Investment booms to meet TV Content demand

The continuing surge in demand for programming by the increasingly competitive group of SVOD streaming companies that range from Netflix and Amazon to Apple, Disney and Warner Media is bringing more private equity into television.

One increasingly voracious group of buyers, the private equity (PE) outfits,  returning to TV in a big way, have become particularly active over recent months. “PE firms haven’t really been focused on TV for a decade,” explains LA-based Thomas Dey, CEO and president at ACF Investment Bank

Tom Manwaring, partner at Helion Partners, says several reasons are driving PE interest, not least the fact they have “more funds than ever which they need to invest and have noticed the growth of the marketplace driven by streamers, including the demands for scripted but also unscripted”