Eredivisie, the Dutch football premier league, has launched a new app available exclusively on all Samsung Smart devices – TVs, Blu-ray players and home entertainment systems. The app will allow users to watch live Eredivisie action priced at €6.95 per match, as well as view highlights from the previous week’s games.
Italy’s second football league division will get its own TV channel, as the result of a three-year partnership deal currently being negotiated by the League Serie B and broadcaster Europa 7 HD. Serie B TV will air live matches of 22 football teams in the Serie B regular season – excluding advance and deferred games […]
The UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal has ruled in favour of satellite broadcaster BSkyB’s appeal against Ofcom’s decision to modify Sky’s licences in respect of supplying its core premium sports channels (CPSCs) to other platforms such as BT and Virgin Media. The new licence conditions required Sky to offer to wholesale its CPSCs to retailers on […]
maxdome has entered a multi-year licensing agreement with NBCUniversal International Television Distribution for the VoD rights in Germany to a broad selection of current and upcoming NBCUniversal feature films, as well as a collection of library classics. Markus Härtenstein, managing director maxdome, said: “Closing this deal means that we are now cooperating with all major […]
WRN Broadcast has been selected by Nautical Channel, the specialist nautical sports and lifestyle broadcaster, to provide fibre distribution to the US for three years, with supporting data centre and content management services. WRN Broadcast’s solution was created specifically to meet the channel’s expanding global distribution plans. From its launch in 2011, Nautical Channel is […]
Despite its much criticised Olympic coverage, NBC Sports Network averaged 956,000 viewers on Monday making it the most-watched total day ever in network history. Monday’s coverage featured the USA women’s soccer team’s semi-final victory over Canada, and the USA men’s basketball team’s win over Argentina. This was the third time during these Games that NBC […]
NHK’s English-language World TV channel has added Myanmar (Burma) to its distribution coverage. It is available to viewers on the local Skynet bouquet of channels. Also available is NHK’s World Premium channel, a pay-TV service. Myanmar is very much in the international spotlight as it continues to make progress toward democracy. Opposition leader Aung San […]
The app for YouTube is missing from the next version of Apple’s iOS6 operating system. Apple said the app had been removed because its licence to produce the program had expired. The Apple-made version of the YouTube app has been a staple on the iPhone’s iOS since the device was first launched in 2007. Apple […]
BSkyB is launching an entire HD channel dedicated to James Bond called Sky Movies 007. Sky bought the rights to the Bond back catalogue in a deal with MGM in April this year, bringing to an end ITV’s almost 40-year hold on the franchise. The HD channel, which will launch on October 5th and be […]
Samsung Electronics has formed an alliance with Verizon, the biggest telco in the US, to boost content for smart TVs. The two companies will offer IPTV content, including VoD, through the Verizon FiOS App on Samsung’s smart TV. Some 120 million consumers subscribing to Verizon telecom services will be able to view such content without […]