Following successful legal action taken by Sky, Trevor Fitzpatrick, the licensee of Gerald Griffin Bar, Cork, in the Republic of Ireland, has been ordered to pay damages of €37,800 for infringing Sky’s copyright by showing Sky Sports programming illegally in his premises. He was also ordered to pay costs. Sky was seeking damages of €11,340 […]
International TV and broadband provider Liberty Global has agreed a multi-year deal with Amazon to make what it describes as the best content and viewing experience available to 4 million Virgin Media TV customers in the UK. Virgin Media will be the first of Liberty Global’s European operations to integrate the Amazon Prime Video app […]
Digital piracy data specialist MUSO has raised £3.5 million (€4.04m) in an extension to its £2.5 million 2017 Series A with Harwell Capital. The investment will be used to expand the company’s sales and marketing and increase its foothold in the digital media, gaming and live broadcast sectors. MUSO’s technology removes unlicensed digital content and […]
Discovery and France Télévisions have announced a partnership to present complementary coverage of the Olympic Games in France, including for Beijing 2022 and Paris 2024, the first summer edition of the Games to be hosted by France for a century. Through creating an Olympic Games offering from France Télévisions and Eurosport, Discovery’s sports brand, viewers […]
UK commercial PSB Channel 4 is to show live coverage of all six races of the new all-female W Series racing championship. W Series will see 18 women from 13 countries compete in mechanically identical single-seater cars. The women have been chosen after an extensive selection process which assessed their abilities on the track. The […]
Netflix continues to grow fast and can appear invulnerable. It has just reported record subscriber growth. But, alongside, it is also making records in cash burning – $460 million versus $287 million in the same quarter a year ago. And this is before new competition arrives in the form of Disney+ and Apple TV+. The […]
Channel 5 has acquired two new drama series from Sony Pictures Television for its VoD streaming service My5. The Oath and Bloom will both air on My5 as first-run exclusives in the UK, strengthening the platforms growing slate of scripted drama. The deals reflect My5’s strategy to complement its catch-up programming from both Channel 5 […]
A survey of consumers conducted by Hub Entertainment Research and Dynata reveals widespread password sharing among viewers who watched the April 14th Game of Thrones (GoT) premiere from an online platform. Highlights from the study include:
Next-generation gamified video entertainment marketplace BitMovio is partnering with Endemol Shine International, the sales and distribution arm of global production and distribution company Endemol Shine Group, to bring over 600 hours of its top content to the marketplace. Endemol Shine Group has created dozens of iconic reality, talent and game show franchises worldwide, many of […]
BBC Studios and Cosmote TV have agreed a deal for over 250 hours of premium factual titles from BBC Studios for the Cosmote TV SVoD service. The agreement is designed to complement the schedule for the BBC Earth linear channel which has been available in the market throughGreek telco OTE’s pay-TV service Cosmote TV since […]