Facebook has asked football’s UEFA media bosses permission to live stream the Champions League and Europa League games into certain markets and territories which do not have TV rights for the matches. In particular, it seems that Facebook had in mind nations such as India and Colombia. However, the social media giant has not placed […]
Recognising the increasing popularity and potential of eSports, Swiss channel MySports is bringing a new TV format to Switzerland. From October 23rd, episodes of the Arena eSports programme will be shown exclusively on the sports channel. The 30-minute show provides news on developments in the eSports world and reports on eSports events. On October23rd at […]
ESL, the world’s largest eSports company, has partnered with Hulu to bring premium esports content to an SVoD service for the first time. Expanding on ESL’s original content offering, the deal includes four new eSports series — Player v. Player, Bootcamp, Defining Moments and ESL Replay – and will mark Hulu’s first foray into eSports. […]
Cricket Australia has secured a new broadcast and digital partner for India and the subcontinent. Sony Pictures Networks India (SPN) has acquired the exclusive media rights for all men’s international matches played in Australia, beginning with the Magellan Ashes Series in November. The term of the deal is six years and will cover multiple Indian […]
Inflation in Spain’s football TV rights are becoming burdensome for TV operators. In the 2016-2017 season, the networks paid a combined €1.387 billion to the Spanish football teams, up €388.7 million than the previous year, according to La Liga. The centralised sale of the football TV rights in the domestic market and the exploitation of […]
Spain’s Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport (Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte) is spearheading an anti-piracy awareness campaign ‘No piratees tu futuro’ (Don’t steal your future). The campaign is supported by La Liga football and with the collaboration of content industry bodies and companies such as ADIF, Atresmedia, la Federación de Cines de España […]
Following the announcement on October 1st of a tentative carriage deal that averted a potential blackout of Disney-owned channels in nearly 2.6 million homes in the greater New York area served by the cable MSO Altice USA’s Optimum cable TV service, Altice USA and The Walt Disney Company have announced a comprehensive distribution agreement to […]
The CEO of Mediaset Spain, Paolo Vasile, has accused telco operators – Telefónica, Vodafone and Orange- of distorting the TV market by inflating the prices for football TV rights. At a conference in Madrid, he expressed concern about the fact that pay-TV is controlled by telco operators. According to him: “This generates distortion in the […]
A new study, Measuring Digital Advertising Revenue to Infringing Sites, from The Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG) – an advertising industry initiative to fight criminal activity in the digital advertising supply chain – has found that anti-piracy steps taken by the digital advertising industry have reduced ad revenue for pirate sites by between 48 and 61 […]
Charles Rivkin, CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), has warned US trade representatives of what he describes as an emerging global threat of streaming piracy which is enabled by piracy devices preloaded with software to illicitly stream movies and television programming, posing a “significant and evolving challenge”. In formal comments submitted to […]