The global television industry is in the midst of a digital revolution, and it is now clear that streaming video and non-linear viewing will be the most disruptive forces this industry has ever experienced, according to a new report – The Digital Revolution Is Disrupting the TV Industry – by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). […]
Sticking to its strategy to make the Olympic Games available to more viewers and across more screens in Europe than ever before, Discovery Communications has formed a TV and multi-platform broadcast agreement with NOS in the Netherlands. This deal will make the 2018 and 2020 Olympic Games available to Dutch viewers on both NOS and […]
Leaders from across the UK home entertainment industry gathered in London for the annual Insight Forum, from the newly-rebranded British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE). The event – Driving the Video Category Forward – was produced in association with the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA). Previously known as the British Video Association (BVA), the British Association […]
The City of London Police’s Intellectual Property Unit (PIPCU) has been involved in a day of action to disrupt the sale of set-top boxes which have been illegally modified to stream pirated channels which include movies and sports. The co-ordinated operation resulted in six arrests, following the execution of seven search warrants and inspections at […]
Econet Media has acquired a package of Premier League free-to-air broadcasting rights that it makes available in Sub Saharan Africa. The agreement is for the three seasons 2016/17 – 2018/19 and will see Econet, through its Kwesé Sports platform, make available one Saturday afternoon Premier League match live on a free-to-air basis each weekend of […]
Reflecting the evolving video market, the British Video Association (BVA) – which has a proud heritage representing the interests of publishers and rights-owners of pre-recorded filmed entertainment for the past 35 years – has unveiled its rebrand and positioning to become the British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE). Explaining the rebrand – unveiled at the […]
Mexican TV group Televisa has confirmed it is removing all it content from Netflix in order to keep the content exclusively for its own VoD platform, Blim, that will launch later this year. “Televisa content will be exclusively for Blim; that’s our strategy,” said Blim’s director general, Carlos Sandoval in an interview with Forbes. There […]
Pan-European broadcaster Sky is continuing its strategy of backing US technology and OTT players with a $6 million (€5.47m) investment in fuboTV, a US-based video streaming service that provides subscribers with a premium, over-the-top bundle of sports TV channels. This is part of fuboTV’s Series B round of funding, which has also seen Sky’s main […]
Virgin Media has agreed a partnership with Endemol Shine International to bring the hit US show Kingdom to the UK, exclusively for its TV customers to watch on demand from April 1st. Virgin Media has signed an exclusive licensing deal with the distributor for the first two series of Kingdom comprising of thirty one-hour episodes. […]
Live streaming and live-to-VoD solutions provider Simplestream is partnering with sports media rights specialist MP & Silva. The partnership will see Simplestream provide services and solutions that support MP & Silva’s Technology Services Ecosystem, enabling its sports federations, clubs and media clients to maximise audiences through multiscreen and OTT video services. Simplestream will support MP […]