Liberty Global has announced its Q4 and full-year 2017 financial results. The international telco reported full year revenues of $15 billion, $3.9 billion of which were generated in the 4th quarter. This represented a rise of 2.3 per cent on the full year and 2.9 per cent on the 4th quarter. However, operating income for […]
China’s Orient Hontai will now control Spanish media company Mediapro after acquiring a 53.5 per cent stake in the company for around €900 million. The Chinese private equity firm has acquired the stake from the shareholders: Torreal, another private equity company with a share of 23 per cent; the Mexican broadcaster Televisa with 19 per […]
Sky and BT Sport have agreed to pay £4.464 billion (€5bn) for Premier League games for three seasons from 2019-20. Five of seven live packages have been awarded, with bidding for the remaining two ongoing. Interest from “multiple bidders” remains, the Premier League said – there had been speculation FAANG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google) […]
ESPN, Sky Sports and Formula 1 are joining forces to bring Sky Sports’ presentation of the championship to the US. Television audiences in the US will be able to watch the Sky Sports coverage as ESPN and ABC air all 21 races in the championship under a multi-year linear and digital partnership between ESPN and […]
Following successful legal action taken by Sky, Sandra McEwan, of Fourways pub Lanarkshire, Victoria Redding of Ellwyn pub in Stirlingshire and Nicholas Whewell of the Thistle Tavern in Fife have each been ordered to pay £10,000 (€11,222) in damages for infringing Sky’s copyright by showing Sky Sports programming illegally in their premises. They must also […]
Telefónica’s pay-TV platform Movistar has launched a new package combining movies and TV series branded ‘Movistar Fusión Ocio Total’. The package is available at €125 a month and also includes a broadband connection of 300 Mbps, unlimited calls to fixed numbers. It also encompasses the Familiar package with over 80 TV channels, the cinema offer […]
Pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport has partnered with Facebook to extend its Olympic Winter Games digital coverage to people on Facebook across Europe. Facebook communities in Germany, Sweden and Norway will be able to tune in live to Eurosport’s coverage of the PyeongChang 2018 Opening Ceremony on February 9th. Daily highlights, clips and interviews from Eurosport’s […]
Alongside parent company Liberty Global, UK multiplay operator Virgin Media is teaming up with Amazon Prime Video and All3Media International to commission psychological thriller series The Feed from The Walking Dead writer Channing Powell, and Studio Lambert. Based on the recently published novel by Nick Clark Windo, the series will launch in 2019 globally. This is […]
US telco AT&T says it is planning an IPO for its DirecTV Latin America division. AT&T says it will be floating a minority interest in DTV-LA. The IPO will likely take place in the first half of this year. The report is not a surprise and was widely reported in October 2017 when rumours suggested […]
The Italian Football League (Lega Calcio) has awarded the Italian TV rights for the country’s flagship Serie A league tournament for the period 2018-2021 to Barcelona-based content producer MediaPro for €1.05 billion per year. According to Deputy Commissioner, Paolo Nicoletti, the bid exceeded the legal minimum and so the League will now inform the Competition […]