In its latest effort to combat piracy further, US pay-TV operator DISH has filed a lawsuit against the makers of the Loolbox streaming device, which unlawfully retransmits numerous Arabic TV channels. The lawsuit was filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas and names Defendants Lool Tech Co., Limited and Shenzhen […]
Ofcom has closed its two-year investigation of the Premier League’s TV rights auction – a move which complainant Virgin Media believes will lead to price hikes for football fans. The media watchdog launched the investigation in 2014 after Virgin Media lodged a complaint arguing that the Premier League should make all 380 matches live on […]
A pub landlady in the UK Midlands city of Birmingham has been fined £50,000 (€58,940) after being caught illegally showing football on Sky Sports, having earlier received a final warning for committing an identical offence. She was also told to pay £24,000 costs for breaching copyright by showing the Premier League games. Sky Sports brought […]
Eurosport has confirmed an extended partnership with The All England Club, Wimbledon, to present all matches of tennis tournament in an additional sixteen countries. The new agreement means Eurosport show all four Grand Slam tournaments – Wimbledon, Australian Open, Roland-Garros and US Open – in 25 countries across Europe. From next year’s Championships in 2017, […]
Time Warner is to become a 10 per cent owner of premium streaming TV service Hulu. Time Warner joins The Walt Disney Company, 21st Century Fox, and Comcast in the joint venture. Reports emerged mid-November 2015 that Hulu was seeking to sell a stake to Time Warner as part of a deal that would value the company at […]
Vevo CEO Erik Huggers will be making a keynote speech at IBC in a few weeks with an especially wide smile on his face having wrapped the last of the ‘music majors’ in the form of Warner Music, to the Vevo distribution family. Vevo already carries Universal and Sony output, both of which hold equity […]
Baroness (Lucy) Neville-Rolfe has retained her responsibility for Intellectual Property following her promotion to Minister of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in the Government reorganisation of mid-July 2016. She previously handled the brief as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary jointly with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the former Department […]
International TV and broadband company Liberty Global and independent television, film and digital production and distribution company All3Media have agreed a major multi-territorial original programming partnership. The deal, for four major original drama series over the next two years, marks the first time that Liberty Global has agreed to a multi-territorial deal with a production […]
The Spanish La Liga and pay-TV platform Orange Spain have reached an agreement whereby the French operator will broadcast La Liga 1|2|3 (the second Spanish division) over the next three seasons from 2016/2017. Orange TV will broadcast 10 football matches live and one recorded every weekend, with a multi-screen option for viewers to watch several […]
Qatar’s beIN Sports held the exclusive TV broadcast rights for the Middle East to last month’s UEFA European Football Championships. beIN Sports is accusing Iran’s state-backed broadcaster IRIB of deliberately pirating the signals and ignoring the established protocols over use of rights. UEFA has separately said that broadcasters which violated its rules would face fines. […]