Amazon Studios has revealed it will move to the Culver Studios, a 280,000-square foot TV and movie studio with historical connections. The core building (the ‘Mansion House’) and its associated bungalow-style offices as well as the studio buildings were home in the past to Cecil B De Mille (and where much of Gone With the […]
Pan-African satellite company, Kwesé TV, has announced the addition of Kwesé Family to its entertainment bouquet. Kwesé Family is an owned – Kwesé branded – channel designed to foster relaxation, engagement, upliftment and education for the whole family. The channel comes as an addition into Kwesé TV’s offering which already consists of over 65+ channels […]
Revenues lost to online piracy will nearly double between 2016 and 2022 to $51.6 billion (€44.5bn), according to the Online TV Piracy Forecasts report from Digital TV Research. Covering 138 countries, these forecasts include revenues lost to TV episodes and movies – but not other sectors such as sports or pay-TV. “Piracy will never be […]
Nasser Al-Khelaifi, the head of beIN Sports Media, spent a reported eight hours talking to Swiss prosecutors on October 26th over alleged corruption and bribery claims between Qatar-based beIN and FIFA’s officials over TV rights to the 2022 football World Cup tournament scheduled to be held in Qatar. Al-Khelaifi faces charges that allege links with […]
Sky Italia is planning to boost investments in new content and state-of-the-art technologies to continue to grow, earmarking around €1.4 billion per year. Speaking to Italian daily Il Sole 24 Ore, CEO Andrea Zappia said that profitability has started to grow again over the last two years, thanks to efficient cost management and the search […]
The EBU has secured the rights to the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games and Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games thanks to a new deal with the International Paralympics Committee (IPC). The EBU has managed the rights to the Paralympic Games for a number of years, working with the Organising Committees until 2012 and with the IPC […]
TV ratings behemoth The Walking Dead returned last week with the first episode of its eighth season, but fans did not return in the same droves they did for the Season 7 opener. While the Season 7 premiere drew 8.4 million in the 18-39 key demographic and 17.03 million overall, the season 8 premiere drew […]
4K UHD is technology that has developed in an asymmetric manner – which is typical. It will soon be impossible to buy a non-UHD large-scale TV, and penetration around the world is accelerating, led by China where six competing makers are driving low cost supply. This means a market ready to watch 4K – and […]
The European General Court has annulled the planned merger of the UPC and Ziggo cable TV networks in the Netherlands, finding that the European Commission failed adequately to look into the impact of the merger on pay-TV sports channels. In 2014, the European Commission approved international cable operator Liberty Global’s acquisition of Dutch cable TV network […]
Italy’s RAI is planning to launch its first English-language TV channel in 2018. The initiative comes courtesy of the new Service Contract whose draft has been adopted by the Italian public broadcaster, following negotiations with the Ministry of Economic Development. According to daily La Repubblica, the new 24-hour channel will be distributed globally and will […]