Orange’s OCS channel has renewed its exclusive first-window pay-TV deal with HBO according to local reports. A joint press conference with Time Warner’s CEO Richard Pleper and the French operator’s CEO Stéphane Richard has been announced for next week. The current deal ends at the end of 2018 and keeping key series such as Game […]
Verizon and CBS have announced a new multiyear content carriage agreement that includes continued retransmission consent of CBS-owned television stations, including CBS-owned The CW affiliates, in multiple markets across the country as well as distribution of the popular entertainment and sports channels Showtime, Smithsonian Channel and CBS Sports Network on Verizon Fios TV. In the […]
The BBC has announced an extension of its broadcast deal with the Masters Tournament, extending a relationship that now celebrates 50 years since the BBC’s first broadcast of the tournament in 1967. The new multi-year deal includes extensive TV highlights of the opening two rounds of the Tournament as well as live TV coverage of […]
Insight TV, a producer of unscripted UHD content covering adventure travel and extreme sports genres, has announced a distribution deal with Swisscom, the Swiss telecoms operator. Swisscom has launched Insight TV’s linear UHD channel on its UHD IPTV service Swisscom TV 2.0. The Inisght TV channel provides Swisscom subscribers with hundreds of hours of unique […]
The digital revolution in the entertainment business has reached a new tipping point with Britons now spending nearly 80 per cent of their expenditure on entertainment online, according to the Entertainment Retailers Association. And for the first time, entertainment has gone ‘pay monthly’ with
According to Michael Boreham, Senior Consultant at Futuresource Consulting, SVoD uptake in China is being driven by the younger consumer group, with the market having huge potential for growth driven by the desire for premium content and as the generational shift in consumer behaviour adopts SVoD as the norm. In Boreham’s study – The Cultural […]
US professional football league Major League Soccer and Univision Deportes, the multimedia sports division of Univision Communications Inc. (UCI), the leading media company serving Hispanic America, are collaborating with Facebook to live stream a full slate of regular season matches on the social network. As part of this, MLS will also drive further social engagement […]
Premium television streaming service Hulu is continuing to build up the roster of channels it will offer on its forthcoming live TV streaming service by securing an affiliate agreement with A+E Networks that will bring six original brands from the A+E Networks Family to the platform. The deal adds live and on-demand streaming access to […]
BBC Worldwide – the commercial arm of the Corporation has launched BBC Player in Malaysia, the second country to receive the service following its successful launch in Singapore in 2016. The multi-genre service is available exclusively to subscribers of Telekom Malaysia Berhad’s (TM) IPTV service, HyppTV, through an authenticated SVoD service. Hypp TV viewers will […]
US auto racing series NASCAR and digital satellite service SiriusXM have agreed a six-year renewal to extend their broadcasting and marketing agreement through 2022. SiriusXM will continue to deliver 24/7 racing content to millions of listeners across North America, including live broadcasts of every race, plus daily NASCAR talk and interviews with voices across the […]