Sky is to establish a new distribution arm to market the international rights to its originated content. As part of the move, Sky has completed the acquisition of Parthenon Media Group, an independent international distribution and multi-media rights management company. In line with Sky’s on-going commitment to increasing its investment in original content, the creation […]
Viewster and Warner Bros have signed a distribution deal that will see the Studio’s current releases and brand new blockbusters, as well as around 1000 catalogue titles made available via Viewster’s VoD platform. This two-part deal will make some of Warner Bros’ most popular content available to Viewster users in German-speaking territories – beginning with […]
AMC/Sundance Channel Global has announced new distribution deals for Sundance Channel in Asia and expanded on demand offerings in Europe. Sundance Channel will be seen for the first time in Thailand on TrueVisions, the country’s largest pay-TV operator and the second largest DTH platform in Southeast Asia. Sundance On-Demand will also début in China for […]
The Football Association (FA) has agreed a new six season deal with BBC Sport and TalkSport for the radio commentary rights for all men’s and women’s FA Cup and International matches along with the Community Shield. The deal covers the qualification campaigns for the 2014 and 2018 World Cups, and the 2016 European Championships. The […]
Announcing its Q1 results, UK telco TalkTalk has confirmed the launch of Free TV for its TalkTalk Plus customers. Dido Harding, Chief Executive of TalkTalk, said customers would be able to pre-register immediately for their free YouView set-top box with no additional monthly subscription. The package also includes TalkTalk Player, 12 months free subscription to […]
Credit ratings agency Fitch Ratings believes that higher programming costs and increasing forms of alternative entertainment will challenge both cable network programmers and pay-TV distributors going forward, suggesting in a market commentary that pay-TV providers face additional costs and a reduced ability to pass those increases off to a mostly more vulnerable customer base that […]
UKTV, the independent television network co-owned by BBC Worldwide and Scripps Networks International, has inked a major deal with TalkTalk to carry all of its branded channels and selected video-on-demand programmes on TalkTalk’s YouView platform. TalkTalk subscribers will have access to all of UKTV’s pay TV channels (Watch, Gold, Alibi, Eden, Good Food, Home and […]
To coincide with the beginning of the school holidays, dozens of popular children’s shows including SpongeBob SquarePants, Ben10 and Regular Show are now available to watch on-demand on Sky Go on smartphones and mobile tablets. On-demand content from eight children’s channels, including Cartoon Network, the Disney Channel and Nickelodeon, is now available through the app, […]
NBC has confirmed that is to repeat its exercise of offering full-episode, pre-sampling versions of its new fall (autumn) series prior to the network time-period premières as each new primetime programme will receive a digital sampling window for marketing and promotional purposes over multiple platforms leading into the regular series première As NBC takes advantage […]
Several UK Internet service providers have refused to sign a code of conduct designed to guarantee “full and open access” to the net. Ten ISPs including BT, O2 and TalkTalk backed the agreement, promising not to restrict or block content unless there was a reason to deploy “reasonable traffic management practices”. But Virgin Media said […]