French court censures ASO over beIN rights dispute
In a legal ruling likely to be be noted across the sports industry, the President of the Nanterre Commercial Court in France has ordered Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) – organiser…
Netflix raises $2bn in debt to fund more content
Netflix is raising another $2 billion (€1.79bn) in debt for the production, development and potential acquisitions of content. The streaming giant routinely raises debt to help grow its catalogue of…
Comcast, Viacom join anti-piracy coalition
The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), the global coalition dedicated to protecting the dynamic legal market for creative content and reducing online piracy, has confirmed the addition of Comcast…
Eurosport expands ATP Tour partnership
Eurosport secured exclusive ATP Tour rights in a series of new multi-year deals covering the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia. The agreements, which commence in Romania and Hungary in…
Australia: NBA TV on Tabcorp
The National Basketball Association (NBA) and Tabcorp have announced a multi-year media partnership that will bring NBA TV – the league’s 24-hour television network – to Tabcorp’s Sky Channel in…
SCN to show MMA Amateur Championships
IMMAF has signed a broadcast deal with Sports Channel Network (SCN) for the post-event highlights programme from the 2019 IMMAF World Championships which take place in Bahrain between November 11th…
Forecast: ‘Sport highlight value to grow faster than live’
The growth in value of in-play clip and short-form highlights rights will outstrip the growth in value of live rights according to five-year projections by Two Circles. Using its proprietary…
HBO Max acquires Studio Ghibli streaming rights
HBO Max will bring Japan’s celebrated, Oscar-winning animation house, Studio Ghibli, to its slate of premium content that will be available at launch in the spring of 2020. HBO Max will…
Singapore: NBA TV on Starhub
StarHub has agreed a deal with the National Basketball Association (NBA) to show up to seven live games per week through NBA TV, the NBA’s 24/7 dedicated channel. Additionally, StarHub…
Netflix acquires Filipino film Dead Kids
Netflix and Globe Studios have confirmed that they will be bringing Filipino film Dead Kids, exclusively to the global streaming service. Dead Kids is directed by award-winning director, Mikhail Red,…
Star Trek: Discovery finds UK linear home on E4
E4 has acquired the UK exclusive broadcast rights for new CBS comedy Man With A Plan, starring Matt LeBlanc. The deal with CBS Studios International also gives E4 the UK…
Netflix to create Bone animated series
Netflix has secured the rights to Jeff Smith’s award-winning and New York Times best-selling international comic book series, Bone, with plans to develop an animated kids series that follows the…
Sports rights 26% of global content spend in 2018
Research from Ampere Analysis finds that over one quarter of all content spend worldwide is devoted to sports rights. In 2018, 26 per cent of global content spend was focused…
AMC Theatres launches VoD service
Movie exhibition company AMC Theatres is extending its business into the home. Members of the company’s AMC Stubs loyalty plan in the United States can rent or buy approximately 2,000…
Másmóvil joins Spain’s football TV war
Spain’s fourth largest operator Másmóvil is entering the country’s football TV war by offering all matches from La Liga and the Champions through Mediaset’s OTT Mitele Plus. Másmóvil’s Agile TV…