Sky TV has filed High Court action, alleging the media companies breached the pay TV firm's copyright in the its use of rugby video footage.

GOP insider Priebus and combative Bannon represent opposing forces. It's populism vs establishment in his own cabinet.

Village Roadshow is known for its measures to stop piracy, but its latest efforts have made an absolute mockery of its harsh stance.

COMMENT: The Commerce Commission indicating that it may decline the NZME and Fairfax merger is hardly what the leaders of either company would have wanted.

The decline comes after the Commerce Commission released a preliminary decision against the planned merger between NZME and Fairfax NZ.

The Commerce Commission draft decision rejecting a proposed NZME/Fairfax merger is "short-sighted", a media commentator says.

COMMENT: Telco is keen to make the move into entertainment.

A business claiming it is "backed up" by MediaWorks is taking on Sky and entering the streaming box market.

TVNZ's top earner is getting even more this year with a six-figure boost to his pay packet.

AT&T's $85.4b purchase of Time Warner could escape regulatory scrutiny from a key player in telecommunication mega-deals.

Sky Network Television chief John Fellet has hit out at submissions opposing a merger with Vodafone.

The company reported total revenue of $US2.29 billion and 3.57 million new streaming subscribers.

MediaWorks says a merged Fairfax/NZME news operation should have to sell one or other of the New Zealand Herald or Stuff websites.

The Herald newspaper's readership is up 3.1 per cent and nzherald.co.nz has seen a 25 per cent audience lift year on year.

COMMENT: Hal Crawford is now driving broadcaster MediaWorks' news operation.

An email sent to Netflix customers advises of the price per month increase.

The Guardian's deep cost-cutting drive is causing British staff working in the US operation to return home.

How can Disney transition to a world where mobile devices, not TV screens, dominate news and entertainment?

COMMENT: Growth in online advertising is creating more demand for moving pictures.

On the Demand.film platform, one person requests a screening at a local cinema and then promotes the screening through social media.

Fairfax and NZME are seeking Commerce Commission authorisation to merge operations in New Zealand.

COMMENT: Film Commission chief Dave Gibson is half-way through what he has insisted was a single five-year term.

Media companies NZME and Fairfax NZ have released further details of their proposed merger to the NZX this morning.

The husbands of the Real Housewives of Auckland are power players in banking, property, marketing and finance.

Four new digital stations including popular radio brands Radio Hauraki, Newstalk ZB, Coast and The Hits are available on iHeartRadio New Zealand.

NZME is celebrating a magnificent seven awards for excellence in marketing and advertising innovation.

Most politicians have long taken the advice of the lobbyists and kept their noses out of regulating the media business, or giving

MediaWorks has an exclusive deal with Vevo that allows them to sell advertising around video content that globally attracts 18.7 billion views.

High-profile telecommunications entrepreneur Jack Matthews pledges to turn around MediaWorks' flagging fortunes.

Selected articles from the New Zealand Herald will soon be available in Chinese on a new website.