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NZ: My Box ‘not legal’

The Auckland High Court has ruled that Internet-streaming service My Box cannot be represented as legal, and that using My Box (and other units like it) to show SKY movies, TV and sports programmes breaches copyright. Sophie Moloney, SKY’s General Counsel, welcomed the ruling. “This decision, along with the recent ruling against Fibre TV boxes in […]

October 31, 2018By Colin Mann

Ooyala, Google Cloud collaborate

Ooyala, a specialist in content supply chain solutions for OTT, content production, and digital distribution, has announced a collaboration with Google Cloud to leverage robust Google Cloud technologies for the cutting-edge Ooyala Flex Media Platform, which empowers media owners to automate their video workflows, expand their audiences and get content to market faster, and with […]

October 31, 2018

Snapchat boosts UK content

Snapchat, the social media sharing app, is adding 26 new UK shows from the likes of Channel 4, Sky News, Vice and Manchester City FC in an attempt to broaden its offering and attract more UK users. A number of US shows produced by premium partners on the platform have already attracted five million UK […]

October 30, 2018

Eurosport scores British Darts rights

Eurosport has agreed a multi-market deal to exclusively screen the Major tournaments in the British Darts Organisation (BDO) calendar for the next three years. Starting from January 2019, darts viewers in the UK, Netherlands and Australia will be able to watch the three highest-profile tournaments in the BDO calendar – the World Professional Darts Championships […]

October 30, 2018By Nik Roseveare

Viewing figures put Taskmaster in 7th Heaven

The current series of Taskmaster, Avalon’s award-winning and critically-acclaimed series on UKTV’s Dave, has eclipsed all previous series. The average Total Consumption per episode of series seven so far has reached 1.44 million, up 7 per cent on the last series, and this figure is set to rise once complete 28 day data has been […]

October 30, 2018By Colin Mann

BBC Studios signs deal with Taiwan’s myVIDEO

BBC Studios has announced a content deal with myVideo that will give over 4.5 million Taiwanese viewers access to more than 200 hours of premium BBC dramas including the latest series of Luther and Doctor Who. myVideo is an OTT service owned by Taiwan Mobile, a leading telecommunications company in Taiwan offering quadplay services – […]

October 30, 2018

Synamedia opens for business

Synamedia, the renamed NDS division that was acquired by Cisco, is back in independent hands. Financed by global investment firm Permira, the buyout from Cisco’s Service Provider Video Software Solutions, has completed. Financial terms of the deal were not released. Synamedia’s portfolio of over 200 pay-TV and media customers includes AT&T, Astro, beIN, Bharti Airtel, […]

October 29, 2018By Chris Forrester

Spain: 3 arrests for pay-TV piracy

The Spanish Guardia Civil has arrested three people in Alicante, east of Spain, for illegally distributing pay-TV channels to around 500 foreigners, mostly British citizens, in the village of Formentera del Segura. The criminals tentatively earned around €450,000 from the operation, receiving between €500 and €3,000 a week from customers – at a loss of […]

October 29, 2018From David Del Valle in Madrid

Report: $25bn games deals could signal top of the market

This year’s record $25 billion games deals over just 9 months could mean we’ve hit the top of the market, as detailed in Digi-Capital’s new Games Report Q4 2018. Last time this happened, games investment and M&A plunged into a games deals ice age at the lowest level in a decade. The games deals cycle has […]

October 29, 2018

CNBC opens Dubai Studios

Business news channel CNBC has opened new studios at Dubai’s International Financial Centre. The broadcaster already has a facility at Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates and from where regular transmissions have been made. As of today, television output from CNBC’s Dubai studio will feed into Capital Connection and across CNBC’s headquarters […]

October 29, 2018By Chris Forrester