BMG Revenues up 10% for 2019, Company Is ‘Well Prepared’ to Weather Coronavirus Pandemic

BERLIN — Live music promoters across Germany, Australia and Switzerland are anticipating losses of €3.7 billion euros ($4.04 billion) in the first half of 2020 due to the coronavirus, according to a new joint paper from industry organizations.

Coronavirus or not, the German film industry has determined that the show must go on. Germany will still hand out its equivalent of the Oscars, the German Film Awards, in a live ceremony in Berlin on April 24, despite the country being on lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Germany's cinema associations have set up an emergency fund to help theaters hit by the coronavirus shutdown, and the film that was number one in the German charts when the epidemic hit will be the first to fill the coffers.

Queen + Adam Lambert’s 2020 European summer tour has been rescheduled amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Max Conze is stepping down as CEO of German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1, with immediate effect. Chief financial officer Rainer Beaujean has taken on additional responsibilities as he becomes the chairman of the executive board.

The March 15 episode of documentary-news series “Axios” on HBO featured an interview with congressman James Clyburn that was notable not just for its newsiness — the South Carolina Democrat likened Republicans’ relationship with President Trump to that of Germans with Adolf Hitler — but also for its intimacy.

By Bruce Haring

Dropping a bombshell. The Big Brother Germany cast were some of the last people to be unaware of the coronavirus but the group finally learned about the global pandemic — on live TV.

For a little while, Germany's Big Brother contestants were some of the only people in the world who didn't know about the current pandemic.  The season started filming in early February, and contestants were kept in the dark as the virus began to spread all over the world. After criticism on social media, producers decided to tell houseguests about what has been happening in a live special, which aired Tuesday.

Contestants on the German version of the reality show “Big Brother” are about to get a huge reality check.

Germany caused major controversy due to the producers' decision to not tell its current 14 competitors about the worldwide coronavirus pandemic.

Well, that’s one way to quarantine. The 14 men and women who are competing on Big Brother in Germany have not yet been informed about the coronavirus pandemic.

As the people across the globe crumble under the fear of Coronavirus pandemic, the cast of Germany’s edition of Big Brother has no idea about what is happening in the world. When the 14 contestants entered the house on February 6, the disease had only hogged headlines for its effect in China.