Spanish regulatory body CNMC has opened a case against Movistar for overcharging Vodafone and Orange for premium football on El Partidazo, which covers the best La Liga matches every week. A year ago, Movistar acknowledged the overcharging and paid compensation to its rivals. Now, the CNMC believes that was insufficient, because there was a real […]
International content consultancy 3Vision has confirmed that all3media international will be joining a growing list of major distributors and buyers in using the 3Vision Show Tracker tool to drive forward its global distribution plans. The 3Vision Show Tracker service tracks the distribution of over 300 scripted TV series in major global markets. It monitors over […]
Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) is partnering with mobile operators Play in Poland and Telenor in Bulgaria to deliver a premium experience Nickelodeon Play mobile VoD app. Mobile customers in Poland and Bulgaria can access an extensive Nickelodeon content on-demand experience, including a wide selection of full-length episodes of popular animated series, games and original […]
Movie, TV and celebrity website IMDb has confirmed that IMDb TV, a free streaming video channel formerly known as IMDb Freedive, will triple its content selection, bringing thousands of new titles to the ad-supported service in the coming months. Additionally, IMDb TV will launch in Europe later in 2019, bringing a premium collection of movies […]
Spain’s Movistar and Mediapro have allied to launch Movistar Esports Ubeat in Latin America targeted at all esports fans. The channel, available on Movistar’s OTT platform Movistar Play, includes all the best esports content including Latin American La Liga Movistar League of Legends, as well as national championships, and content from Clash Royale, Fortnite, CS:GO […]
It seems that the Media Relations team at beIN Sport were a little quick with their claim of victory in their dispute with Arabsat. The ‘victory’ was widely publicised over the past weekend. Setting aside the obvious merits of Qatar-based beIN claim against the Saudi beoutQ pirates, it is now clear that the French Tribunal […]
French producer and adult content distributor Marc Dorcel is to launch the first adult channel in Africa. Dorcel TV Africa will be exclusively carried on pay-TV offering Les Bouquets Canal+, which covers more than 25 countries across the continent. Available from the Evasion+ package and with a parental password, the channel will deliver exclusive African […]
Last week, a French Tribunal found – apparently decisively – that Saudi Arabia-based Arabsat is distributing pirated signals from beoutQ. The legal action had been brought by Qatar’s BeIN Media Group which has suffered badly at the hands of the pirates. beIN’s case was brought before the President of the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris […]
Malaysian media group Astro Malaysia Holdings has entered into a strategic partnership with Chinese online entertainment service iQIYI. Under the partnership, Astro has the exclusive rights to deliver iQIYI content on TV, On Demand and OTT in Malaysia including the world’s first iQIYI branded channel comprising iQIYI’s extensive slate of original content from drama to […]
In a major legal break-through in the relentless fight to stop the Saudi Arabia-backed pirate operation beoutQ, a French court has held that Arabsat – the Saudi-headquartered regional satellite provider – distributes beoutQ on its satellites, despite Arabsat’s two year denial of any involvement in the world’s most notorious pirate broadcasting operation. The ruling came […]