Singtel, wholly-owned subsidiary Optus and regional associates Airtel, AIS, Globe and Telkomsel, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to cooperate and jointly leverage their strengths to grow the gaming and eSports ecosystem in Southeast Asia, Australia and India. The MOU brings together the six members of the Singtel Group to partner across the gaming […]
At The Races and Sky Sports Racing will be the exclusive, new non-terrestrial broadcast home of Hong Kong racing in the UK and Ireland until July 2022, At The Races and The Hong Kong Jockey Club have announced. Hong Kong’s 2018/19 season will feature a record £120 million in prize money and will be broadcast […]
German pay-TV broadcaster Sky Deutschland has successfully secured the Premier League broadcast rights for the three seasons from 2019/20 to 2021/22. Under the agreement, Sky Deutschland will have exclusive live broadcasting rights in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein. “Sky has an excellent track record of delivering high-quality football content to fans in Germany,” Premier […]
Spanish TV group Atresmedia and Brazilian TV network Globo have entered into a strategic content alliance covering LatAm and the US. As part of the deal Globo will provide over 500 hours of content a year to Atresmedia’s TV series channel Atreseries, strengthening its position to capture the Spanish speaking pay-TV audiences in LatAm and […]
The Premier League and Electronic Arts (EA) are launching the ePremier League (ePL), offering UK-based players the chance to represent their favourite Premier League club for the first time in competitive gaming. The ePL will start in January 2019 with the final played in London in March, and broadcast live on Sky Sports and the […]
New-age holistic content protection solutions that protect not only content but also user data and customer reputation are expected to drive the next wave of growth in the global content protection market, according to a report, Global Content Protection Market, Forecast to 2024, from advisory firm Frost & Sullivan. These solutions need to address the […]
Cheddar, post cable networks company, and Synacor have announced that US subscribers of Hulu with Live TV and YouTube TV will have full access to Cheddar’s live and on demand programming at no additional charge via the Cheddar website, as well as mobile and TV apps. “All Hulu with Live TV and YouTube TV subscribers […]
Ahead of Mipcom, BBC Studios has announced the sale of the Mastermind format to Khabar Agency JSC who will produce 21 episodes to air on the Khabar channel later this year. Kazakhstanis, as in the UK version, will compete to win the honour of being crowned Kazakhstan’s Mastermind as they take to the black chair […]
Some 55 per cent of US households subscribe to at least one streaming service, according to findings from Deloitte, and ESPN+ is the latest example of the rising popularity of OTT, having garnered over 1 million subscribers within the first five months. But many of these apps experience an unusually high churn rate, according to […]
The emergence of live-content offerings has the potential to serve as a major differentiator for survival in the crowded streaming market, yet more than one in four (27 per cent) of US adults who use a streaming service don’t think ‘live’ is worth paying for yet due to consistently poor streaming quality, according to findings […]