Bohemian Rhapsody is the champion on the Official Film Chart, climbing to Number 1 in the same week it picked up four Oscars at the 91st Academy Awards. OfficialCharts.com has also revealed that Bohemian Rhapsody is the UK’s fastest-selling digital download movie of all time, selling nearly 265,000 digital copies in its first eight days. […]
Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) announced its latest partnership in Germany with multiplay telco Deutsche Telekom to launch Nick+, a branded Nickelodeon area on Deutsche Telekom’s MagentaTV service on March 1st. The partnership includes 900 episodes of Nickelodeon content from animated hits such as SpongeBob SquarePants, The Loud House and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, as well as […]
Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) has announced the launch of Paramount+ in Finland with broadband, mobile and TV operator Telia. Paramount+ initially launched in the Nordics in 2017 as a set-top box and TV Everywhere application available to higher tier subscribers of pay TV operators. This Telia partnership marks the first time that the product […]
GINX Esports TV has reached a multi-territory carriage agreement with Southeast Asian entertainment service, iflix. The launch makes the world’s biggest eSports TV channel, as well as a significant VoD offering, available to iflix subscribers in 13 territories across Asia – including Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Brunei, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, the Maldives, Cambodia, […]
Discovery has agreed a deal with Channel 4 to acquire a catalogue of Jamie Oliver titles and other lifestyle programming for Food Network, its free-to-air lifestyle and entertainment channel. The deal includes thirteen new titles and the relicense of eight previously acquired titles. Jamie Watkins, Content Sourcing and Acquisitions Manager at Discovery said, “Jamie Oliver […]
Connected services revenue and security enhancement specialist Verimatrix has confirmed that Spanish quadplay operator Aire Networks has extended its investment in its Video Content Authority System (VCAS) framework to maximise security for the TV Everywhere streaming offered by its Perseo TV premium OTT services. VideoMark, Verimatrix’s client-side watermarking solution for live and on-demand video services, […]
Bitmovin, a specialist in online video technology, has revealed that the BBC is using the Bitmovin Encoder to speed content preparation and maximise quality for selected live and UHD content on Catch Up TV and VoD services. The Bitmovin solution enables the broadcaster to make live shows from the BBC’s TV channels available rapidly on […]
Vodafone Spain is lobbying regulator CNMC to change market rules and oblige Movistar to share its premium content at a more reasonable price. The operator has urged it to modify the criteria to calculate the football cost per customer, coinciding with the revision plan of the conditions imposed on Telefónica to guarantee free competition to […]
Coverage of La Liga, Spain’s top flight football league, will be shown, free to air, on ITV4 for the rest of the season. A live match will air every Sunday along with a midweek highlights programme. Niall Sloane, ITV Director of Sport, said: “This is good news for football fans who will be able to […]
Multi-lingual digital entertainment platform ZEE5 has announced a strategic partnership with Apigate, the API platform, to deliver a bouquet of content across languages and genres to audiences globally. ZEE5, which is a part of Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEEL) – a global Media and Entertainment powerhouse – offers 100,000 hours of Indian Movies, TV Shows, […]