Advanced Television

Rights

Dailymotion, MBC content partnership

Video player technology and content discovery platform Dailymotion has agreed a syndication partnership with MBC, one of South Korea’s most prominent networks and content publishers. As part of the agreement, MBC will distribute video content from eight portfolio networks—MBC Kpop, MBC Drama, MBC Entertainment, MBC News, MBC Documentary, Mbig News, TV-People, and MBC Classic—via Dailymotion’s […]

April 11, 2018Colin Mann @ MIPTV

Playboy TV strengthens European presence

Seeking to expand and develop its presence in Europe, Playboy TV has enlisted media company Marc Dorcel to manage, from May 1st 2018, its television business including linear channel programming, exclusive distribution and management of the VoD content offering. The agreement will cover Europe (except UK, Spain and Portugal), Africa and Middle East. “As Playboy […]

April 11, 2018Colin Mann @ MIPTV

Friend MTS launches 4K/UHD protection

Content and revenue protection specialist Friend MTS has launched a 4K/UHD variant of its ASiD subscriber level watermarking service to protect premium sports and entertainment content from streaming piracy sourced from set-top boxes and OTT players. The ASiD global monitoring and watermarking service is highly-automated to allow scaling for the largest live sports events, which […]

April 10, 2018

Star India wins Indian cricket rights

Star India has won India International and Domestic media rights for the period from April 15th, 2018 until March 31st, 2023 following an online auction process that lasted three days. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI had invited bids for Global Television Rights plus Rest of the World Digital Rights Package Indian […]

April 6, 2018By Colin Mann

Royalty-free CA standard from EBU

The EBU, in close collaboration with network equipment vendors ATEME and NEVION, has updated its royalty-free and interoperable stream protection standard (BISS) with a conditional access extension, BISS-CA, which enables real-time entitlement management for content streams over any network. The BISS-CA mode (EBU Tech3292s1) is based on state-of-the-art symmetric AES and asymmetric RSA cryptography and […]

April 6, 2018

Friend MTS launches Partner Programme

Content and revenue protection specialist Friend MTS has launched an ASiD Watermarking Partner Programme to accelerate the adoption of its widely-used video watermarking service for premium sports and entertainment providers. The first technology partners to join the programme are OTT video player solution providers VisualOn, NexPlayer and Bitmovin. “With the growing menace of streaming piracy, […]

April 6, 2018

Jail terms for Kodi device fraudsters

Two suppliers of Kodi-type illegal devices have each been jailed for four and half years in Newcastle Crown Court in the northwest of England after being found guilty of conspiracy to defraud. John Dodds and Jason Richards sold hundreds of devices that enabled their customers to view Premier League football via unauthorised access to Sky […]

April 5, 2018By Colin Mann

Synacor tackles TV Everywhere password abuse

Technology development, multiplatform services and revenue specialist Synacor has unveiled Forever Login, a feature designed to curb pay-TV’s password sharing challenges that research firm Parks Associates estimates will be a $10 billion (€8.14bn) problem. Available on the company’s Cloud ID authentication platform, the new feature lets operators balance easy subscriber access to TV Everywhere content […]

April 5, 2018

More football on Swisscom TV

Swisscom TV is becoming the home of football for all fans in Switzerland. In addition to the Raiffeisen Super League, the Brack.ch Challenge League and many of the top European leagues, UEFA Champions League matches will now also be shown via Teleclub from this summer onwards. This offering is rounded off with UEFA Europa League […]

April 5, 2018

Sky Deutschland to air World Cup in 4K

Sky Deutschland has acquired the broadcast rights to show 25 games from this summer’s Football World Cup in Russia in UHD. The deal struck with SportA, the sports rights agency of German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF, gives SkyD the exclusive right to a choice game live in UHD on all tournament days. The live […]

April 4, 2018