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ESPN Player nets NHL rights

ESPN Player has secured the rights to broadcast three live NHL games a week in 61 countries. The coverage starts this week in countries including Belgium, Italy, Greece, Spain, Turkey, Nigeria, South Africa, Hungary, Romania, and covers all of sub-Saharan Africa. Fans in the countries will be able to access three live games per week […]

December 10, 2019

StarzPlay moves into original content with Image Nation

StarzPlay, the SVoD service, has entered into a partnership with Academy Award-winning media and entertainment company, Image Nation Abu Dhabi, to create its first original content series. Production will commence in 2020 with the Arabic-language content set to be released towards the end of the same year. The production will be an anthology of Urban […]

December 10, 2019

Report: Short-form streaming originals to boom

Snapchat, Facebook Watch and Quibi are driving a boom in short-form content according to a report by Ampere Analysis. Already making up 9 per cent of all VoD series globally, 11 per cent of upcoming VoD commissions are short-form. Initially driven by Comedy, upcoming short-form series are shifting towards factual content, with a focus on […]

December 9, 2019

Sony, Verizon, NBC 5G sports production demo

Sony Imaging Products & Solutions, Sony Mobile Communications and multiplay telco Verizon have teamed up with NBC Sports to test how 5G can change the way live sports broadcasts are captured and produced. During the Houston Texans vs New England Patriots American Football game at NRG Stadium on December 1st, 2019, a camera person from […]

December 9, 2019By Colin Mann

Channel 5 content joins Sky Box Sets & NOW TV

Sky and Viacom-owned Channel 5 have announced a new content partnership to bring a range of entertainment and factual box-sets to Sky Box Sets and the NOW TV Entertainment Pass. Customers will be able to binge on 300 hours of Channel 5 shows. The box-sets include British Royal documentaries such as Meghan and Harry: In […]

December 9, 2019

Ghana FC scraps StarTimes football deal

Ghana’s Football Association (GFA) has pulled out of a $17.9 million agreement have its games covered by pay-TV operator StarTimes Group. GFA has instead invited broadcasters and media organisations to make new bids for the TV and radio rights with a deadline for bids being December 10th. The GFA offer on the table includes its […]

December 9, 2019By Chris Forrester

Teltoo to enhance Liberty Global streaming

Teltoo, a software-only decentralised video delivery technology company, has announced a partnership with Liberty Global to improve the overall bandwidth capacity for live streaming of the most popular events on television. By working with Teltoo as a peer-to-peer CDN partner, Liberty Global will have another tool that enhances their existing CDN and help continue to […]

December 9, 2019

China: Manchester United content deal with Alibaba

Manchester United FC has formed a new partnership with Alibaba Group will bring exclusive rights to club content in China to Alibaba’s ecosystem for the first time, further extending the club’s engagement with its massive Chinese fanbase. The partnership will see Manchester United content presented and localised on multiple Alibaba platforms, giving fans access to […]

December 9, 2019

Attenborough to front BBC’s The Green Planet

The BBC has announced that Sir David Attenborough is to present The Green Planet, a new five part landmark series from BBC Studios Natural History Unit. The Green Planet will be “the first immersive portrayal of an unseen, inter-connected world, full of remarkable new behaviour, emotional stories and surprising heroes in the plant world. This […]

December 9, 2019

South Africa: Pirate Internet streaming arrest

The South African Police Service (SAPS) has arrested a suspect in Cape Town for illegally selling pirate Internet streaming devices and online content subscriptions. The investigation followed information received by the Police’s Provincial Commercial Detective Unit under the command of General Veary regarding these pirate activities that enabled people to view MultiChoice South Africa content […]

December 6, 2019By Colin Mann