Current TV, the peer-to-peer news and information network, announced that it has reached a distribution agreement with SKY Italia. The deal, which calls for an Italian version of Current TV will add an additional 4.24 million households to the network's global reach, making Current TV available in 56 million households worldwide. “By being the world’s […]
MTV and Sony BMG are to provide programme clips and music videos across the MSN Video service.The deal will see clips and music videos made available via MSN Video across European countries including the UK, France and Germany. The deal builds on the wide-ranging $500m advertising and content agreement struck by MTV owner Viacom and […]
blinkx, the video search engine, has unveiled a partnership with Young Hollywood to offer users a backstage pass to the site's exclusive celebrity programming. Young Hollywood, an online destination for entertainment, provides users with original content from celebrity interviews and news to behind the scenes coverage of Hollywood events. Under the terms of the agreement, […]
News Corps Fox network sold $250 million (E170m) in advertising revenue on the strength of the most-watched Super Bowl ever – a performance that chief executive Rupert Murdoch called “the biggest day in our company's history”. He was speaking as News Corp announced that its second quarter profits edged up 1.2 per cent to $832 […]
Modern Times Group (MTG) has confirmed that Viasat Broadcasting has signed an agreement with Canal Digital in Sweden to include the Kanal 5 channel on Viasat's DTH satellite and IPTV platforms, and for TV3 to be made available on the Canal Digital satellite and IPTV platforms. The channels will be included in Viasat's and Canal […]
Mobile phone companies O2 and 3 are merging their user generated video clip sites into one portal to be renamed EyeVibe, which anyone with a video-enabled mobile phone will be able to access. Users will be able to upload their own short videos to the service and every time they are viewed by someone else […]
To coincide with the launch of the fourth season, Sky customers can now watch full episodes Lost via Sky Anytime on PC, as well as catch up on content on Sky.com, and watch clips from the series on their mobile phone via Sky Mobile TV. In addition, Sky+ and all Sky HD viewers will be […]
The French football authorities have extended the time for bidding on the TV rights to top football. The bidding, run by the Ligue de Football Professionnel, has been subject to court actions by the current rights holder Canal+. The new contract will run from the start of the 2008/09 season through until 2011/12.
Disney-ABC International Television has reached agreements with the owners of the Korean VOD IPTV services Mega TV and HanaTV, to supply television series and movie content for on-demand viewing. Under the two agreements, viewers of the KT Corporation-owned Mega TV and HanaTV, owned by Hanaro Telecom, will have access to U.S. series such as Grey's […]
E4 will launch the second series of its hit drama Skins online with the first episode played out on the channel's website and on social network site MySpace in the week before its transmission on TV.