FremantleMedia Enterprises has announced a digital licensing agreement with Netflix to bring a raft of classic comedy and drama titles to Netflix members across the UK and Ireland. Netflix has acquired 115 hours of FME’s extensive programming catalogue including Australian crime series, The Strip; and popular drama, Falcon Beach.
The BBC has announced an extension of its deal with SFR across its satellite, DSL and fibre offers. The international news and information channel is now available on SFR satellite neufbox TV offer (channel 221). Formerly included in the package le Bouquet Sélection, BBC World News became available last month on SFR’s neufbox and neufbox […]
The USA’s Weather Channel is looking to expand overseas. On January 24th it announced a new CEO, David Kenny. Weather Channel is owned by a consortium led by Bain Capital, Blackstone Group and NBC Universal. Kenny is already a director of Yahoo, and most recently held a senior position at Akamai. He said he’d like […]
ES3 and Pace have formed a partnership for intelligent customer care and self-service TV applications for Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV Operators. Under this new partnership, ES3 and Pace will work together on utility-based TV applications leveraging the intelligence of Pace’s hardware, Customer Care and service management programmes. Jonathan Cobb, SVP Services at Pace commented, “This extended […]
Bouygues Telecom and cloud gaming company Playcast Media Systems have announced the launch of Bbox games, a cloud gaming service for France. For the first time in Europe, Bouygues Telecom triple play subscribers will be able to play console-quality video games on their TVs without requiring additional hardware. Bouygues Telecom’s Bbox IPTV subscribers will have […]
News Corp is making a play for the 50 million-strong Hispanic market in the US with plans to launch a free-to-air Spanish-language television network this autumn in partnership with RCN Television Group, the Colombian broadcaster. Branded ‘MundoFox’, it will go up against Univision, the private equity-owned market leader in Spanish language television in the US, […]
BBC Worldwide has selected Comcast Media Center (CMC) to deliver programming from CBeebies, its Spanish-language TV channel for pre-school children, via the CMC’s VoD content distribution platform, the two companies have confirmed. CMC’s VoD distribution encompasses cable systems across multiple MSOs serving more than 56 million VoD-enabled households in the US and Canada.
Germany’s Bundesliga football rights for the 2013-14 to 2016-17 seasons are coming up for grabs. Sky Deutschland currently holds most of the rights. While the Tender documents have yet to be published (they are due out in the next few days) there’s now considerable doubt as to whether Sky’s arch rival Deutsche Telekom (DT) will […]
Digital TV technology specialist NDS is claiming victory in a long-running dispute with US satellite operator EchoStar and associated companies, following a US Supreme Court ruling. The Supreme Court of the United States of America has denied a petition to hear the challenge by EchoStar Satellite Corporation, now known as Dish Network LLC, EchoStar Communications […]
EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding has called for governments to strike a balance between policing the Internet to protect copyright and upholding freedom of expression. “The protection of creators must never be used as pretext to intervene in the freedom of the Internet,” Reding told the DLD conference on innovation, digital media, science and culture […]