{"id":139512,"date":"2025-11-18T09:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T09:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/139512\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T09:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T09:02:07","slug":"fremantle-hit-by-loss-of-americas-got-talent-spin-off-fantasy-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/139512\/","title":{"rendered":"Fremantle Hit By Loss Of ‘America’s Got Talent’ Spin-Off ‘Fantasy League’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFremantle<\/a>\u2019s financials for the first nine months of this year were hit by the loss of America\u2019s Got Talent spin-off Fantasy League<\/a>, according to the just-published RTL<\/a> results.<\/p>\n

\n\tRevenue at the RTL-owned America\u2019s Got Talent and Poor Things maker was down 5.1% to \u20ac1.3B ($1.5B), which RTL put down to \u201clower revenue from the U.S.,\u201d mainly because the same period in 2024 benefitted from the NBC<\/a> spin-off of the long-running hit.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe spin-off, which aired for one eight-episode season at the start of 2024, saw past winners, finalists, and fan favorites from across the franchise compete for the Fantasy League title. It was similar in scope to other spin-offs such as The Champions and All Stars. The show was not made in 2025.<\/p>\n

\n\tOver this nine-month period, RTL said Fremantle\u2019s revenue dip was partly offset by the acquisition of Death in Paradise producer Asacha Media Group, which it bought at the start of 2024 along with 80% of Singapore\u2019s Beach House Pictures for \u20ac200M. But during the past quarter, RTL said there had been \u201clower contributions\u201d from Asacha. Bosses Marina Williams and Gaspard de Chavagnac <\/a>have both exited in the past year. <\/p>\n

\n\tSuccess stories for Fremantle this quarter include Fox\u2019s rebooted Baywatch, Netflix true crime show The Monster of Florence and the new Pandora\u2019s Box format, which has kicked off in three territories. The super-indie also launched an America\u2019s Got Talent FAST Channel. <\/p>\n

\n\tShaky ad market hits profits<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, full-year 2025 profits at RTL have been revised down by nearly 17% due to the struggling advertising landscape.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Bertelsmann-owned content giant downgraded expected full-year profits from \u20ac780M to \u20ac650M, which it put down to the \u201cGerman and French TV advertising markets having not gained momentum in the second half of the year as expected,\u201d despite \u201cgains in TV advertising market share in Germany.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tDue to the flailing ad situation, RTL has shrunk its expected full-year revenue from around \u20ac6.45B to \u20ac6.05B. <\/p>\n

\n\tAlong with \u201clower content revenue from Fremantle,\u201d the advertising hit was blamed for RTL revenue during the first nine months of 2025 falling slightly to \u20ac4.1B. Net debt during the period slid dramatically from \u20ac492M to a rosier \u20ac71M.<\/p>\n

\n\tStreaming revenue for RTL was up 26.6% to \u20ac351M over the nine-month period, driven by more subs, increased subscription prices in Germany and growing advertising revenue on RTL+ in Germany and M6+ in France, the group said.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe period also saw RTL sell its Dutch arm to DPG Media and buy Sky Deutschland, the latter of which should complete next year.<\/p>\n

\n\tBoss Thomas Rabe will soon exit RTL<\/a>, replaced by Warner Bros. Discovery\u2019s Cl\u00e9ment Schwebig. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe market environment remains challenging, with a reduction of TV advertising revenue in our core markets and an accelerated shift from linear TV to streaming,\u201d said Rabe. \u201cWe are well positioned when the markets regain momentum.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRTL Group today launched an additional share buyback programme for a volume of up to 833,948 RTL Group shares through open-market transactions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fremantle\u2019s financials for the first nine months of this year were hit by the loss of America\u2019s Got…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8390,3313,146,86460,4543,85,46,4616,85709],"class_list":{"0":"post-139512","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-americas-got-talent","9":"tag-earnings","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-fantasy-league","12":"tag-fremantle","13":"tag-il","14":"tag-israel","15":"tag-nbc","16":"tag-rtl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}