Sky Deutschland has held off the challenge of Deutsche Telekom in an auction for broadcast rights for German Bundesliga football, the German Football League (DFL) said. The rights cover the four seasons starting in 2013/14 and will fetch an overall €2.5 billion or an average €628 million per season, DFL said. The deal represents an […]
BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield, writing for the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival’s Future of Film blog, has suggested that forcing consumers to attend/pay for a movie in a theatre for the first three-four months of a film’s lifespan is increasingly archaic, with advances in display technology meaning the stage is set for the ‘home’ to become […]
Google has struck a deal with MGM to add more than 600 titles for rent to YouTube and Google Play users in the US and Canada. MGM joins five of the six major studios and over ten independent movie studios, currently offering movies for rent on YouTube and Google Play. Noting a recent IHS Screen […]
IP-based communications service provider Level 3 Communications has completed a substantial expansion of the global capacity of its content delivery network (CDN). The expansion, which was completed in less than two years, more than doubles the company’s CDN capacity to support customer growth and increased demand. Level 3 has increased its globally available CDN capacity […]
The Mobile500 Alliance, a broadcast consortium comprised of 50 member companies covering 94 per cent of US television households, has detailed the business model and enhanced features for Mobile DTV, including new interactive advertising and an improved user experience that features social media integration with Twitter and closed captioning for the hearing impaired. The Mobile500 […]
Starz Entertainment DirecTV, have announced that the companies have entered into a multi-platform distribution agreement extension. The new deal provides for DirecTV to continue to offer the Starz Entertainment premium channels, HD, and on-demand services, and grants DirecTV the rights to offer Starz Online and Encore Online services on its DirecTV Everywhere service, which is […]
Fox International Channels (FIC), News Corp’s international channels group, has announced the re-brand of the recently acquired Suomi TV to FOX. The new free-to-air network brings the FOX brand and some of its best entertainment to Finnish television viewers for the first time. FOX Finland will introduce a range of new programming as it expands […]
Penthouse Digital Media Productions continues to broaden its HD channel footprint in Europe by teaming up with KPN to launch the Penthouse HD 1 Channel on the KPN platform. KPN, the leading national telecommunications and IT service provider in the Netherlands, reaches approximately six hundred thousand households. The Penthouse HD family of channels was launched […]
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has told The Guardian that the entertainment industry is “shooting itself in the foot, or maybe worse than in the foot” by lobbying for legislation to block sites offering pirate material. According to Brin, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) bills championed by the film and […]
LG Electronics (LG) has agreed a partnership with UK-based digital sports media company Perform, provider of LIVESPORT.TV, an application that will deliver thousands of hours of live and on demand sports content to LG’s CINEMA 3D Smart TV. “This marks a significant partnership for LG,” said Havis Kwon, President and CEO of LG Home Entertainment […]