Global sports provider, Eleven Sports, has bolstered its football portfolio in Belgium and Luxembourg with the acquisition of exclusive live rights to Major League Soccer (MLS). The agreement begins this weekend with Eleven Sports showing at least one game per match week for the next four seasons. The deal includes exclusive rights to all MLS […]
Netflix has closed a first look deal with Dark Horse Entertainment. Under the new deal, Dark Horse Entertainment will give Netflix a first look at its IP for both film and TV, and has already started exploring future projects. Dark Horse Entertainment’s Mike Richardson, Keith Goldberg and Paul Schwake signed on to produce. Netflix and […]
Strategic insight consultancy Broadcast Intelligence has compiled a substantive report on Netflix’s working practices, based on in-depth interviews with producers, distributors and co-producers. The firm’s report, Working with Netflix, comprises
PCCW Media has secured the exclusive rights in Hong Kong for the UEFA EURO 2020 tournament, and will broadcast the tournament exclusively across Now TV, Now E and ViuTV. UEFA EURO 2020 will be held in 12 cities across 12 European countries, and 24 national teams will compete for the championship from June 12th to […]
The XFL has announced multi-year agreements with ESPN and Fox Sports to televise XFL games in the US when the sport relaunches for a 2020 season. XFL games will air weekly on broadcast TV (ABC and Fox) complemented by games on cable (ESPN, ESPN2, FS1 and FS2). The XFL TV schedule allows for consistent appointment […]
The meeting between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox at London Stadium will be shown live on the BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport website. The games on June 29th and 30th are part of a two-year deal signed by Major League Baseball (MLB) and BBC Sport to stream the London Series in the […]
Channel 4 will broadcast live coverage of Grand Slam winners Wales when they take on England and Ireland this August. The three nations will face each other at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium as part of their preparation for the Rugby World Cup which begins on September 20th. The reigning Six Nations Champions play England on August […]
YouTube has confirmed a deal with Major League Baseball (MLB) for the exclusive rights to live stream 13 games this season. The games will be available globally on YouTube, and exclusively in the US, Canada and Puerto Rico. The matches will stream live on MLB’s official YouTube channel and via a new channel on YouTube […]
Netflix has entered into a multi-year first look deal with director, producer, and actress, Regina King and her production company Royal Ties. Named one of Time Magazine’s most influential people of 2019, King recently won an Academy Award for her role as Sharon Rivers in feature film If Beale Street Could Talk as well as […]
Neil Sharpe, Product Marketing Director at content and revenue protection specialist Friend MTS, has described streaming piracy as a “sophisticated, industrial scale problem”, but suggested that with the right techniques, tackling it is not an insurmountable task. Speaking at SportsPro Live in London, Sharpe told delegates that research from market analyst firm Ovum estimated that […]