Shields, who left AOL in May last year, announced in September that she was launching a digital media content venture with Elisabeth Murdoch's Shine Group.
Elisabeth Murdoch, the chairman and chief executive of independent TV producer Shine Group, is teaming up with former Bebo chief executive Joanna Shields to form a new digital media content venture.
MacIntyre describes the educational and play content venture as something like a Netflix for kids.
Today, MetroPCS has announced a partnership with the Mobile Content Venture (MCV) on a new service that will bring live digital television to the carrier's customers.
For AT&T, which is about to sell its cable unit AT&T Broadband to Comcast, the deal gets it out of a content venture that didn't mesh with its cable distribution focus and brings in cash to help pay down its debt.
For his part Bezza founded and built up Neo Network, a market-leading digital content venture that he sold to the European media group De Agostini, and Earner is a former investment manager at Amadeus Capital Partners.
That's the consumer-facing brand for a new mobile TV service from Mobile Content Venture (MCV), a group of broadcasters that includes FOX, NBC, ION Television, Bahakel, Univision, Telemundo, and Pearl LLC (Pearl is: Belo Corp., Cox Media Group, E.W. Scripps Co., Gannett Broadcasting, Hearst Television Inc., Media General Inc., Meredith Corp., Post-Newsweek Stations Inc. and Raycom Media).
They are reportedly looking to acquire a content provider as well (Live Nation and VICE are partners in an unrelated forthcoming live music content venture).
HBO agreed to dish out big pay raises to Witherspoon ― who is also making bank through Apple's new content venture ― along with Kidman and Woodley.
