F1’s new owners, Liberty Media, believe the UK TV rights deal they have inherited from the previous management, led by Bernie Ecclestone, is damaging to the sport – with Sky’s coverage entirely immersed behind a paywall from 2019 to 2024. Sean Bratches, the MD of commercial operations for the Formula One Group, sees FTA television as […]
Teleclub and Discovery Networks Deutschland have announced an extension of their long-term partnership by adding exclusive broadcasting rights for the Bundesliga. All Bundesliga games for the 2017/18 season included in the specific rights package Eurosport holds for Germany, Austria and Switzerland will be shown as part of the Teleclub platform offer only. Eurosport will broadcast […]
Hot on the heels of its German counterpart’s success, Sky Italia has secured exclusive live rights to all UEFA Champions League and Europa League matches from the 2018/19 season through to 2020/21, significantly strengthening Sky’s position as the leading sports content provider in Italy. The rights had previously been held by Mediaset. Sky has acquired […]
Thirty leading content creators and on-demand entertainment companies from around the world have launched the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), a global coalition dedicated to protecting the dynamic legal market for creative content and reducing online piracy. The worldwide members of ACE are Amazon, AMC Networks, BBC Worldwide, Bell Canada and Bell Media, Canal+ […]
Sky has built on its content offering with a new agreement to broadcast exclusively, with the Perform Group as sub-licensee, the UEFA Champions League in Germany and Austria. Sky Deutschland will broadcast the 2018/19 season through to 2020/21 across satellite, cable, IPTV, web and mobile platforms. “We are extremely pleased with this result which means […]
Facebook is reportedly nearing a deal for its first scripted content. The social media giant is set to bring back Loosely Exactly Nicole – a show that was cancelled by MTV – for a new season. The family comedy show, starring actress Nicole Byer, was cancelled by MTV back in February after only one season. […]
Serie A, Italy’s top-flight football league, is launching a new tender for the TV rights to matches for the 2018-2021 seasons after private broadcaster Mediaset made no bid in the original tender on June 10th. “We don’t believe the offers received represent the real value of Italian soccer,” the Serie A president Carlo Tavecchio told […]
Telecoms, content and advertising group Altice has agreed a multi-year partnership with Netflix which will lead to Netflix’s content being made available to Altice customers into all eligible devices in France, Portugal, Israel and Dominican Republic. According to Altice, the launch of the Netflix service on its platforms will seamlessly bring critically-acclaimed original Netflix series, […]
American consumers are worried that digital platforms are being overrun by ‘bad actors’ and want these digital leaders to take a more hands-on approach to combatting them, according to research from advocacy group the Digital Citizens Alliance. In a survey of more than 1,200 people, DCA researchers found
The Council of the European Union has adopted new rules to allow consumers who paid for online content services in their home country to access them when visiting another country within the EU. The new regulation will improve competitiveness by encouraging innovation in online services and attracting more consumers. It is one of the objectives […]