Vodafone Spain has finally refused to pay the asking price for football rights from Telefónica and will rely on TV series and movies to capture subscribers. The General Director of Vodafone Spain, Andres Vicente, has explained that the current model (of football TV rights) “is not the best option” as it means the acquisition of […]
While a part of the content industry seems to have survived the crisis caused by dematerialisation of consumption, it now faces a new threat: GAFA (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon), who are investing more and more in the content industry as well as telecom operators, states an IDATE report. Although they are not the leading […]
The Alex Salmond Show – a political and current affairs series on the RT channel, hosted by the former First Minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond and produced by his own production company, Slàinte Media – has been found guilty of breaching a Broadcast Code provision that says factual programmes or items or portrayals of factual […]
Australia’s film, television and music industries have united to call on the Government to evolve Australian content rules to make them fit for purpose in the digital environment. In a joint submission to a Senate inquiry into Australian content on broadcast, radio and streaming services, APRA AMCOS and Screen Producers Australia lent their weight to […]
Nearly eight million Australians aged 14+ own a video game console in the household, almost two-fifths of the population (39.4 per cent). In this eighth generation of video game consoles, Sony’s PlayStation 4 has the highest number of consoles in Australian households, independent Australian research company Roy Morgan reveals. This is significantly larger than Microsoft’s […]
The Government’s White Paper on Brexit offers little clarity for the UK’s £1 billion (€1.13bn) international broadcasting sector, according to the Commercial Broadcasters Association (COBA), the trade body for commercial broadcasters in the UK. According to COBA, international TV channels based in the UK are a £1 billion a year business, investing in UK jobs, […]
Global sports provider Eleven Sports has announced a strategic partnership with IMG in the UK and Ireland for the launch of two new sports channels that will include exclusive rights to Serie A football as well as every match from La Liga. Eleven Sports 1 and Eleven Sports 2 will launch via an online streaming […]
In 2017, the number of Italians who pirated audiovisual content at least once amounted to 37 per cent, down by 2 per cent compared to 2016, and the phenomenon decreased especially among the under 15s (-7 per cent). These are the positive result that have emerged from the survey by the Federation for the Protection […]
Netflix has received 112 Emmy nominations, more than any other nominees. The streaming giant bested HBO’s 108 nods and ending its 17-year streak of earning the most Television Academy nominations. Among the big successes were royal drama The Crown, which received 13 nominations, and nostaslgic sci-fi hit Stranger Things, which bagged 12. Titles including Queer […]
Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Media has welcomed the announcement by FIFA that it has engaged local lawyers to take legal action in Saudi Arabia to combat the pirate entity named beoutQ, which continues its illegal piracy of World Cup broadcasts. The Ministry, seemingly linking the pirated signals from beoutQ to the wholly legitimate broadcasts from […]