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 […]
Spanish TV group Mediapro will market the international TV rights for La Liga over the next five years, starting in 2019. La Liga and Mediapro have renewed their agreement whereby the league will get €4.48 billion in five years for the international rights, up 30 per cent on the previous three years. In addition, in […]
ProSiebenSat.1 and Discovery have revealed plans to build a local streaming platform in Germany by integrating 7TV, maxdome and Eurosport Player in one place. The OTT platform will offer a full entertainment package of live streams, an extensive media library with local content, the best from Hollywood, as well as high-quality sports content. The future […]
Saudi Arabia’s chairman of its General Sports Authority, Turki al-Sheikh, has accused Qatar’s beIN Sports Group, which controls the TV rights to the World Cup over the Middle East region, of unfairness. Al-Sheikh was meeting the head of FIFA, Gianni Infantino, and called on the FIFA boss “not to allow Al-Jazeera network, which sponsors and […]
A survey of the content viewing behaviour of Hong Kong consumers from CASBAA, the trade association for the video industry and ecosystem in Asia Pacific, reveals that close to one in four consumers (24 per cent) use a TV box which can be used to stream pirated television and video content. These TV boxes, also […]
Hong Kong Customs has conducted an anti-piracy operation and detected a suspected case of illegal re-broadcasting of pay-TV World Cup programmes on an Internet broadcasting platform. During the operation, Customs arrested two men aged 21 and 60 respectively. A batch of computer devices with an estimated market value of about HK$20,000 (€2,190) was seized. Customs […]
Indian MSO Manthan in Kolkatta has paid up some of its outstanding fees to broadcaster Sony Pictures Networks, and the cableco’s viewers can now again watch the World Cup. The absence of Sony programming – and the World Cup games – caused civil disturbances and arrests in some areas following the June 15th cessation of […]
Pact – the trade association representing the commercial interests of UK independent television, film, digital, children’s and animation media companies – has published its new-look TV Exports report, which it says reinforces the UK’s position as a world leader in producing high-quality programmes that are popular with viewers around the world. The report – produced […]
UK multiplay telco BT has become the first major UK pay-TV provider to offer Amazon Prime Video access via a set-top box – giving customers the ability to access Prime Video’s TV & movie content at the push of the button. The move – revealed by advanced-television in mid-May 2018 – forms part of BT’s […]