TBI’s Top 10 Stories of the Week

Though a combined ‘AT&Warner’ equals a distribution and content monolith, just image the scale if Apple bought Disney or Netflix. CEO Tim Cook this week said tech conglom Apple was “intensely interested” in TV content companies, comments that equated to our number one story of the week.

Our MIPCOM takeaways, Netflix’s latest cash raise plans, a Sony UK sales restructure and ITV’s Brexit-driven job cuts also feature among the week’s most-read news.

Apple CEO claims intense interest in TV, content 

10 MIPCOM trends

Netflix plots $1bn raise for content acquisitions

Job losses as Sony restructures UK-based sales 

ITV cutting jobs amid concern over Brexit 

AT&T, Time Warner deal ‘poses new threat to rivals’ 

UHD net INsight TV to debut in North America

A first-timers (re)view of MIPCOM

Parks: Netflix retains OTT top-spot in the US

In-demand chart: Hungary (October 16 – 22, 2016)