There are two things we know without doubt about social media platforms: they are big and their main purpose in life is to be engines of profit. Long gone is any naive belief in their patronising mission statements reminiscent of 1970s cola adverts. Just like big food, big oil, big pharma or big anything else, […]
The Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA), an international not-for-profit membership organisation dedicated to innovation and enhancing society’s access to information and communications, has called on the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to fight against what it suggests are ‘protectionist’ European IP policies. With Europe poised to enact additional copyright policies that the CCIA says […]
WWE Studios, the US film studio owned by the professional wrestling corporation WWE, has reportedly agreed a deal wth Netflix to release its content on the streaming platform. The upcoming projects will be geared towards family audiences and the first movie, The Main Event, will commence production this summer. As well as Hollywood talent, the […]
Optus Sport, the exclusive home of the Champions League and Europa League in Australia, is trialling a new arrangement that will give football fans the chance to watch selected matches via Twitter and YouTube. The arrangement will see Optus Sport transmit a total of 10 matches between February and April 2019 on the Optus Sport […]
AMC Networks International – Central and Northern Europe (AMCNI CNE) and Deutsche Telekom’s subsidiaries in the Czech Republic and Slovakia have signed a multi-year renewal of their distribution agreement. The deal builds on the companies’ long-term partnership by providing carriage of AMCNI CNE’s full portfolio of networks to Slovak Telekom’s Magio and Digi Slovakia and […]
Aleksander Čeferin, President of European football’s governing body UEFA, has confirmed that it is to launch a streaming service. In an acceptance speech following his unanimous re-election at the 43rd Ordinary UEFA Congress, Čeferin informed delegates that UEFA would launch its own OTT platform, provisionally named UEFA TV, in the next six months. It is […]
Sky Sports will be the only place in the UK and Ireland to watch the US, London and Dublin shows of the Bellator MMA 2019 tour, starting later this month. This one year deal with Bellator ensures that all US fights on the tour, as well those in London and Dublin, will air exclusively on […]
Netflix has acquired worldwide distribution rights to award-winning documentary Knock Down the House, which chronicles the campaigns of four female progressive candidates including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, against powerful incumbents in the 2018 midterm elections. The Sundance Institute this wek announced Knock Down the House as the winner of the Festival Favorite Award, selected by audience votes […]
FloSports, a specialist live digital sports and original content, and Rugby Europe, the governing body responsible for the management of international competitions for the 48-member unions across Europe, have announced a partnership to provide live and on-demand coverage of the 2019 Rugby Europe Championship in North America, Latin America, Middle East and North Africa exclusively […]
UKTV announced that Darren Childs has decided to step down from his role as CEO. Childs’ name has been mentioned in connection with the role of chief executive at the English Premier League, following the withdrawal of Discovery Communications executive Susanna Dinnage, who had been appointed to replace Richard Scudamore. He leaves as it seems […]