Telefonica and media group Mediapro have reached an agreement for Telefonica’s pay TV platform Movistar Plus to buy the rights to La Liga and the Champions League for the next three years, starting in 2016-2017. Telefonica will pay Mediapro €2.4 billion for adding to Movistar’s line-up Mediapro-distributed BeIN Sports La Liga and Champions channels including […]
Satellite operator SES says its channel growth has exploded over the past year, rising by 11.3 per cent. It is now carrying 7,268 channels and says its strongest growth “is in emerging markets”. Growth is also occurring in HDTV broadcasting, and SES says that its Ultra-HD confirmed channel count now amounts to seven channels with […]
Turner Broadcasting is launching an Ad Lab to invent and test ways to improve the consumer experience as more users avoid ads and OTT ad values languish. The Ad Lab will be staffed and sponsored by Turner, but trade organizations, research companies and technology companies will be invited to join its advisory board, to be […]
The six new French DTT HD channels reached the 5.5 per cent audience share mark in 2015, according to the annual ratings Mediamat survey by Médiamétrie. The services – Chérie 25, 6ter, RMC Découverte HD 24, Numéro 23 and HD1 – jumped by 1.7 per cent from a 3.8 per cent audience share in 2014. […]
Argentina is amending its broadcasting rules to create a new class of regulations covering DTH pay-TV satellite transmissions. The end result will differentiate terrestrial-based broadcasters and cable operators and those who transmit via satellite. One batch of regulations (Argentina’s Digital Media Law) has just been re-issued, effective January 1st 2016, which awards existing broadcasters a […]
Amazon Prime Video has made all nine seasons of the classic sci-fi drama The X-Files, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny, available on its service in the UK. All episodes are ready for unlimited streaming on Prime Video effective immediately, giving viewers just under 2 weeks to binge it all before the show returns with […]
Broadcast specialist Vision247 has confirmed the addition of FashionTV to its VisionTV service. The channel is available with immediate effect on Freeview channel 244 on TV, desktop, EETV and via the VisionTV UK app. FashionTV which previously broadcast on Sky Digital, will provide fashion tips and advice to the 11 million users of Freeview UK. […]
Mike Leigh is one of the most celebrated British filmmakers of all time and 40 years ago today one of his best-loved works, Nuts In May was broadcast on BBC One in the Play For Today strand. To mark this occasion BBC Store is releasing The Mike Leigh Collection – nine films made for the […]
Three days is next to nothing in terms of satellite launch slippage, but news has emerged from Russian news agency TASS that the ILS/Proton rocket launch is to be delayed. The original launch date for Eutelsat 9B was January 25th, and this has been shifted back to January 28th. TASS quotes sources saying that the […]
RR Media, a provider of global digital media services to the broadcast and media industries, has announced an upgraded contract renewal with Fashion One television network, the international fashion, entertainment and lifestyle broadcaster. RR Media will provide content management and global delivery services for nine of the network’s channels in multiple configurations and localised versions […]