After months of rumours, Sky – the Comcast-owned pay-TV group – has reportedly agreed on terms to acquire ITV’s broadcast and streaming unit. The £1.6 billion (€1.8bn) deal is said to have “moved in a positive direction” in recent days and was now being finalised by lawyers, according to a Reuters report. The total transaction […]
The Portuguese Competition Authority (AdC) has fined telecom operators Meo, Nos, and Vodafone, along with consulting firm Accenture, a combined €13.3 million for entering into an anti-competitive agreement. The penalties stem from a December 2021 accusation that the companies colluded to insert 30 seconds of advertising before users could access automatic TV recordings. This was […]
The UK Government is reportedly preparing a Green Paper, to be published within the next few weeks, that will set out the roadmap for switching off terrestrial TV signals in favour of internet-based streaming. The Government is currently committed to DTT until 2034, but Sky suggested earlier this year that a switch-off as early as […]
The integration of global SVoDs into the French audiovisual support fund since 2021 has reset the traditional order, according to French funding public body CNC which unveiled its 2025 French TV production annual round-up at the Cannes Film Festival. Independent online services, not belonging to public or private broadcasters, commissioned 231 hours of content in 2025 […]
Canal+ CEO Maxime Saada isn’t ruling out Canal+’s support in distributing Ligue 1+ starting with the 2026/27 season, but has made any deal conditional on there being no minimum guarantee. In an interview with sports daily L’Équipe, Saada left the door ajar amid persistent tensions between the pay-TV broadcaster, which lost Ligue 1 TV rights […]
DAZN, the sports streaming platform, and the DFL (Deutsche Fußball Liga), have announced a legal victory in their fight against content theft, following a court decision granting a blocking injunction against livetv.sx, the largest illegal sports piracy website in Germany. Active for more than 13 years, livetv.sx is estimated to have accounted for a significant […]
Sky has announced that new customers will be able to get Sky, HBO Max, Disney+, Hayu and Netflix together as part of Sky Ultimate TV from £24 a month – rolling out this March. Existing customers will get access as part of their Sky TV subscription, with over £20 worth of streaming apps included each […]
Manhattan TV, the British TV device specialist, has announced that the Aero 4K TV Streamer with Freely – the free streaming platform backed by the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and 5 – will launch in February. Users can connect Aero to their broadband network over Wi-Fi, with no aerial or satellite dish required, to gain […]
Parks Associates has unveiled consumer research from its Tech Ecosystem Consumer Insights Dashboard showing that smart TVs are the dominant gateway for streaming video in US households. Now, 61 per cent of US internet households use a smart TV as their primary streaming video device, continuing the shift in viewing behavior away from streaming media […]
Over the past year, major streamers have turned to successful bundling strategies to boost retention and simplify viewer access to a wider range of content. With more services than ever competing for screen time, the question remains: how do audiences navigate what to watch next? Hub Entertainment Research’s annual Conquering Content study finds that, while […]