UKTV has unveiled its first deal invested through UKTV Ventures, its multi-million pound innovation fund, with an airtime-for-equity investment in Hopster. The broadcaster also announced the appointment of Sheena Amin to spearhead the fund. UKTV announced the launch of the innovation fund last year to invest in burgeoning high-growth companies wishing to access the television […]
The UK’s Minister for Intellectual Property, Sam Gyimah, has highlighted the continued Government clampdown on users and providers of illicit streaming boxes who cause damage to the nation’s £92 billion (€103.45bn) creative industries. It comes as the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) publishes its response to a Call for Views on illicit streaming. This finds that […]
Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT) has launched Viaplay TV for its customers in Finland. Viaplay TV enables subscribers to watch 15+ TV channels through Viaplay. NENT Group already offers its own free TV channels on Viaplay in Norway and Sweden. TV channels now available on Viaplay in Finland include YLE TV1, YLE TV2, YLE Teema & […]
Independent popular factual producer Barcroft Media has announced a new original interactive series revealing dream homes from around the world called ‘Most Incredible Homes’. The series will premiere on Facebook Watch on November 3rd with episodes dropped weekly. Each episode visits three incredible real-life homes to meet their owners. And each week, the ‘Most Incredible Homes’ […]
The search for ‘the next big thing’ in UK Children’s Television is gearing up as part of a £60 million (€67.5m) initiative being introduced by Government to support the nation’s vibrant broadcast sector. Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright has announced that the Contestable Fund which aims to halt the decline of UK produced children’s content and […]
OTT sports service DAZN has agreed a six-season deal to show FA Cup matches in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, from the this season to 2023-24. The FA Cup will join DAZN’s other English football content which include matches from the League Cup and the Championship. DAZN’s FA Cup coverage will begin from the third round […]
Limelight Networks and Ericsson have signed an agreement to collaborate on content delivery and edge cloud services. As more traffic shifts to the public internet from private networks, the need for high performance networks and distributed infrastructure is required to maintain a high-quality user experience. A key solution to this is edge cloud computing. Providing […]
Eleven Sports, the OTT sports broadcaster, has confirmed it will abandon its controversial decision to stream La Liga football matches on Saturday afternoons during the traditional UK blackout period for live football. However, the company signalled it is ready to challenge the decades old ruling, and pointed to the fact that the blackout would seem […]
Creative Content Australia (CCA), an industry organisation committed to raising awareness about the value of copyright and the impact of content theft on the screen industries, has welcomed the introduction of copyright legislation amendments that protect the work of local and global screen content creators. The Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) Bill 2018, introduced in the […]
MTV Studios has unveiled a partnership with Facebook Watch to reimagine the ground-breaking series MTV’s The Real World for three all new seasons debuting Spring 2019. Drawing on Facebook’s global platform, the new seasons will be native productions in Mexico, Thailand and the United States, respectively, to explore friendship, and the cultural and social environment in each. Available exclusively on […]