Sky Studios has announced its collaboration with writer-director Philipp Leinemann, one of Germany’s most celebrated film-makers. The deal will see Leinemann write, develop and direct German and international Sky Originals for the company. Sky Studios CEO Gary Davies commented: “This is great news for Sky Studios’ ambitions in Germany. Phillip is a top-level talent with […]
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has selected cloud computing and web service provider Leaseweb as the preferred international distributor for Eurovision Flow. Leaseweb will also contribute their Multi-CDN solutions to the stack of services provided in Eurovision Flow. The agreement will accommodate the growth of Eurovision Flow, which has become one of the leading brands […]
Tastemade has announced the launch of its streaming network — featuring programming in the categories of Food, Travel, and Home & Design — on VIZIO SmartCast TVs and leading TV streaming service, Sling TV. Now, 14 million more viewers in the US have access to Tastemade’s premium lifestyle content by streaming through VIZIO SmartCast TVs […]
The US Government has published a report that places Saudi Arabia on its Priority Watch List, related in large part to the piracy by beoutQ, while also exceptionally announcing an ‘Out-of-Cycle Review’ into Saudi
Amazon has agreed with the National Football League (NFL) for a three-year deal to continue streaming NFL Thursday night games. Amazon Prime Video and Twitch will stream the 11 Thursday Night Football games broadcast by FOX, which will be available to more than 150 million paid Prime members worldwide, and in over 200 countries and […]
The coronavirus is helping all broadcasters and OTT streamers win record audiences for their output. Cable news channels in the US are all generating big increases as the viewing public seeks around-the-clock news coverage on the pandemic. April saw the ‘big three’ news channels register significant increases according to Nielsen on the same period a […]
Eurosport and Global Cycling Network (GCN) are bringing live cycling back to millions of sports fans through the Zwift’s Tour for All exhibition racing series, a professional racing tour to be held on the Zwift virtual platform over five stages raced May 4th – 8th. Featuring teams from both the men’s and women’s World Tours, […]
Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group), the Nordic streaming company, has announced that it is in ongoing discussions with potential partners to invest in the accelerated development of its scripted drama output and operations, which account for approximately 45 per cent of NENT Studios sales. NENT Group has also recommenced the process to divest its non-scripted, […]
Red Dot, produced by SF Studios, is set to be the first Netflix feature film coming out of Sweden, with the cast featuring Nanna Blondell, Anastasios Soulis, Tomas Bergström, Kalled Mustonen, Johannes Bah Kuhnke, Thomas Hanzon and Anna Azcárate. The movie and will be launched exclusively on Netflix globally on a date TBD. Red Dot […]
Sinclair Networks-owned Tennis Channel has launched an international subscription streaming service, the first-stage roll out for what is intended to become a global tennis-media destination. Initially launching in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, with plans for other worldwide markets, the over-the-top (OTT) platform will offer content on the new Tennis Channel International app, with the service […]