Quest, the Discovery-owned free-to-air TV channel, has boosted its sports offering after reaching agreement to screen the forthcoming 2018-19 ABB FIA Formula E Championship. The deal with Formula E will see Quest broadcast up to four races from the forthcoming season live as well as a full highlights package of every single race during the […]
Singapore’s High Court has ordered the city-state’s Internet Service Providers to block access to popular illegal applications that are frequently sold pre-loaded on Android TV boxes. Such TV boxes are also known as illicit streaming devices (ISDs). These apps, which flagrantly infringe copyright by acting as gateways to websites streaming pirated content, are preloaded on […]
Singapore’s Singtel TV is set to bring the next three seasons of the Premier League to Singapore fans. Running from August 2019 to May 2022, the latest rights deal will make Singtel TV the official broadcaster of the Premier League in Singapore for 12 consecutive years. “We are pleased to continue offering fans front row […]
A bid by Facebook for the rights to the English Premier League is “not on the cards” according to the social media giant’s director of media partnerships, EMEA, Patrick Walker. Addressing a meeting of the Broadcasting Press Guild in London, Walker said that Watch, the company’s digital video platform, was built around three main pillars: […]
Italy is seeking new measures to combat piracy, a phenomenon that has assumed enormous dimensions and is hindering the growth of the pay-TV sector. The intention is to implement measures introduced in the UK such as blocking the illegal servers during football matches, as Italy has so far only acted against websites and apps, reports […]
Sky Sports has agreed the renewal of its contract with the EFL to broadcast 138 live league games per season until 2024. The deal is worth a reported £595 million (€669m) – a 35 per cent increase on the previous deal. Despite this increase, a number of clubs are unhappy with the deal. Under the […]
Sky Sports will be the only place to see live Ladbrokes Premiership action from 2020, after agreeing a new five year partnership with the Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL). Sky beat current rights-holder BT Sport to secure the deal. Sky Sports will show up to 48 live Ladbrokes Premiership matches every season, as well as […]
Portugal’s Sport TV and the NBA have announced a multi-year partnership for the broadcast of more than 200 games of the US basketball league through NBA TV. Sports TV subscribers will have access to the content of NBA TV at no additional cost. The channel will feature a 24/7 schedule, offering weekly shows, highlights and […]
AT&T and Fox Networks Group have renewed a multi-year deal to continue distribution of Fox programming across AT&T’s video platforms DirecTV, DirecTV NOW and AT&T U-verse. The renewal includes Fox-owned local broadcast stations in 17 cities and the 22 Fox-owned regional sports networks. It also includes FS1, FS2, FX, FXX, FXM, National Geographic Channel, Nat […]
Fox Sports and Major League Baseball have reached a new multi-year, multiplatform rights agreement expanding the network’s US television, digital and Spanish-language rights and cementing Fox Sports as the home to baseball’s marquee events for the next decade. Fox Sports and Fox Deportes maintain the television rights to MLB’s jewel events, including serving as the […]