CBS and Amazon.com have signed a licensing agreement for the new CBS television series Under the Dome, establishing an in-season, online subscription-video-on-demand (SVoD) window for the show on Amazon’s Prime Instant Video service. Prime Instant Video will be the exclusive online subscription home for Under the Dome. The serialised drama from Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television […]
Doctor Who will celebrate its birthday this year with a special 3D edition on November 23rd – exactly 50 years after its first ever adventure. Viewers will be able to see the 3D version of the episode entitled “An Unearthly Child” on the BBC HD channel. Doctor Who’s executive producer and lead writer, Steven Moffat, […]
Rightster has acquired Preview Networks, a European distributor of movie trailers, allowing Rightster to roll out YouTube services out across Europe and to establish itself as having one of the largest YouTube Multi Channel Network footprints in the world. Preview Networks will add more than 300 rights holders and 2,500 publishers including Disney, MTV and […]
NBC Universal has concluded a deal with Hearst Magazines to rebrand the G4 network as the Esquire Network. The idea is a channel that’s “an upscale Bravo for men.” G4 currently concentrates on video games and gadget reviews. NBC is hoping to capture a more educated, affluent, sophisticated male viewer, who is not being served, […]
Controversial Iran-backed news channel Press TV has been removed from Intelsat’s Galaxy-19 satellite (97 degrees West), meaning that cable headends in the US and Canada can no longer pick up the channel. The channel has, one way or another, been banned over Europe and taken off the air by satellite operators as varied as Eutelsat, […]
Channel 4 has been rewarded for its well-received coverage of the London 2012 Paralympics by being granted the UK television rights to the Rio 2016 Paralympics and the Sochi Winter Paralympics in 2014. As part of the deal – the first two-Games TV deal agreed by the International Paralympic Committee – Channel 4 has committed […]
Two new cases of the piracy practice known as card sharing have been brought to resolution in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The cases involved the theft of services from UPC DTH (operating the brand freeSAT in these markets), enabling the illegal reception of services and depriving UPC of payment. Following criminal complaints filed by […]
Canal Digital and SBS Broadcasting Networks have signed a new three-year contract giving Canal Digital continued exclusive rights to SBS’s satellite TV channels in the Nordic countries. “SBS’s channels give our customers in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland access to a varied menu of excellent content. Canal Digital satellite TV and SBS have enjoyed a […]
Verimatrix, the specialist in securing and enhancing revenue for multi-network, multi-screen digital TV services, has announced that Ivi.ru, the popular free Internet cinema in Russia, has deployed the Verimatrix Video Content Authority (VCAS) for Internet TV to provide security for its OTT VoD service. Ivi.ru boasts one of Russia’s largest VoD catalogues on a wide […]
The Apostolic Oneness Network (AON), the global Christian TV network, has selected SatLink to distribute its premium channel internationally. The new arrangement will extend AON’s audience reach in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas over SatLink’s prime international satellite network. SatLink will broadcast AON TV to Europe in KU band on Eutelsat 9 and to […]