In advance of the formal launch of its OTT service DirecTV NOW at the end of the month, AT&T has reached an agreement with Fox Networks Group to extend the Fox portfolio of networks across AT&T DirecTV products including DirecTV NOW. Fox programming available to DirecTV NOW customers will include: Fox News Channel, Fox Business […]
BBC Worldwide has signed a deal with TVB to launch its suite of five channels and brands in Hong Kong. BBC First, BBC Lifestyle, BBC Earth, CBeebies and BBC World News are now available on myTVSuper, TVB’s new subscription service that is available on the set top box, mobile and tablet as an app. Subscribers […]
Turkish digital TV platform Digiturk has retained the broadcasting rights for the Turkish Super Leagues for another five years. Digiturk outbid rival platform Turkcell Superonline to land all broadcasting rights for the Turkish top tier football through its bid worth $500 million per annum. With value added tax the figure is expected to be closer […]
Sky’s Group CEO Jeremy Darroch has said that while sport remains a key part of its broadcast portfolio, the content rights aren’t as important as they once were. Speaking at a Morgan Stanley investor conference in Barcelona, Darroch said: “Sport is very important, obviously football is very important, but relatively, every day it is less […]
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, […]