YouTube TV, Google’s effort to take on cable-television companies and online-streaming platforms, will soon expand into Dallas-Fort Worth, Charlotte, Washington D.C., Houston, Atlanta, Phoenix, Detroit, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Miami-Fort Lauderdale and Orlando. The streaming service offers live programming from ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, ESPN and other regional networks for $35 (€30.67) per month. In a blog […]
Following on the success of the FreeWheel Council for Premium Video (FWC) in North America, the FWC is launching in Europe, extending its remit to champion the premium video industry on an international level. The FreeWheel Council for Premium Video Europe (FWCE) is an advocacy group consisting, at launch, of 13 members, including major European […]
AMC and Comcast are to offer a new $4.99-a-month upgrade option, branded ‘AMC Premiere’, that will allow US viewers to watch the latest episode of AMC shows without any commercials. The service will also include bonus scenes and interviews with casts and writers. It will not, however, have past seasons of many of AMC’s shows. […]
With a new season of Game of Thrones less than three weeks away, research from comparison site Finder.com.au suggests that Australians are once again likely to become the world’s most prolific pirates of the show. The only legal way to watch the show at the same time as the rest of the world will be […]
Barely 10 days ago pay-radio operator SiriusXM invested $480 million into US streaming service Pandora. On June 27th Pandora confirmed what the industry had rumoured for a few days, that its CEO – and co-founder – Tim Westergren, had “stepped down”. The senior-level changes are far from over. SiriusXM now owns 19 per cent of […]
Following the recent data published on broadband connectivity in Africa, Dataxis predicts that 20 million households and businesses will have wired internet connection by 2022 in Africa, compared to 11 million in 2016. Nonetheless, although wired broadband is on the rise with the progressive introduction of Fibre-to-the-home in most developed countries, Africa still lags behind […]
Eighty consecutive successes for rocket launch company Arianespace is a unique record, and the June 28th launch of two satellites helped cement that achievement with a flawless launch (Flight 238). The two satellites included GSAT-17, a communications satellite for India, and a so-called condominium joint-venture satellite for the Arabsat-owned HellasSat-3 which shares a satellite with […]
ESPN has won the exclusive rights to broadcast the English Premier League in Brazil for the three seasons 2019/20 to 2021/22. One season into the current three-year cycle, the new deal will see ESPN Brazil hosting Premier League football on its channels for at least the next five seasons. Financial terms of the deal have not […]
AMC Networks International – Central & Northern Europe has signed a new distribution deal for its AMC channel. Effective immediately, Croatia’s subscription television provider Vipnet will add AMC to its basic channel package. The new deal will see AMC launching for the first time within a basic cable package for Vipnet TV subscribers in Croatia. […]
Viu, a pan-regional OTT video service by PCCW Media, has debuted its latest Viu Original content that showcases a vast array of Chinese content from unique drama series, reality travelogs, culinary shows to infotainment talk shows by ViuTV, a domestic free TV service provider in Hong Kong. The programmes are available in Singapore and the […]