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Sony acquires Cricket Australia media rights

Cricket Australia has secured a new broadcast and digital partner for India and the subcontinent. Sony Pictures Networks India (SPN) has acquired the exclusive media rights for all men’s international matches played in Australia, beginning with the Magellan Ashes Series in November. The term of the deal is six years and will cover multiple Indian […]

October 10, 2017

Spain: €1.4bn for football TV rights

Inflation in Spain’s football TV rights are becoming burdensome for TV operators. In the 2016-2017 season, the networks paid a combined €1.387 billion to the Spanish football teams, up €388.7 million than the previous year, according to La Liga. The centralised sale of the football TV rights in the domestic market and the exploitation of […]

October 9, 2017From David Del Valle in Madrid

Spain: Content industry anti-piracy campaign

Spain’s Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport (Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte) is spearheading an anti-piracy awareness campaign ‘No piratees tu futuro’ (Don’t steal your future). The campaign is supported by La Liga football and with the collaboration of content industry bodies and companies such as ADIF, Atresmedia, la Federación de Cines de España […]

October 9, 2017By Colin Mann

Disney, Altice finalise distribution deal

Following the announcement on October 1st of a tentative carriage deal that averted a potential blackout of Disney-owned channels in nearly 2.6 million homes in the greater New York area served by the cable MSO Altice USA’s Optimum cable TV service, Altice USA and The Walt Disney Company have announced a comprehensive distribution agreement to […]

October 6, 2017By Colin Mann

Mediaset: “Telcos distort the TV market”

The CEO of Mediaset Spain, Paolo Vasile, has accused telco operators – Telefónica, Vodafone and Orange- of distorting the TV market by inflating the prices for football TV rights. At a conference in Madrid, he expressed concern about the fact that pay-TV is controlled by telco operators. According to him: “This generates distortion in the […]

October 5, 2017From David Del Valle in Madrid

Study: Anti-piracy efforts halve pirate ad revenue

A new study, Measuring Digital Advertising Revenue to Infringing Sites, from The Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG) – an advertising industry initiative to fight criminal activity in the digital advertising supply chain – has found that anti-piracy steps taken by the digital advertising industry have reduced ad revenue for pirate sites by between 48 and 61 […]

October 5, 2017By Colin Mann

MPAA warns of emerging Kodi threat

Charles Rivkin, CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), has warned US trade representatives of what he describes as an emerging global threat of streaming piracy which is enabled by piracy devices preloaded with software to illicitly stream movies and television programming, posing a “significant and evolving challenge”. In formal comments submitted to […]

October 4, 2017By Colin Mann

YouTube, MLB World Series partnership

YouTube and Major League Baseball have agree a multi-faceted partnership to drive fan excitement for the 2017 World Series, as well as showcase another way for baseball fans to watch the national pastime with a new cable-free, live TV service – YouTube TV. As part of the partnership, YouTube TV will serve as the presenting […]

October 4, 2017

ESPN wins US F1 rights race

Formula One and ESPN have agreed a multi-year linear and digital partnership to broadcast every race live in the US from the start of the 2018 season. NBC Sports Group has held the F1 rights since 2013, but said it “chose not to enter into a new agreement in which the rights holder itself competes […]

October 4, 2017By Colin Mann

HK: Infringing list cuts piracy website traffic by 14%

The pilot run of the Infringing Website List (IWL) Scheme established by the Hong Kong Creative Industries Association (HKCIA) has resulted in the removal of advertisements on infringing websites by 50 brands in Hong Kong and reduced traffic of a number of infringing websites by 14 per cent on average. Launched in December 2016, the […]

October 4, 2017By Colin Mann