A new free-to-air TV channel, FreeSports, has launched in the UK showing up to 10 live football games every week. The channel, operated by the team behind Premier Sports, becomes the only FTA sports channel available on Freeview, TalkTalk and BT. Sky and FreeSat are also carrying the channel, but not Virgin Media. The channel […]
NBCUniversal has launched the new Oxygen app on Apple TV (4th generation). Apple TV users will now be able to authenticate via their pay-TV provider to enjoy current and past episodes of Oxygen’s crime programming. Earlier this summer, Oxygen Media refocused its programming and expanded to a full-time crime destination network for women. The new Oxygen app includes the latest […]
IT giant IBM has launched IBM Watson Media, a new suite of AI-powered solutions on the IBM Cloud that analyse images, video, language, sentiment and tone, at the US Open Tennis Championships. By combining IBM Watson with IBM’s video capabilities, the United States Tennis Association (USTA) will be able rapidly to share highlight videos of […]
BT Sport is to stream a regular taster of its rugby union magazine show Rugby Tonight for free on social media platforms Facebook and Twitter providing potential subscribers an opportunity to sample the broadcaster’s show. The weekly hour-long show will be shown on BT Sport channels, starting tonight from 8pm, and the first quarter on […]
Just ahead of the 2017 US Open, SendtoNews Video (STN) has formed a new partnership with the Tennis Channel. The STN video library will now contain exclusive content from the Tennis Channel, featuring some of the most iconic players and tournaments in the sport. Select highlights, analysis, recaps and player interviews will all be available […]
Sky has removed ‘news channel’ Fox News from its line-up in the UK. Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox said in a statement that the channel had been withdrawn as it was not commercially viable. “Fox has decided to cease providing a feed of Fox News Channel in the UK,” the company said. “Fox News is […]
Jon Folland, Gordon Ashworth and Nick Ryan – the founders of media logistics company Nativ, which was acquired by Ooyala in 2015 – have chosen IBC 2017 to debut their latest venture, which harnesses artificial intelligence to identify, process and manage stream-based content. The entrepreneurs have taken a break from the M&E industries to pursue […]
The first episode of Channel 4’s The Great British Bake Off was watched live by an average of 5.8 million viewers. The audience for the launch show rose to 6.5 million – a 30.4 per cent audience share – when those watching on +1 were included in the figures. Peak viewing reached 7.7 million with […]
Econet Media will bring International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) competitions to its Kwesé TV platform in sub-Saharan Africa from 2018, having reached an exclusive agreement with ESPN, who were representing the IAAF. The six-year deal, brokered by ESPN’s Media Distribution unit, begins on January 1st 2018 with Kwesé TV becoming the exclusive broadcaster for […]
V-Nova, a provider of video compression solutions, and Tata Elxsi, a provider of specialised broadcast and communications engineering services, has announced a partnership that enables operators to deploy V-Nova PERSEUS technology at an accelerated pace. Tata Elxsi has already integrated V-Nova’s technology within the STB of a satellite TV operator in Europe, enabling rapid deployment […]