Vodafone Spain is lobbying regulator CNMC to change market rules and oblige Movistar to share its premium content at a more reasonable price. The operator has urged it to modify the criteria to calculate the football cost per customer, coinciding with the revision plan of the conditions imposed on Telefónica to guarantee free competition to […]
Coverage of La Liga, Spain’s top flight football league, will be shown, free to air, on ITV4 for the rest of the season. A live match will air every Sunday along with a midweek highlights programme. Niall Sloane, ITV Director of Sport, said: “This is good news for football fans who will be able to […]
Multi-lingual digital entertainment platform ZEE5 has announced a strategic partnership with Apigate, the API platform, to deliver a bouquet of content across languages and genres to audiences globally. ZEE5, which is a part of Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEEL) – a global Media and Entertainment powerhouse – offers 100,000 hours of Indian Movies, TV Shows, […]
The BBC has confirmed it will broadcast every England Women’s game ahead of the 2019 Women’s FIFA World Cup. All seven warm-up fixture ahead of the tournament in France will be on the BBC, starting with the Lionesses’ fixture against Brazil on February 27th as part of the She Believes Cup. The FIFA Women’s World […]
Lionsgate’s animated adventure Missing Link is the latest movie to receive an exclusive trailer as part of pro-copyright education body the Industry Trust’s Moments Worth Paying For campaign, to combat film piracy. The trailer features brand new, never-seen-before footage, showcasing the hilarious and heart-warming moments in the film and reminding families that sharing unforgettable moments […]
Minerva Networks, a provider of next-generation service management platforms for connected entertainment has integrated with the Verimatrix Viewthority connected content distribution platform and its YourTV Now cloud hosted service. Building on its recent deployment of the Verimatrix MultiRights OTT solution for multi-DRM support, YourTV Now can integrate with Viewthority to create a solution that combines […]
Charter Communications is to launch Spectrum TV Essentials, an Internet-delivered over-the-top (OTT) video service, to be made available exclusively in Charter’s footprint to Spectrum Internet customers who don’t already subscribe to Spectrum video services. Launching by the end of March, Spectrum TV Essentials will include more than 60 live popular lifestyle, entertainment and news channels, […]
Viacom and fuboTV have agreed a carriage deal that will extend Viacom’s global portfolio of premier entertainment brands to fuboTV’s live TV streaming service. Viacom’s nine core media networks – BET, CMT, COMEDY CENTRAL, MTV, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., Paramount Network, TV Land and VH1 – will soon be included in fuboTV’s base package, fubo. An […]
Cloud-based video experience solutions provider Linius Technologies has successfully tested what it claims is the world’s first video blockchain, opening new distribution, protection and monetisation possibilities to the global video industry. By applying its video virtualisation technology, Linius successfully used smart contracts to control and transact video as a digital asset within blockchain – for […]
Sport TV, a Portuguese pay-TV broadcaster, has secured the exclsuive television rights in Portugal for the Euro 2020 football tournament. Despite traditionally being a pay-TV broadcaster, the company will broadcast the tournament on a FTA basis. After ” Sport TV today announces that we have acquired the full rights to Euro 2020,” CEO, Nuno Ferreira […]