The English Premier League has sold its television rights in China for about £564 million (€660m), marking its biggest-ever overseas sale. Online video streaming service PPTV, a media division of China’s Suning retail group which also owns Italian football club Inter Milan has agreed a three-year deal from the 2019-20 season. The deal is said […]
In a move that it says creates a TV Anywhere home for performance motoring and motorsport, Motorsport Network has acquired Motors TV, consolidating the world’s largest automotive and motorsport digital technology business with a global broadcast operation. The acquisition of the broadcaster that reaches more than 30 million homes with 130 rights agreements and 700 […]
The Wimbledon tennis tournament will remain on the BBC for at least another eight years. The All England Club and the BBC have confirmed a four-year extension to their partnership, taking the deal up to 2024. The alliance, which in 2017 celebrates 80 years of television and 90 years of radio, is the longest in […]
The major release by Amazon Prime of the Clarkson-Hammond-May The Grand Tour motoring show, reportedly a $100 million investment, and hot on the heels of Netflix’s The Crown, again with a massive per-episode budget, is a sign of how the video industry is changing. The Grand Tour will be available in more than 200 markets […]
WWE and Sky Deutschland have announced a new multi-year agreement to distribute WWE’s pay-per-view events starting this Monday with Survivor Series and televise WWE’s flagship programmes Raw and SmackDown live on Sky Sports beginning April 2017. “We are very happy about WWE coming back to Sky Deutschland,” said Dr. Malte Probst, Senior Vice President Programming […]
According to Mark Lichtenhein, Chairman, Sports Rights Owners Coalition, piracy has no natural frontiers, with increased piracy the potential outcome of EC attempts to introduce cross-country licensing under Digital Single Market proposals. Speaking at the European Content Protection Summit in London, Lichtenhein noted that the June referendum vote for the UK to leave the EU, […]
Ericsson has announced an exclusive, multi-year feature film deal with leading international content distributor, 20th Century Fox Television Distribution, for its SVoD service, Nuvu. The output deal includes 20th Century Fox-produced titles along with an extensive selection of global film franchises for territories across sub-Saharan Africa in multiple language. Titles include The Maze Runner, The […]
Following deals with with UK commercial broadcasters ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5, freemium OTT service TVPlayer is adding another 11 channels. TV fans can now choose from over 75 free-to-access channels – all available to stream live or catch up directly to their mobile, tablet or computer. TVPlayer streams live TV across multiple devices from […]
MTG and Dorna Sports have renewed their partnership that will ensure fans in Scandinavia and the Baltics can continue to enjoy MotoGP action. MotoGP will remain on MTG’s sports channel Viasat Motor and video streaming service Viaplay in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and the Baltics throughout the 2017-2019 seasons. The FIM MotoGP World Championship season covers […]
BT has revealed plans to transform its BT TV service over the coming months, introducing a new, image-rich user experience with easy access to channels and on demand content, and a new BT TV App. The ‘next-generation’ service will enable customers to manage their recordings and stream live and on demand programmes on mobile devices, […]