco Rose, who succeeds Andoni Iraola following the club’s sixth-placed finish last term. Rose faces significant pressure to build on an impressive campaign in which Bournemouth absorbed player sales worth more than £250m yet remained unbeaten after mid-January, and now prepares the club for its first-ever…
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Amanda Knox in Cartwheel review – rookie standup acquitted of murder tells her story
Amanda Knox, cleared of murdering her roommate Meredith Kercher in Italy in 2007, is performing a new show called Cartwheel at the Edinburgh fringe, using her experience of new motherhood as the framework for telling her story. The show, reviewed at Gilded Balloon Teviot, sees Knox make her debut as a standup, addressing years of…
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Beach where bathers must only speak German sparks racism row
A tourist beach on Germany’s Baltic coast has been accused of racism after organisers implemented a rule requiring bathers to speak only German while in the water, sparking a backlash from visitors and equality campaigners who argue the policy discriminates against foreign tourists and residents. Critics say the measure effectively excludes non-German speakers from using…