Consultancy firm EY has published the second edition of its study on online content piracy in France (Piratage en France), which aims to assess the shortfall related to the illegal consumption of audiovisual content in France. The study quantifies the impacts of piracy on the state budget, direct jobs, the financing of creativity and lastly […]
Golden Boy Promotions is launching a partnership with Facebook to bring live boxing and original programming to a global community of fans on the social media platform. The first of five live fight nights on Facebook will debut on August 11th and will feature Jesus Rojas defending his WBA World Featherweight Title against Joseph “JoJo “Diaz […]
After acquiring a package of 20 football matches from the England Premier League, industry observers have predicted that Amazon will turn its attention to the Spanish market and seek to acquire minority lots of La Liga football TV rights over the next three seasons. La Liga has four lots of football TV rights for sale […]
UK multiplay operator Virgin Media will be giving its customers the opportunity to watch the Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s finals from the Championships at Wimbledon in 4K Ultra High Definition through Eurosport. Virgin TV customers with a V6 TV box will be able to watch both finals in Ultra High Definition for the very first time. […]
Digital platform security specialist Irdeto has detected 5,088 unique illegal streams redistributing games over the Internet during the group stage of the 2018 World Cup. The bookies’ favourites, Brazil won the unwanted moniker of most-pirated team, with more than 582 illegal streams detected for its three group stage matches. Brazil was followed by Morocco (561 […]
DISH, operator of DishLATINO and Sling TV, has confirmed that negotiations with Univision Communications have reached an apparent impasse following what it describes as “untenable” demands by the programmer and by Univision’s abrupt departure from the negotiating table. As a result, certain services went ‘dark’ on June 30th Suggesting that Univision is asking more for […]
Hopster, the preschool learning and entertainment app, has partnered with TalkTalk, the UK telco, to bring the kids SVoD service to TalkTalk TV. TalkTalk is the first UK TV provider to make Hopster content directly available as part of its Kids TV subscription. In addition to ten of the UK’s biggest kids’ channels, TalkTalk TV […]
Grupo de Antipirateria of the Policia Nacional in Spain, led by Inspector Marlene Álvarez Vicente, has become the inaugural winner of an award from the Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Alliance (AAPA) for a successful initiative to tackle audiovisual piracy. The award, presented at this year’s Europol Intellectual Property Crime conference in Budapest, recognised the Grupo de Antipirateria’s […]
Nova, a provider of bundled services of home entertainment and communication in Greece, has secured the broadcasting rights of the French Football League and Ligue 1 Conforama. Nova has also secured the broadcasting rights of the Trophée des Champions (French Supercup), and the Coupe de la Ligue (French League Cup). As of season 2018-19 Nova […]
Spanish multiplay telco Telefónica has been provisionally declared winner of the tender to acquire the rights to broadcast all the paid matches in the country’s top-flight football league La Liga in the residential market for the 2019-2022 cycle (packages 4 and 5). The telco will pay €980 million per season, which equates to a slight […]