A political agreement on the main elements of revised rules to apply to audiovisual media across Europe has been reached between the European Parliament, the Council and the European Commission that will likely see SVoD platforms such as Amazon and Netflix face a 30 per cent ‘made in Europe’ quota. The negotiations will officially conclude […]
Spanish pay-TV operators are increasingly putting pressure on Mediapro, holder of the Champions League and Europa League TV rights, to reduce the asking price for the football rights. Ángel Vilá, CEO of Telefónica, warned there exists “a real possibility” that his company will not acquire the Champions League rights for the next three seasons. He […]
GoMedia, the onboard infotainment systems developer for transport operators, has formed a partnership with short film curator Discover.film, extending its content offering on public transport. Discover.film sources the best content from a creative network of more than 400,000 filmmakers around the world, giving them a platform through VoD and multi-channel distribution, to reach a global […]
A man who infringed Sky’s broadcast copyright by streaming Sky Sports content to the public has been forced to pay £45,000 (€51,500) in fines and damages. Between March 3rd 2017 and April 1st 2017, Wasaq Rasheed shared streams from (the then) Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2. These streams were found on IPTVdonations.com, an illegally-run […]
Channel and content piracy is being further attacked by the MENA Broadcast Satellite Anti-Piracy Coalition which has confirmed successful actions against 18 illegal Arabic-language channels and four international channels, allegedly guilty of showing unlicensed or deliberately pirated content. The Coalition also announced a batch of new members, including beIN; Es’hailSat; Front Row; Muso; My HD […]
The Association of Commercial Television in Europe (ACT) has welcomed the European Commission’s Communication on tackling online disinformation. In a statement ACT said: “The Communication is a welcome first step towards addressing the major challenges disinformation raises and its root causes. Notably by addressing regulatory asymmetries between the fully regulated and editorially responsible broadcast environment […]
Sky has announced that, effective immediately, the music-streaming Spotify app will be available via Sky Q. Anyone using the latest Sky STB will now be able to gain access to millions of songs straight from their Q homepage. Spotify is available for free, or via a monthly £9.99 subscription which removes all advertising. Jorge Espinel, […]
DAZN has secured the rights to show the rematch between British boxers Tony Bellew and David Haye in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The fight, which takes place on May 5th from The O2 in London, and will be exclusively broadcast in Germany and Austria, and non-exclusively in Switzerland. DAZN subscribers will be able to follow the complete fight […]
TravelXP, the travel and lifestyle channel, says its 4K version will launch over India once it has received a transmission licence. TravelXP, backed by Prashant Chotanhi’s Celebrities Management, has been filming in the higher-standard HDR version of Ultra HD for some years, and is targeting operators such as TataSky and Videocon d2h which have already […]
On the one hand digital cinema is now a global delivery phenomenon. Some 99 per cent of all screens in the US are digital, and a significant percentage of ‘International’ screens are digitally delivering movies. The only exception is the Asia-Pacific region where there are still some 2480 analogue screens, according to data from the […]