Eleven Sports, the OTT sports broadcaster, has confirmed it will abandon its controversial decision to stream La Liga football matches on Saturday afternoons during the traditional UK blackout period for live football. However, the company signalled it is ready to challenge the decades old ruling, and pointed to the fact that the blackout would seem […]
Creative Content Australia (CCA), an industry organisation committed to raising awareness about the value of copyright and the impact of content theft on the screen industries, has welcomed the introduction of copyright legislation amendments that protect the work of local and global screen content creators. The Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) Bill 2018, introduced in the […]
MTV Studios has unveiled a partnership with Facebook Watch to reimagine the ground-breaking series MTV’s The Real World for three all new seasons debuting Spring 2019. Drawing on Facebook’s global platform, the new seasons will be native productions in Mexico, Thailand and the United States, respectively, to explore friendship, and the cultural and social environment in each. Available exclusively on […]
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) is urging the European Commission to ensure online platforms and advertisers put in place effective procedures and policies to tackle the scourge of fake news. In September 2018, the Sounding Board of the Multistakeholder Forum on Disinformation – of which the EBU is a member – delivered a damning verdict […]
Streaming platform and device specialist Roku has confirmed it will resume sales of its devices in Mexico. Roku device sales had been banned in the country for over a year amid a court battle resulting from hackers offering pirated content from pay-TV networks, such as HBO and ESPN, through the devices. “We are grateful for […]
CSI Sports’ 24/7 live sports channel, Fight Sports, has extended its carriage agreement with Bouygues Telecom in France. Fight Sports Network reaches over Forty (40) countries with over 200+ carriage agreements within under 6 years from launch. The performance and success of the network has delivered a longer term multi-year extension with leading operator Bouygues […]
Animal Planet, one of Discovery’s leading networks, has unveiled a new brand identity as part of a worldwide strategy to take the network forward. Animal Planet mission is squarely centered around keeping the childhood joy and wonder of animals alive by bringing people up close in every way. The Animal Planet global brand identity will […]
The Bundeskartellamt, Germany’s national competition regulator, is currently examining the conformity with competition law of the cooperation between Sky Deutschland and Perform (operator of the DAZN streaming service) for broadcasting the Champions League in Germany. In a tender conducted by UEFA in 2017, Sky acquired the broadcasting rights for all matches in the period between 2018 […]
Spain has become a key market for Netflix. The vice president of International Content, Erik Barmack, has now confirmed that the company will produce between 10 and 12 TV series a year in the country. Recently, Netflix announced the opening of its fourth European office in Madrid (after Amsterdam, London and Paris) and signed an […]
Declaring himself to be “really passionate about UK creativity”, Tim Davie, CEO of BBC Studios, has suggested that the unit’s success will come from a focus on British-driven creativity, “absolutely” looking for the finest premium content. “We’re a global company, but we’re powered by British creativity,” he asserted. “We are very, very focused on high-end, […]