Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone has reached an agreement with Canal+ for the broadcast of Grand Prix racing in France for the next three years. The race broadcasts will be shown on pay-TV, but the agreement includes the airing of a free-to-air magazine programme. Canal+ will also show free-practice and qualifying sessions. The deal is […]
Further reinforcing its programming repertoire in its online entertainment sector battle with players such as Netflix, Amazon.com has secured an expanded content licensing agreement to bring classic series and hit TV shows from CBS Television Distribution and Showtime Networks to Amazon’s Prime Instant Video service, extending the catalogue of CBS content available for Prime members […]
IGN Entertainment, the video games media company, has launched a new IGN app on Roku streaming devices. The new IGN channel on Roku gives customers access to hours of IGN’s content, from original series to video reviews and game help videos, to exclusive live streams and more. Roku joins iOS, Android, Kindle Fire, YouTube and […]
The Citrix ByteMobile Mobile Analytics Report for the first quarter of 2013 provides insights into subscriber behaviour and related factors that determine quality of experience (QoE) for mobile data services today. The findings highlight subscriber behaviour on various mobile applications and the impact this has on operator networks. In conjunction with the report, consumer survey […]
OTE has won the English Premier League football TV rights for this coming August, and then up to the 2016/2017 season. OTE’s COO Zacharias Piperidis said that addition of the English Premier League will be added to OTE TV’s other exclusive coverage of all the major national soccer championships, including the Spanish, Italian and German […]
Comcast Corporation and Fox Networks (FN) have reached an agreement for a new distribution pact to deliver Fox Broadcasting’s (FOX) and Fox Television Stations’ (FTS) wide array of entertainment, sports and local news content to Comcast Xfinity TV customers across televisions, computers, smartphones, tablets, gaming consoles and Internet-enabled televisions. The renewal supports the companies’ mutual […]
Following the success of its House of Cards original drama commission, Internet television network Netflix is teaming up with DreamWorks Animation to create the first ever Netflix Original Series for kids. Based on the highly-anticipated DreamWorks Animation movie Turbo, premièring in theatres this summer, the Netflix series Turbo: F.A.S.T. (Fast Action Stunt Team) débuts exclusively […]
Sony Corp is being sued by high-end camera maker Red Digital for alleged patent infringements. Last week another camera maker ARRI settled an action with Red Digital. Red’s digital cameras are used on many Hollywood movies, notably The Hobbit trilogy. This fresh action says that three very high-end Sony cameras use and “embody the [patents] […]
The new 24-hour news and entertainment channel for the Latino market in the US is to be called Fusion. Its backers are Univision and ABC News, a unit of the Walt Disney Company, and it has carriage deals covering at least 20 million homes. Fusion will have its premiere late this summer as the first […]
Amazon’s Lovefilm has extended its content deal with BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC. There was already a programming agreement with Worldwide, but the new agreement gives it rights to a wider range of content from the distributor. Jim Buckle, managing director at Lovefilm, said: “The evolution of our TV offering has been […]