European content (film and TV) represents 30 per cent of all content found on TVoD and 26 per cent of SVoD in the EU if considered as film and TV series titles and/or seasons (as opposed to individual episodes) according to the latest report from the European Audiovisual Observatory. Counting individual episodes, European content (film […]
On-demand platform Rakuten will exclusively release Matchday – Inside FC Barcelona for free across 42 European countries, including the UK, as well as in Japan, on November 29th. The series, which consists of 8 x 45min episodes, follows the famous football club and its players through milestones of the 2018-2019 season, casting new light on […]
beIN Media Group and Dentsu, on behalf of FIFA, have announced a two-year media rights agreement that will see beIN Sports exclusively broadcast the FIFA Club World Cup in 24 countries across the Middle East & North Africa region. Set to take place in Qatar for the first time, both the 2019 and 2020 editions […]
Insight TV, the 4K HDR broadcaster, content creator and format seller, has launched on Swiss cable operator UPC, which is owned by Liberty Global. UPC subscribers can look forward to Insight TV’s line-up of shows in 4K including the new series Street Kings in Jail, the recently launched eSports show Modern Day Gladiators as well […]
CNN is celebrating the tenth anniversary of its Middle East hub in Abu Dhabi and looking ahead to expansion plans at the network’s key newsgathering, production, broadcasting and commercial centre. November marks a decade since CNN first went on air live from Abu Dhabi. Since then it has increased its footprint in the Emirate, made […]
Netshow Capital, an Irish investment vehicle specialised in the production of TV series and their monetisation, is to invest €30 million over the next two years in international TV series. Its goal is to build a portfolio of eight to 10 high-quality TV series with an international appeal across markets and distribution channels; it will […]
SPI International has announced a licence agreement with DocuBay, the international membership-based VoD streaming service dedicated to premium documentary feature films. The licence deal includes seven of SPI International’s visually groundbreaking and insightful premium titles such as Turandot, Small Cams – Big Beasts, Time Hopper, Eye to Eye with Everest: Death on a Mountain, Invisible […]
The Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Alliance (AAPA) has welcomed two publications from the European Union Intellectual Property Office’s Observatory on IP Infringements. The first study – Illegal IPTV in the European Union – carried out by the University of Bournemouth illustrates the complexities of illegal streaming business models and the technologies used and, for the first time, […]
French commercial broadcasters TF1 and M6 have secured and will share the TV rights to UEFA Euro 2020 football tournament that will take place in twelve European cities between June 12th and July 12th. Both groups will share the FTA broadcasts of the 23 best matches of the championship, including the opening match and the […]
Statistical Multiplexing (Statmux) is now available with AWS Elemental MediaLive. Statmux is a technology used in live broadcast workflows that allocates bits in real time among multiple live video channels. It instantaneously adjusts the bitrate of each channel in the statmux pool to make the best use of total available bandwidth and combines the encoded […]