Spanish TV group Mediapro, owner of the football TV rights, is finalising the launch of a Spanish-speaking eSports OTT channel, similar to Amazon’s Twitch, which should go live before the end of 2018. The channel will be dedicated to eSports, video games and live international events and tournaments (League of Legends, Clash Royale, Fortnite, CSGO, […]
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has denied an application from FairPlay Canada – a coalition of Canadian artists, content creators, unions, guilds, producers, performers, broadcasters, distributors, and exhibitors – to implement a proposed website-blocking regime to address copyright piracy because it does not have the jurisdiction under the Telecommunications Act. As such, the […]
ESPN+ and ESPN have reached an exclusive, multi-year rights agreement in the United States for Coppa Italia and the Supercoppa Italiana – the two premier Cup competitions in Italian football. Coppa Italia is Italy’s single-elimination domestic Cup competition, and Supercoppa Italiana is the annual matchup between the winner of Italy’s Serie A versus the Coppa […]
When World Wrestling Entertainment launched its WWE Network in 2014, the SVoD service only featured around 1,500 hours of on-demand content. Today, its library has over 10,000 hours of content, increasing 6x in size since launch, according to a report by Streaming Observer. The WWE Network began by streaming PPV events to subscribers for no […]
CSI Sports’ 24/7 live sports channel, Fight Sports, has agreed a carriage deal with Orange, the Spanish pay TV operator. Fight Sports is also being carried on the Orange platform in France. The programming line-up includes weekly LIVE premium events with world title boxing events (WBC, WBA, IBF and WBO), having recently broadcast the rematch […]
Global sports and entertainment media group, beIN Corporation (beIN), has launched an international investment arbitration against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for damages totalling more than $1 billion (€0.87bn), claiming it has unlawfully been driven out of the Saudi market and subjected to what has been described as the most widespread piracy of sports broadcasting […]
Not long ago, TV viewers used to spend all their ‘TV time’ watching live programmes: it was all on their TV set and they couldn’t use any other screens or choose their viewing method. “In 2018, it is particularly young adults’ live consumption on a TV set that is decreasing, while the consumption of TV […]
Viacom Southern and Western Europe, Middle East and Africa has announced Comedy Central will launch in France on October 4th. The entertainment channel will be distributed on all telecoms affiliate platforms, including Orange, Free, SFR, Numericable, Bouygues and Videofutur, reaching more than 13 million households. Comedy Central in France will be available on TVs, PCs, […]
VOD 365, a provider of branded OTT TV channels via Freeview, Freesat, mobile and smart TV devices has debuted their pre-school on demand channel, Ketchup TV, on YouView. Ketchup TV is a VOD 365 owned service for children aged 2-6 years and offers a wide range of established global pre-school brands on demand including Bob […]
Google is offering a number of gamers the chance to play video game Assassin’s Creed Odyssey free of charge via its Chrome browser. In a blogpost outlining its plans for Project Stream, the Internet giant said it wanted to take streaming to “the next level”. Google’s product manager, Catherine Hsiao, said: “The technology and creativity […]