Eurovision Sport and Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) have extended their media rights agreement for the Tour de France through to 2025. In addition, Eurovision Sport has extended its agreement with Unipublic, a subsidiary of ASO, for the Vuelta, again through to 2025. The Tour de France will be available to audiences in 54 countries, with […]
France’s new combined TV streaming service Salto is due to beta launch on June 3rd ahead of a full roll-out during September. However, a bank report suggests it remains cautious on other European free-to-air broadcasters’ prospects because of their limited libraries and lack of marketing firepower. CEO Thomas Follin has already announced that the French […]
BBC Africa TV programmes are now available to viewers in South Africa on the free-to-air channel Soweto TV. The deal means viewers to Soweto TV also gain access to the BBC’s global news programme for children produced by Angelina Jolie, My World, multi award-winning investigative series Africa Eye, weekly health, fitness and food programme Life […]
Pay-TV revenues in Spain set a record high the second quarter of 2019 reaching €572.3 million, up 4.4 per cent, driven by convergent packages. CNMC’s latest report reveals that pay-TV subscribers grew by 2.1 per cent year-on-year to 6.75 million. By contrast, FTA TV business dropped by 9 per cent to €461 million. Overall, total […]
Portuguese FTA broadcaster TVI has acquired the rights to air 22 live matches from this summer’s Euro 2020 football tournament in a sublicensing deal with pay-TV network SportTV. TVI will broadcast all of Portugal’s matches, as well as nine group stage games, four round of 16 game, both semi-finals and the final. The network will […]
The UK Government has opened a public consultation on whether it should proceed with the decriminalisation of TV licence evasion by replacing the criminal sanction with an alternative civil enforcement scheme. The Government believes that it is right to look again at decriminalising TV licence evasion in order to ensure a proportionate and fair approach […]
Following his election as Chair of the UK House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, Julian Knight MP has set out three areas he sees as priorities during his tenure. He said he was “delighted” to have secured the support of the House to lead the DCMS Committee in the new Parliament. “Having […]
BBC News has outlined plans to modernise its newsroom to respond to changing audience needs, ensure it is providing a truly universal service, and complete its £80 million (€95m) savings target, suggesting the changes will lead to some 450 job losses. The BBC remains the UK’s most trusted and most consumed news service – but […]
RTL, the German FTA commercial broadcaster, has acquired the exclusive rights in the country to the UEFA Europa League and the newly-created Europa Conference League for the new cycle, from the 2021-22 season to 2023-24. RTL will broadcast both club competitions on its RTL and Nitro channels, as well as on its streaming platform TVNow. […]
beIN Sports will broadcast the NBA Paris Game on January 24th between the Charlotte Hornets and the Milwaukee Bucks live from the AccorHotels Arena on its FTA channel for millions of fans in the MENA region. beIN Sportsis the presenting partner and official broadcaster for the game. The NBA Paris Game will mark the Milwaukee […]