While Netflix caught the attention of the TV world last year when it ended HBO’s 18-year stretch of earning the most Emmy nominations, this year, HBO reclaimed the spot with 137 nominations to Netflix’s 117. But how much did each spend to earn such success? Kill the Cable Bill, providers of industry trend analysis, crunched the numbers for […]
Mediaset Spain will pay a huge bill for La Liga, Champions and Europa League rights if its streaming service Mitele Plus proves to be a success. According to El Economista, Mediaset will have to pay Movistar over €60 million if its new OTT service captures 270,000 subscribers. The minimum payment will be €20 million per […]
Streaming company Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) has acquired the exclusive Nordic media rights to Rugby World Cup 2019. Every match from this year’s tournament, which features 20 teams and will take place in Japan from September 20th to November 2nd, will be available live for rugby union fans across the region on NENT Group’s […]
Netflix and WWE are partnering for a live-action family series called The Big Show Show. The comedy will feature WWE superstar Paul Wight, better known as The Big Show. Netflix is contracted for ten episodes. The elevator pitch for the show says: “When the teenage daughter of The Big Show, a retired world-famous WWE Superstar, […]
We are now staring down the barrel of a no-deal Brexit. How did that happen? Doubtless various creatives are already planning ‘the Brexit biopic’ but this is not the time to contemplate what calumny brought us here. We are where we are. And it isn’t a good place. A handful of mainly old, white, southern […]
The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) – a global coalition dedicated to protecting the dynamic legal market and reducing online piracy – has welcomed the sentencing of two operators of the Uruguay-based piracy outfit, Pelispedia to three years and four months jail time by the prosecutor’s office in Montevideo. Approximately $500,000 (€449,377) in assets […]
The Asian global sports media property, ONE Championship, has launched what it says is Asia’s largest eSports world championship series with ONE Esports’ first confirmed events of the 2019-2020 season. In addition, Carlos Alimurung has been named CEO of ONE Esports, and will be responsible for designing ONE Esports’ vision and strategy, setting the company’s […]
The investments made in Spain by streaming sports platform DAZN are not paying off as expected. Increased competition from traditional TV operators – with their own OTT platforms such as Mediaset’s Mitele Plus – as well as the lack of key sports TV rights such as La Liga, and declining audience ratings for MotoGP, are […]
UK cricket fans can watch the sport, free of charge, on Sports Channel Network (SCN) as the OTT channel signs up the new European Cricket League and the Hong Kong Cricket Sixes. SCN, which is available on channel 266 on Freeview and YouView and via an online APP, is an OTT Video on Demand channel […]
Insight TV, the 4K UHD HDR broadcaster and producer of native UHD content, is creating two music series with the world-famous music festival Tomorrowland as its backdrop. The stylish 4K HDR productions will focus on the antics of the people who come back to this fairytale festival year after year, as well as the globally […]