Chello Central Europe’s channels Sport1 and Sport2 have acquired the rights for the broadcast of Spanish Primera Division matches for the coming three seasons in Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Sport1 or Sport2 channel will feature the two showcase teams, Barcelona and Real Madrid plus the five Spanish championship matches on a weekly basis. […]
Trace Sports, a new channel dedicated to great sporting personalities and their stories, has launched in the UK on Sky. The channel will give Sky subscribers access to sports celebrities by letting them into the private lives of champions, and champions in the making, through exclusive profiles, gossip, news, documentaries and entertainment shows. Trace Sports […]
Luxembourg-based satellite operator SES has added the USA’s NASA TV to its roster of distributed channels over the US. The deal, announced today at NAB, comes via Encompass Digital Media which has signed a capacity deal with SES to make the channel available to other satellite broadcasters and cable operators throughout the US. As part […]
Intelsat, the world’s leading provider of satellite services, has revealed that the international direct-to-home (DTH) community on Intelsat’s Galaxy 19 satellite grew in several key categories in 2011. Intelsat operates the premier free-to-air U.S. ethnic DTH community aboard the Galaxy 19 satellite. Located at 97° West, Galaxy 19 provides complete coverage of the continental United […]
A further executive involved in the Australian pay-TV industry has denied allegations made by The Australian Financial Review about NDS’s conduct, reports The Australian. Former Foxtel chief technology officer Peter Smart – responsible for managing the pay-TV company’s contract with News Corporation subsidiary NDS – worked at the broadcaster from 1995 until last year, during […]
Mediaset Spain, the owner of Tele 5 and Cuatro, has renewed its FTA TV rights to the UEFA Europa League until 2015, while pay-DTT channel Gol TV has secured the pay-TV rights. Mediaset España has been awarded the rights to the best match each match week on a co-exclusive basis. The live match, as well […]
Hot on the heels of securing the rights to an iconic sporting event – the Boat Race – the BBC has confirmed the Global BBC iPlayer has secured the rights to two more iconic sporting events from the UK – the Grand National horserace and the London Marathon. In April 2012, coverage of both will […]
As part of US Ambassador Gary Locke’s Roundtable on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Protection, the Motion Picture Association (MPA) together with major Chinese online video sites Youku, Sohu, iQiyi, and LeTV have unveiled a ‘Thank You’ video featuring nearly 100 of China’s leading actors and filmmakers. Heeding a call from the MPA, China’s film community […]
Online video specialist Ooyala has unveiled its new solution in content discovery designed to enables publishers to improve dramatically monetisation of multi-screen video. In pre-release with select customers, the technology is already driving a four-fold increase in consumer engagement, meaning longer viewing periods, more videos completed and increased revenue. As the newest addition to its […]
Liberty Global’s European cable operations in Germany (Unitymedia and Kabel BW), Netherlands (UPC), Austria (UPC) and Switzerland (upc cablecom) have reached agreements with ESPN for carriage of sports channels. With a combination of renewals and new launches, ESPN America HD, ESPN America and ESPN Classic will be available to European households that get their television […]