The National Football League (NFL) and Pluto TV, the free streaming television service in the US, have announced the launch of a new channel celebrating the NFL’s iconic and classic moments spanning over a decade of past seasons. The NFL Channel provided by Pluto TV is a specially curated feed of iconic library content devoted to […]
Limelight Networks, a provider of edge cloud services, has expanded the management and configuration capabilities of its suite of services with new Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and web portal offerings. With these new capabilities in addition to existing APIs and Software Development Kits, developers now have more power to manage and monitor services across Limelight’s edge cloud […]
WWE and USA Network have confirmed a long-rumoured agreement to air WWE’s weekly show, NXT, live on USA Network starting September 18th. Following NXT’s growth in popularity, the new two-hour weekly show, previously only available on the WWE Newtwork SVoD service, will expand its reach on USA Network, the US cable channel, while staying in […]
In July 2019, investigators from UK intellectual property protection organisation FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft) and UK law enforcement agencies attended sixteen premises across the UK serving Cease and Desist notices to individuals suspected of supplying illegal sports streaming content. The initiative was a collaboration between the Premier League and FACT aimed at preventing the […]
Motion Pictures Laboratories (MovieLabs), together with member studios, has published a new white paper presenting an industry vision for the future of media creation technology by 2030. The paper, The Evolution off Media Creation, jointly authored by MovieLabs and technology leadership teams from Hollywood studios, paints a bold picture of future technology and discusses the […]
ESPN and the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL), the longest-standing professional women’s soccer league in the US, have reached an exclusive agreement for worldwide rights (excluding US) to the league’s regular season and playoff matches. ESPN already holds the rights to NWSL broadcasts in the US via a separate agreement announced earlier this year. ESPN’s […]
Eros Now, the OTT South Asian entertainment platform owned by Eros International, a global Indian entertainment company, has announced its partnership with Wasu Media to deliver Bollywood and original Indian content to Chinese digital customers. Wasu Media is a major cable television, broadband network OTT and IPTV service provider in China. Commenting on the partnership, […]
AC Milan, the Italian top flight football team, has released a new mobile app exclusively on the iOS platform. The app offered free live stream of a friendly match at launch this pask weekend, as the team beat Cesena by 3 goals to nil. Available for free in Italian and English, the App offers an […]
Dalet, a provider of solutions and services for broadcasters and content professionals, has signed a deal with Austrian private broadcaster group ProSiebenSat.1 PULS 4 to fully revamp their media operation with the agile Dalet Galaxy five Media Asset Management (MAM), Workflow Orchestration and Editorial platform. The Dalet Galaxy five installation will equip the broadcaster with […]
The Walt Disney Company has confirmed global launch dates and pricing for Disney+ in Canada, The Netherlands, Australia, and New Zealand, and announced it has reached global agreements with nearly all the major platforms to distribute the Disney+ app across partner mobile and connected TV devices. Disney+ will offer what the company calls ‘unparalleled content […]