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BT Sport to air Bangladesh Premier League

BT Sport will be the exclusively live broadcaster of the Bangladesh Premier League, showing all 46 matches live. The league gets underway today (December 11th) as Chattogram Challengers take on Sylhet Thunder, followed by current champions Cumilla Warriors facing Rangpur Rangers. Seven teams will battle it out to make the final on January 17th 2020. […]

December 11, 2019

Netflix to tell the story of Spotify

Netflix has announced an untitled scripted series about the Swedish start-up that shook the entire music industry and evolved into becoming one of the world’s leading music services – Spotify. The limited series is inspired by the book Spotify Untold by authors Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud – both business reporters at Swedish Dagens Industri […]

December 11, 2019

Australia: Grabyo evolves Network 10 social content

Australian broadcaster Network 10 partnered with Grabyo to evolve its digital, social and mobile content strategy throughout 2019, replacing SnappyTV in the process. The partnership sees 10 utilise Grabyo’s leading cloud video platform to replicate its broadcast news content from programs such as The Project, Studio 10 and 10 News First, on social, in a […]

December 11, 2019

Amazon scores Champions League rights in Germany

On the heels of its Premier League streaming success, Amazon has acquired the rights to show selected matches from the Champions League to its subscribers in Germany, as the online giant continues to make strides into sports broadcasting in Europe. Amazon Prime Video will show ‘first-pick’ matches on Tuesday evenings of each game-week from the […]

December 10, 2019

Canal+, beIN Sports in sublicensing deal for France

Canal+ Group and beIN Sports are in talks with a view to an exclusive distribution and sublicensing deal in France. Under the proposed agreement, Canal+ would offer all beIN Sports premium sports channels and content within its Canal+ offers, while also being the exclusive distributor of beIN Sports to third-party providers across all platforms in […]

December 10, 2019By Colin Mann

France: Arte HDR on Molotov and Free

Arte has announced the launch of a 1080p demo channel called Arte HDR, produced from an HD feed, that will broadcast for the next 12 months. The channel is initially available on OTT TV platform Molotov.tv and Free’s Box One and Delta STBs, and will soon also be available on all HDR-compatible TV sets and […]

December 10, 2019From Pascale Paoli-Lebailly in Paris

Prediction: 5G to replace fibre networks in 2020

As 2019 draws to a close, Juniper Research has created its list of the top 10 technology predictions for 2020. The Top 10 5G – Last-mile fibre rollouts to be replaced by 5G connectivity. OTT TV – Advertising stakeholders to develop functional attribution Ecosystem. Mobility as a Service – Open data in transportation to drive […]

December 10, 2019

Lego goes OTT with The Lego Channel

The Lego Channel has gone live in the US and Canada and is available across all major OTT streaming platforms, including Roku, Fire TV and Apple TV. The new app, developed in partnership with the multi-platform video distribution company Future Today, boasts over 1,000 videos and features series based on various Lego properties, including Lego […]

December 10, 2019By Nik Roseveare

MovieLabs sets out cloud production security principles

Movie industry non-profit technology research lab Motion Pictures Laboratories (MovieLabs), together with member studios, has published a new white paper – The Evolution of Production Security – Securing the 10-Year Vision for the Evolution of Media Creation – that lays out security principles for the future of production where all assets will be stored in […]

December 10, 2019By Colin Mann

ESPN Player nets NHL rights

ESPN Player has secured the rights to broadcast three live NHL games a week in 61 countries. The coverage starts this week in countries including Belgium, Italy, Greece, Spain, Turkey, Nigeria, South Africa, Hungary, Romania, and covers all of sub-Saharan Africa. Fans in the countries will be able to access three live games per week […]

December 10, 2019