The Spanish 4K TV channel All Flamenco has reached an agreement with Orange France to become part of its Spanish bouquet of 8 channels. It is included in a €6 a month package along with Antena 3, Star TVE, Atreseries, Canal 24 Horas, TV3 Catalunya, ETB Sat, TVG and All Flamenco for a potential audience […]
Netflix has struck a deal with ITV Studios Global Entertainment for the streaming rights to thriller series Bodyguard to its members globally outside of the UK and Ireland and China from October 24th. Bodyguard is produced by World Productions, an ITV Studios company. The series is currently proving a ratings hit on BBC One. Episode […]
Global Internet and entertainment group Naspers has announced its intention to list its Video Entertainment business separately on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) and simultaneously to unbundle the shares in this business to its shareholders. The new company will be named MultiChoice Group and will include MultiChoice South Africa, MultiChoice Africa, Showmax Africa, and Irdeto. […]
At the 2018 RDK European Summit, RDK Management unveiled a new app program that it says will make it easier to develop and launch apps consistently across RDK-based set-top boxes (STBs). The two-pronged program gives service providers the flexibility to use a versatile new RDK App Framework to build and manage their own solutions, or […]
Rob Koenon, the President of VR Industry Forum (VRIF), has said that creating a buoyant marketplace for VR in the future will depend on high-quality and interoperable services. Speaking during an IBC Masterclass on VR Technology and Industry, Koenon highlighted the healthy and realistic expectations that now surround VR – but warned that the industry […]
BT has signed a new long-term deal with UKTV that will include an enhanced catch-up VoD offering for BT TV customers. UKTV, the multichannel broadcaster, has been a BT TV partner since launch and this new deal means BT TV customers will continue to get UKTV’s 10 channel network which includes Gold, Dave, Watch, Alibi, […]
Boing – an Italian free to air channel dedicated to kids and born from the joint venture between Turner and RTI Mediaset – launched the Boing app in August, allowing users to watch Boing content on the go on smartphone and tablet devices. In just a few weeks the app has already been downloaded 1 […]
Nordic Entertainment Group has acquired the exclusive Danish rights to the 2020 UEFA Euro 2020 championship. The tournament will be played in 12 cities across Europe and all games will be shown live on NENT Group’s streaming service Viaplay in Denmark. NENT Group will sublicence parts of the rights to DR (Danmarks Radio), including matches […]
The Thomson Reuters Foundation – the charitable arm of one of the world’s largest news and information provider – has announced the expansion of its under-reported human rights news coverage with the launch of a dedicated LGBT+ digital news platform. Launching on September 27th, Openly will serve a global audience looking for authoritative, impartial and […]
Tony Hall, the BBC’s director general, is this week preparing to call for video streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon to be regulated to the same extent as the UK’s traditional broadcasters – or else risk “killing off” British content. In a speech obtained by UK news outlets that is set to delivered during […]