The BBC says it will remain the free-to-air home for football after announcing it will continue to show English Premier League TV highlights for a further three years. It secured the rights following an open and competitive processwith a bid of £211.5 million (€240.5m). In the 2016-17 season, the BBC’s Premier League football programming was […]
UK broadcasters Sky Sports F1 and Channel 4 have revealed the Grands Prix that will be shown live on their respective pay-TV and free-to-air platforms during the 2018 season. As part of its live coverage of all 21 race weekends from across the globe, Sky Sports F1 will show exclusive coverage of the first grand […]
Over half of UK households (56 per cent) spend more time on the Internet (including streaming) than watching TV, up from 49 per cent in 2016, according to findings from consultancy firm EY’s latest annual digital home survey of 2,500 UK consumers. This is the first time
For the fourth year in a row German supermarkets Aldi and Lidl fill the top spots on YouGov BrandIndex’s list of the top 10 UK brands, with streaming service Netflix third, rising three places from last year’s list, overtaking BBC iPlayer (fourth) in the process. YouGov BrandIndex measures the public’s perception of brands on a […]
France’s Canal+ Group and the M6 Group have agreed a global partnership for M6 content in Canal+ packages. Canal subscribers will be able to continue to have access to the M6 Group’s channels (M6, W9, 6ter, Teva, Paris Premiere, M6 Music, Girondins TV and M6 Boutique la chaîne) and their associated services and will soon […]
According to findings from entertainment technology and audience insights specialist TiVo, the average global viewer spends 4.4 hours each day watching video. Coupled with the global average of 28 minutes spent each day searching for content to watch, that is nearly five hours per day of video engagement, which amounts to 20 per cent of […]
A Christmas treat of box-sets has helped BBC iPlayer achieve its best week on record. Viewers spent more time and streamed more programmes on BBC iPlayer than in any previous week. Christmas week (Monday December 25th to Sunday December 31st) was BBC iPlayer’s best-ever week, both for requests (69.2 million) and for weekly hours (25.6 […]
CBS All Access, CBS’s digital subscription video on-demand and live streaming service, and Amazon have launched the ability for Amazon Prime members to add CBS All Access’s commercial-free offering to their Prime membership with Amazon Channels. “CBS All Access on Amazon Channels offers a seamless way for Amazon Prime members to get all the benefits […]
The UK’s Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has launched a consultation on its proposed approach to enforcement of the EU Portability Regulation which ends on January 31st 2018. From April 1st 2018, online streaming services will be required to allow EU-based subscribers access to paid-for content when temporarily in another EU Member State, for example when […]
UK live-streaming TV service TVPlayer has announced what is says us a UK first with the launch of its new recording feature: enabling online TV viewers to record in the cloud. The launch of the network personal video recorder (nPVR) service marks a key development for TVPlayer, with the platform now being able to supplement […]