US professional football league Major League Soccer and Univision Deportes, the multimedia sports division of Univision Communications Inc. (UCI), the leading media company serving Hispanic America, are collaborating with Facebook to live stream a full slate of regular season matches on the social network. As part of this, MLS will also drive further social engagement […]
Premium television streaming service Hulu is continuing to build up the roster of channels it will offer on its forthcoming live TV streaming service by securing an affiliate agreement with A+E Networks that will bring six original brands from the A+E Networks Family to the platform. The deal adds live and on-demand streaming access to […]
BBC Worldwide – the commercial arm of the Corporation has launched BBC Player in Malaysia, the second country to receive the service following its successful launch in Singapore in 2016. The multi-genre service is available exclusively to subscribers of Telekom Malaysia Berhad’s (TM) IPTV service, HyppTV, through an authenticated SVoD service. Hypp TV viewers will […]
US auto racing series NASCAR and digital satellite service SiriusXM have agreed a six-year renewal to extend their broadcasting and marketing agreement through 2022. SiriusXM will continue to deliver 24/7 racing content to millions of listeners across North America, including live broadcasts of every race, plus daily NASCAR talk and interviews with voices across the […]
On March 8th, an application for a Court Order, that will result in servers streaming unauthorised English Premier League content being blocked, was heard and granted in the English High Court. The Premier League (PL) is currently engaged in a range of activity to protect its IP, and the significant investment made in the competition […]
Research by broadband comparison website Broadband Genie has revealed the majority (72 per cent) of the public believe piracy warning letters sent by UK ISPs are unlikely to have any impact. Under the Voluntary Copyright Alert Programme (VCAP), educational letters are sent to Internet users who are believed to have infringed copyright by sharing material […]
John Petter, CEO of BT’s Consumer division, has defended the telco’s securing of exclusive UK rights to Europe’s top club football competitions, the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League. Currently, free-to-air broadcaster ITV shows highlights of Champions league games, with News Limited sharing clips rights with BT. Under the £1.2 billion (€1.38), three-year […]
Describing it as ‘a service truly fit for a queen’, BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, and ITV, the UK’s biggest commercial broadcaster, have launched BritBox, a new subscription video-on-demand (SVoD) streaming service – first revealed mid-December 2016 – with what it says is the most comprehensive collection of British television, across all genres, […]
The largest global consumer piracy online survey ever conducted has found that consumer education could reduce the number of individuals who watch pirated video content. The Irdeto Global Consumer Piracy Survey of more than 25,000 adults across 30 countries found that despite the high number of consumers around the globe watching pirated video content (52 […]
Econet Media’s Kwesé Sports and ESPN has launched the ESPN channel on the Kwesé TV bouquet. This collaboration with Africa’s emerging home of premium sports marks the much anticipated return of ESPN to the African continent. The channel comes after the announcement of the long-term agreement between the two sports broadcasting powerhouses which confirmed Kwesé […]