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STV and Milkshake join YouView

STV’s video on-demand service is now available through YouView, the BBC-backed hybrid Freeview set top box. The Scottish broadcaster’s VoD app is available to access for YouView customers in STV licence areas of Scotland. Viewers can watch STV programmes live and also catch up on shows from the ITV Network, such as Coronation Street and […]

August 29, 2012

ESPN, MLB agree $5.6bn eight-year extension

ESPN and Major League Baseball in the US have reached an eight-year, multiplatform and multi-regional rights extension which will significantly enhance ESPN’s TV, digital and radio rights to MLB in the US and around the world. The agreement – effective 2014 through 2021 – is worth $5.6 billion. The agreement covers rights for the US, […]

August 29, 2012

ESPN brings ICC Cricket to FOX Australia

ESPN Star Sports (ESS), the global telecast and marketing rights partner with the International Cricket Council (ICC), have entered into a cricket distribution agreement for Australia with FOX Sports to carry the world’s premier ICC events through to 2015. This extends ESPN Star Sports’ syndication and distribution of premium ICC events to more than 218 […]

August 29, 2012

Love Football channel on YouTube

YouTube has teamed with digital specialists Rightster and international sports media rights agency MP & Silva, to bring the best of international football content to YouTube This partnership creates a new football channel on YouTube, Love Football, which will include highlights from Italy’s Serie A, France’s Ligue 1, US Major League Soccer, Brazil’s Serie A […]

August 28, 2012

Ericsson: TV & social media go together

The results of Ericsson ConsumerLab’s annual study reveal that social TV is becoming a mass-market phenomenon. Sixty-two per cent of consumers use social media while watching TV on a weekly basis, an increase of 18 per centage points in one year. By gender, 66 per cent of women engage in this behaviour, compared to 58 […]

August 28, 2012

Hisense unveils $99 Google TV Pulse

Consumer electronics manufacturer Hisense is to unveil its Hisense Pulse with Google TV device at the IFA trade fair in Berlin August 31st- September 5th prior to its retail debut in North America mid-November. The Hisense Pulse with Google TV connects to any television with an HDMI input and enables consumers to enjoy the richest […]

August 28, 2012By Colin Mann

Amazon adds NBCU content to Prime Instant Video

Amazon has announced an expanded content licensing agreement with NBCUniversal Cable & New Media Distribution, adding hundreds of popular and award-winning TV episodes to Prime Instant Video, including prior seasons of Parks and Recreation, Heroes, Battlestar Galactica and more. Prime Instant Video now features more than 22,000 movies and TV episodes for Prime members to […]

August 28, 2012

Doctor Who time travels for Australia’s ABC

In a move that will help forestall pirating of its big ticket shows, Australian broadcaster ABC is to premiere the first episode of season seven of Doctor Who – Asylum of the Daleks – on its online service iview Sunday September 2 from 5.10am EST immediately after its UK launch on September 1. ABC1 Controller […]

August 28, 2012By Colin Mann

Electric Sky content on blinkbox

UK and Hong Kong based distributor Electric Sky has confirmed a major content partnership deal with Tesco-owned UK digital platform blinkbox. Twenty five hours of content are now available on blinkbox including Olympics title Going for Green: Britain’s 2012 Dream by Darlow Smithson Productions, and Fashion Avenue Series 3 with Jodie Kidd. Mario Cerna, Sales […]

August 28, 2012

Netflix defends UK ‘over spend’

The chief content officer of Netflix has defended it from accusations that it is paying uneconomically high rates as part of a land grab in the UK VoD market. Ted Sarandos told the Guardian that Netflix was prepared to pay a “tremendous amount of money” for the exclusive rights to show popular films and TV […]

August 24, 2012