21st Century Fox says it is cooperating with the European Commission after officials raided its Fox Network offices in London. Competition authorities are said to have seized documents relating to sport media rights. Other companies involved in sports rights have also received what the EC called “unannounced inspections”. “The commission has concerns that the companies […]
Video player technology and content discovery platform Dailymotion has agreed a syndication partnership with MBC, one of South Korea’s most prominent networks and content publishers. As part of the agreement, MBC will distribute video content from eight portfolio networks—MBC Kpop, MBC Drama, MBC Entertainment, MBC News, MBC Documentary, Mbig News, TV-People, and MBC Classic—via Dailymotion’s […]
Seeking to expand and develop its presence in Europe, Playboy TV has enlisted media company Marc Dorcel to manage, from May 1st 2018, its television business including linear channel programming, exclusive distribution and management of the VoD content offering. The agreement will cover Europe (except UK, Spain and Portugal), Africa and Middle East. “As Playboy […]
Content and revenue protection specialist Friend MTS has launched a 4K/UHD variant of its ASiD subscriber level watermarking service to protect premium sports and entertainment content from streaming piracy sourced from set-top boxes and OTT players. The ASiD global monitoring and watermarking service is highly-automated to allow scaling for the largest live sports events, which […]
Star India has won India International and Domestic media rights for the period from April 15th, 2018 until March 31st, 2023 following an online auction process that lasted three days. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI had invited bids for Global Television Rights plus Rest of the World Digital Rights Package Indian […]
The EBU, in close collaboration with network equipment vendors ATEME and NEVION, has updated its royalty-free and interoperable stream protection standard (BISS) with a conditional access extension, BISS-CA, which enables real-time entitlement management for content streams over any network. The BISS-CA mode (EBU Tech3292s1) is based on state-of-the-art symmetric AES and asymmetric RSA cryptography and […]
Content and revenue protection specialist Friend MTS has launched an ASiD Watermarking Partner Programme to accelerate the adoption of its widely-used video watermarking service for premium sports and entertainment providers. The first technology partners to join the programme are OTT video player solution providers VisualOn, NexPlayer and Bitmovin. “With the growing menace of streaming piracy, […]
Two suppliers of Kodi-type illegal devices have each been jailed for four and half years in Newcastle Crown Court in the northwest of England after being found guilty of conspiracy to defraud. John Dodds and Jason Richards sold hundreds of devices that enabled their customers to view Premier League football via unauthorised access to Sky […]
Technology development, multiplatform services and revenue specialist Synacor has unveiled Forever Login, a feature designed to curb pay-TV’s password sharing challenges that research firm Parks Associates estimates will be a $10 billion (€8.14bn) problem. Available on the company’s Cloud ID authentication platform, the new feature lets operators balance easy subscriber access to TV Everywhere content […]
Swisscom TV is becoming the home of football for all fans in Switzerland. In addition to the Raiffeisen Super League, the Brack.ch Challenge League and many of the top European leagues, UEFA Champions League matches will now also be shown via Teleclub from this summer onwards. This offering is rounded off with UEFA Europa League […]