Following confirmation by France’s Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (CSA) and the country’s Culture Minister that the distribution of free-to-air channels should remain free, and that only additional services such as replay and start over could be ‘paid for’, Canal+ Group has decided gradually to resume distribution of the TF1 Group’s free channels. Subscribers to Canal […]
Hot on the heels of announcing an enhanced co-operation with YouTube, Major League Baseball and Facebook have unveiled a newly expanded partnership for the 2018 MLB season, highlighted by what they describe as an historic agreement to produce and broadcast one game every week to a global audience on Facebook. This 25-game package of weekly […]
BT Sport has renewed its exclusive rights to broadcast the Vanarama National League for a further three years, until 2021. BT Sport has been broadcasting live and exclusive coverage of English football’s fifth tier since its launch in August 2013. The new deal will see typically one match broadcast live each match-week, normally in a […]
French commercial broadcaster TF1 Group and multiplay telco Orange have signed a new global distribution agreement reinstating distribution by Orange of all TF1 group channels, and of the non-linear services associated with the channels, which was interrupted upon the expiry of the previous deal between the pair on January 31st. It cements the partnership between […]
Europol and Spain’s Cuerpo Nacional de Policía (Spanish National Police) have arrested six individuals in what they suggest is a “big hit” to illegal TV streaming networks. The Spanish National Police, supported by Europol’s Intellectual Property Crime Coordinated Coalition (IPC³), arrested six individuals from a crime ring suspected of selling illegal television signals from more […]
YouTube and Major League Baseball are expanding their multi-faceted partnership to drive fan excitement for the sport and to showcase more ways for baseball fans to watch the national pastime with live OTT TV service, YouTube TV. As part of the renewed partnership, YouTube TV will serve as the presenting sponsor of the 2018 and […]
WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) and GOL have announced a new agreement to broadcast weekly WWE highlight shows Bottom Line, Afterburn, and Experience on GOL, a free-to-air sports channel available to all TV households in Spain. Effective immediately, GOL will air Bottom Line on Saturday afternoons, Afterburn on Sunday afternoons and Experience on Monday afternoons, all […]
Following intervention by French broadcasting watchdog the Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (CSA) and the country’s Culture Minister, Canal+ reinstated during the course of the evening of Wednesday March 8th, its retransmission of free-to-air service TF1 which had been interrupted since the evening of Thursday March 1st following a carriage dispute between the pair. The reinstatement […]
UK broadcast regulator Ofcom has published fresh analysis setting out the challenges facing the UK’s public service broadcasters in the face of greater online media consumption and global competition, suggesting that greater co-operation with pay-TV and online competitors may ensure that they remain globally competitive and relevant to UK audiences. The paper, Public service broadcasting […]
Following recent DoJ clearance in the US and other regulatory acceptances, Discovery Communications has confirmed the successful completion its $14.6 billion (€12.4bn) acquisition of Scripps Networks Interactive. Moving forward, the combined company will be officially known as simply: Discovery, Inc. “Today marks another critical milestone for Discovery, as we become a differentiated kind of media […]