Offering a sign of synergies to come, NBCUniversal and Sky have announced a unified expansion of the company’s AdSmart suite of tech-enabled ad solutions. It is the first joint advertising effort since Comcast acquired Sky last year.

Among AdSmart’s capabilities are using set-top box data to help advertisers optimize t…

Sky boss Jeremy Darroch is pleased to have the sale to Comcast behind him so that the company can focus on future product innovations such as a move into AI and a virtual reality push.

Darroch was speaking at the Deloitte & Enders Media and Telecoms Conference, months after Comcast’s $40 billion takeover of the Europea…

A day after a federal appeals court backed its $81 billion acquisition of Time Warner and the Department of Justice said it would abandon its legal challenges, AT&T renewed its vow to scrutinize its balance sheet to create more financial maneuverability.

Speaking today at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Teleco…

Comcast CEO Brian Roberts said the forthcoming launch of NBCUniversal’s ad-supported streaming service will not prompt the kind of pullback from third-party licensing that has been signaled by Disney and, to a lesser extent, WarnerMedia.

The executive made the comments during an appearance at Morgan Stanley’s Technolog…

UPDATED, 5:12: PM: The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals today rejected Comcast and Charter’s motion to dismiss Byron Allen’s multibillion-dollar civil rights lawsuit against them. Read the filing here and details of the case below.

Here is a statement Allen released after the ruling:

Comcast and Charter are wrong by pursui…

Sky is to roll out Comcast's Xfinity xFi in Italy and bring its voice platform to its pay service Sky Q – two of the first examples of working together with its new owner.

The European pay-TV giant is 15 weeks into its new ownership arrangement and Sky CEO Jeremy Darroch used his parent company's financial results call…

NBC Universal will continue to sell shows to rival platforms and streamers after it launches its own SVOD service but has warned that some of its hits are currently "under monetized" online.

Steve Burke, CEO of the Comcast-owned Hollywood studio, said that that ad-supported streaming service, which will launch in…

Comcast beat Wall Street estimates in the fourth quarter of 2018 as it reported financials for British pay-TV giant Sky for the first time.

The conglomerate reported earnings per share of 64 cents with revenue growing 26% to $27.8B for the quarter and $94.5B for the year. Comcast CEO and Chairman Brian Roberts called i…

Sky has invested in video software company Synamedia, whose latest tool is an anti-password sharing service for pay-TV companies.

The Comcast-owned pay-TV operator has taken a stake in the business alongside majority shareholder Permira.

Synamedia, which is chaired by former NDS CEO Abe Peled, works with companies incl…

UPDATED With a statement from Verizon

Verizon Fios has decided to drop Fuse, the multicultural network partially owned by Jennifer Lopez.

Fuse will disappear from Verizon’s Fios service at the end of the day, representing the second such loss of carriage in a week. Cable giant Comcast reached a similar decision…

Telemundo parent Comcast has agreed to pay a fine of $495,000 after an investigation by the FCC found that some of the Hispanic broadcaster’s local stations had pre-empted children’s programming in favor of sports.

That action was deemed out of bounds under the federal Children’s Television Act of 1990.

The FCC said it…

UPDATED with statement from Comcast: In a statement provided to Deadline, Comcast said in regards to dropping Fuse: “We regularly evaluate our channel lineups and sometimes make changes to ensure we're offering customers a wide variety of the content that they want to see at the best value. Comcast carries over 160…