Content protection and multiscreen television solutions provider NAGRA is once again teaming up with international research and strategy consultancy MTM to launch the 2019 Pay-TV Innovation Forum. The global research programme will explore the biggest challenges facing pay-TV service providers and content owners today, and how they can identify new opportunities to transform and future-proof […]
YouTube is halting the production of premium drama and scripted comedy, and has consequently stopped taking pitches from producers, according to reports in the US. As Apple preps its TV service including original content, it seems YouTube appears to confirm it is ducking competing head on with the premium streaming services. Bloomberg reports that the […]
Following advanced—television.com’s report of the success of an investigation into a global illegal IPTV streaming business, further details have emerged of participants’ role in the anti-piracy operation. Led by the Spanish National Police (Cuerpo Nacional de Policía) in collaboration with police forces in the United Kingdom, Denmark, Europol, the Premier League and Irdeto, 14 locations […]
After negotiating over the weekend, AT&T and Viacom have announced that they had reached an agreement to renew their US carriage agreement. Details of the deal were not revealed and it isn’t clear how much Viacom will be paid, or which networks will be on AT&T’s outlets, including DirecTV. In a classic stand-off, Viacom stood […]
Discovery is launching HGTV, its home and lifestyle network – and the #3 most watched US cable network – in Germany as a free to air channel. The launch of HGTV will taks place in June and marks the first European launch of this brand since the Scripps acquisition – with further launches to come. […]
Digital piracy data analysis specialist MUSO has revealed that there were more than 189 billion visits to piracy sites throughout 2018. MUSO’s global piracy data platform tracks piracy in film, TV, music, publishing and software. Throughout 2018, TV was by far the most popular content for piracy, with almost half (49.38 per cent) of all […]
Police raids across Europe have broken up a sophisticated pirate IPTV operation that illegally resold online channels. Five individuals have been arrested and a number of servers shut down following the raids in Spain, Denmark and the UK. The IPTV services run by the gang offered customers over 800 channels including sports, movies and adult […]
There has been some negative sentiment on the games industry recently, with stock prices of public games companies in question in both the US and China. While being contrarian to market sentiment is always risky, it’s also possible that folks might be taking a long-term solution to a short-term problem. Digi-Capital’s Games Report forecasts that […]
Eleven Sports, the global sports platform, has extended its rights agreement with Formula 1 in Poland to the end of the 2022 season. The extended deal means Eleven Sports will show all the action from every race weekend exclusively live throughout the 2020, 2021 and 2022 seasons. This is in addition to the current 2019 […]
7Sports, the sport business unit of ProSiebenSat.1, has announced an agreement with Karate Combat to bring its full contact karate competitions free-to-air and online to audiences on ProSieben MAXX and ran FIGHTING across Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Eight events from all over the world will air throughout 2019, live, near-live or on demand on the […]