Sky and BBC Studios, the commercial arm of the BBC, are to bring a new range of BBC comedy and drama box sets to Sky and NOW TV customers. From April 2019, customers will be able to binge on hundreds of hours of content, newly-available on Sky and NOW TV under the trusted UKTV channel […]
A well-sourced report from India suggests that broadcasting giant Dish TV (part of the Essel-backed Zee empire) and Bharti Airtel Digital TV are contemplating a merger. Currently Dish TV India is the nation’s largest with 23.6 million subs (as at December 31st) and a 41 per cent market share. Dish merged in March last year […]
Salisbury will become the first entire city in the UK to gain access to Openreach’s new, future-proof Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband technology, in what is expected to be the fastest city-wide network build in the UK. The UK’s digital infrastructure company is aiming for its ‘Fibre First’ build programme in Salisbury to be completed within a […]
Ahead of the 2019 UK recorded music industry BRIT Awards in London, organiser BRIT Awards Ltd partnered with cloud-based video production, editing and distribution platform Grabyo to enhance its social video strategy and increase its content reach and audience engagement during the awards ceremony. Working alongside content agency Somethin’ Else, Grabyo’s cloud video platform enabled […]
FOX News Digital finished the month of February at number one, beating CNN.com (1.4 billion), in multi-platform views for the first time since August 2018 and securing 1.5 billion total views, a nine percent increase over February 2018, according to comScore. For the fifth consecutive month, FOX News Digital continued leading the multi-platform minute category […]
Mediacorp has become the first media company in Southeast Asia to secure broadcast rights to Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 (Tokyo 2020) and the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 (Beijing 2022). The company has obtained sole rights in Singapore to broadcast the Olympic Games from Dentsu, which had been awarded exclusive broadcast rights for the Olympic […]
Ultimate Boxxer, Britain’s first boxing entertainment brand, is delighted to announce that it has signed a broadcast deal with BT Sport, starting with its first event of the year on May 10th at The Indigo at The O2. The deal will see a minimum of five Ultimate Boxxer events broadcast live in the UK and Ireland […]
Netflix’s next interactive TV series will let viewers spend time with celebrity survival instructor Bear Grylls, best known for his Discovery Channel TV show Man vs Wild. Netflix unveiled the choose-your-own-adventure series, entitled You vs Wild, at a press event in Los Angeles, adding that it will launch as an eight episode season that will […]
Reports from Florida’s Space Coast suggest that SpaceX’s next commercial flight launch will be Arabsat’s latest craft to join its fleet, 6A, will lift off at 6.36 pm (Florida time) on April 7th subject to the usual weather conditions and final readiness checks. Arabsat 6A had been initially expected to launch during Q4 2018. SpaceX […]
ESPN+ is set to be the exclusive distributor of UFC pay-per-view events in the US through 2025, ESPN and the UFC. This will make ESPN+ the single point of purchase for consumers for top UFC events, and extends the partnership between the companies for two additional years. The deal begins at UFC 236 on April […]