Charter Communications is to launch Spectrum TV Essentials, an Internet-delivered over-the-top (OTT) video service, to be made available exclusively in Charter’s footprint to Spectrum Internet customers who don’t already subscribe to Spectrum video services. Launching by the end of March, Spectrum TV Essentials will include more than 60 live popular lifestyle, entertainment and news channels, […]
Viacom and fuboTV have agreed a carriage deal that will extend Viacom’s global portfolio of premier entertainment brands to fuboTV’s live TV streaming service. Viacom’s nine core media networks – BET, CMT, COMEDY CENTRAL, MTV, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., Paramount Network, TV Land and VH1 – will soon be included in fuboTV’s base package, fubo. An […]
Digital advertising technology provider Amobee has secured an agreement with measurement and data analytics company Nielsen to power the convergence of TV and digital for brands and agencies in the United States. The collaboration provides Amobee with access to Nielsen’s television viewing and online media consumption data, which can be harnessed to create and activate […]
True Royalty TV, the first and only subscription video on demand service created to satisfy the millions of fans of the British Royal Family across the US and around the world, is now available over the Internet on Comcast’s Xfinity X1. The launch marks the first time the UK-based online subscription video on demand service […]
Ahead of this year’s Academy Awards, a study by GlobalWebIndex highlights how radically audiences have evolved in recent years, with 46 per cent of UK consumers citing Netflix – a new entrant in the Oscars – is now their second choice when looking to watch a film for the first time. Cinema is only marginally […]
Italian public broadcaster RAI will start broadcasting 8K content in 2020, starting with the Tokyo Olympics, making it the first broadcaster in Europe to use the technology. A preview of the broadcaster’s plans was made at a conference in Rome, during which several examples of productions in 4K and 8K were presented to the public. […]
Barry Diller, who heads up IAC but is a former boss at Paramount and Fox Studios, says that Hollywood is now irrelevant and has been beaten by Netflix. Diller, speaking in a podcast for the Recode-Decode website, said that the outlook for Hollywood is dire. “Netflix has won this game” he said. “I mean, short […]
Brazil’s video entertainment market faced a challenging 2018, with consumer spend down 6 per cent to R$ 22.4 billion (€4.85bn), according to a new video insights report from Futuresource Consulting. However, despite the decline, there are pockets of growth and a path to recovery ahead. “Brazil’s video entertainment industry is still feeling the after-effects of […]
Acclaimed adult animation BoJack Horseman will be available for free for the first time to UK viewers starting on February 25th on DMAX, Discovery’s new free to air male entertainment channel. The acquisition deal with global content leader Lionsgate includes local licensing rights for seasons 1-6. BoJack Horseman follows the life of a formerly famous […]
Italy’s Antitrust Authority has fined Sky Italia €7 million for failing to provide “clear and immediate” information to potential subscribers that it did not have all Serie A’s games in its football package this season. From this season, streaming platform DAZN has been airing three out of the ten weekly matches, leaving Sky Italia with […]