Sportdigital has launched pay-TV sports EDGEsport in Germany, Austria and Switzerland after securing carriage deals with Sky Deutschland and OTT platform Waipu.tv. The channel offers content in including skiing, surfing, skateboarding and snowboarding, as well as sports documentaries. The channel is being operated in German-speaking territories by Sportdigital through a sublicensing agreement with the IMG […]
Amazon Prime Video is teaming up with 6x Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Kacey Musgraves on a Christmas themed special titled The Kacey Musgraves Christmas Show. Produced by Fulwell 73 Productions, the show will premiere globally on November 29th and marks Prime Video’s first ever holiday special. The Kacey Musgraves Christmas Show is executive produced by Ben […]
NAGRA, a Kudelski Group company and independent provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions, has announced today the extension of its content protection partnership with Openview, South Africa’s leading free-to-air direct-to-home satellite television service provider. NAGRA Protect cardless content protection solutions will continue to secure eMedia, the operator’s Openview free-to-view (FTV) satellite television platform. […]
A survey by Pop Culture Marketing agency Experience12 reveals that TV has fallen even further from favour among MCM Comic Con attendees with just 34 per cent saying it’s their preferred viewing device, a 13 per cent decrease since May, with both tablets and consoles increasing their share of interest. Experience12 polled 1,008 fans at […]
As the Formula One circus pitched up in Austin, Texas, for the US Grand Prix, ESPN and Formula 1 revealed they have forged a new agreement that will keep the FIA Formula One World Championship on ESPN and ABC through 2022. F1 returned to the ESPN networks in 2018, seeing double-digit television viewership growth in […]
ITV’s exclusive coverage of the Rugby World Cup Final on November 2nd reached an audience peak of 12.8 million viewers making it the most watched TV moment of 2019 on any channel. This was the biggest audience for a rugby match since the 2007 Rugby World Cup Final (also between England and South Africa). Some […]
A record 1.6 million viewers tuned in to watch Radio 2 Live In Hyde Park on BBC Red Button this year. The annual one-day festival, which took place on September 15th, featured performances from Simply Red, Kelsea Ballerini, Bananarama, Clean Bandit, Status Quo and Pet Shop Boys. The headline set from the Pet Shop Boys […]
Amazon Prime Video surprised fans by globally releasing the second season of action-thriller Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, starring John Krasinski, a day early. The announcement was made by Krasinski himself via social channels in which immediately following his posting the series went live on Prime Video. In the second season of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, after tracking a […]
The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) – a global coalition dedicated to protecting the dynamic legal market and reducing online piracy – has achieved another major win when the operator of two giant sources of illegal, unauthorised content, agreed to cease all operations. Prior to this ACE action, Openload and Streamango were massive piracy […]
Current model year OLED TVs from LG Electronics will receive a firmware update starting this week allowing for enhanced gameplay via NVIDIA G-Sync Compatible technology. NVIDIA G-Sync Compatibility will be available on LG’s 2019 OLED TV models E9 (65 and 55 inches), C9 (77, 65 and 55 inches) as well as B9 (65 and 55 […]