Ryan Baker, of Baker Marquart, the law firm acting for OTT streaming service FilmOn X, has filed a petition for rehearing en banc (a session in which a case is heard before all the judges of a court [before the entire bench] rather than by a panel of judges selected from them) in respect of […]

The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) have urged EU decision makers to give citizens the keys to enjoy more TV and radio programmes from across Europe, which they suggest can be done through new copyright licensing rules which meet the needs of the Digital Single Market. At an event April […]

Sky Italia has launched Sky Kids, the first mobile TV on demand dedicated for children aged from two to 13 years. Thanks to the new app, children can initially watch their favourite TV programmes from the Sky Italia platform on their tablets (later also on smartphones) even without an Internet connection. According to the pay-TV […]

The New York Post is reporting that that Spotify and Vivendi-backed UMG have found an agreement over music streaming distribution. According to the article, UMG has agreed to get a lower share of Spotify’s revenues – which currently stands at 55 per centof Spotify’s revenues for recorded – with two conditions: Spotify hits a certain paid-subscriber […]

INSIGHT TV used MIPTV to announce a major carriage and distribution deal with Luxembourg-based M7 Group. The agreement will see INSIGHT TV supply both its UHD and HD channels to M7 for broadcast on CanalDigitaal (Netherlands), two Belgian cable networks, Skylink in the Czech Republic and Slovakia and HD Austria, beginning April 4th. “This announcement […]

Spanish telco Telefónica and its premium pay-TV platform Movistar+ are partnering with German production house Beta Film on their first original productions, The Zone and the Velvet-spinoff Velvet Collections. The Zone and Velvet Collections are the latest productions in the cooperation of Beta Film and Telefónica, which also includes the Tom Tykwer event-series Babylon Berlin, Oliver […]

MIPTV in Cannes was the scene of the launch of Atrium TV, a new business specifically established to create premium, high profile drama content for delivery by regional OTT players and telcos. Positioning itself as a ‘commissioning club, Atrium TV is the brainchild of some of the biggest names in the media business: Sir Howard […]

AMC’s original series Fear the Walking Dead will return for its third season on Monday June 5th at 2:00am BST simultaneous to the US premiere with a repeat at 9:00pm exclusively to BT customers. The first half of the AMC Studios production will consist of eight episodes airing over six weeks, with two back-to-back episodes […]

Premium sports broadcaster beIN is tackling the threat from digital piracy to its pay-TV business head-on, by deploying the live watermarking service from platform, channel and content protection services provider Friend MTS. Friend MTS is providing its live watermarking anti-piracy service ASiD (Advanced Subscriber Identification) to protect all beIN channels on the broadcaster’s OTT platform […]