The US’s leading creative industries, whose products and services are fostered and protected by copyright laws, has called on the US Government to leverage US trade agreements and other trade tools to further open key international markets to opportunities for legitimate digital business, and to address acts, practices and policies that stand as obstacles to […]
Short-form video content specialist The QYOU has confirmed that Vodafone Portugal has launched The QYOU’s linear channel on its IPTV service, Vodafone TV. The service went live on February 1st 2016 and will air to almost 400,000 subscribers across the country. The launch marks The QYOU’s entry into the Portuguese market. According to The QYOU, […]
Lagardère Active TV and DreamWorks Animation (DWA) have agreed a carriage deal which gives Lagardère free-to-air and basic pay-tv rights for its family and kids channels to broadcast DreamWorks Animation’s television series, including Dragons: Race to the Edge, The Adventures of Puss in Boots, All Hail King Julien, Turbo FAST, The Mr. Peabody & Sherman […]
Content protection and data-analytics solutions specialist MUSO has revealed what it describes as a major new addition to its range of market analytics and audience connection products with the launch of Retune, developed to help rights owners market their content directly to piracy audiences, and enable those audiences to reconnect to licensed content. According to […]
Eurosport and Dorna WorldSBK Organisation have confirmed the early extension of their long-term rights agreement for the 2017, 2018 and 2019 seasons. The announcement comes as Eurosport prepares to fuel the passion of motorsports fans throughout the 2016 WorldSBK season, starting February 26th. The renewal will see the MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship, including its […]
Gary Davey, Managing Director, Content, Sky, has suggested that going forward, the pan-European broadcaster will focus increasingly on entertainment, declaring that done properly, the genre could be just as engaging as football, a mainstay of Sky’s UK business and an important component of its German and Italian operations. In a Royal Television Society ‘In conversation […]
Astro Malaysia Holdings Berhad (Astro), the Malaysian media entertainment group, has successfully secured the Premier League (EPL) broadcast rights in Malaysia for the next three seasons from 2016/17 to 2018/19. Henry Tan, Chief Operating Officer of Astro said, “Astro has strengthened its position as the home of sports and the unrivalled choice for sports fans […]
The Bundesliga will not be allowed to sell exclusive rights for live television broadcasts after the country’s competition watchdog insisted on a “no single buyer” rule for the imminent rights auction, according to Reuters. While German football fans may have to subscribe to more than one pay-TV service to watch all live broadcasts in future, […]
Tencent, one of China’s and the world’s leading providers of online products and services, has reached an agreement with global sports content company ESPN. The deal builds on Tencent’s vast user base across the globe and ESPN’s expertise in sports content creation. Through the collaboration, ESPN’s content will be localised and exclusively distributed and promoted […]
A television critic has suggested that Sky’s practice of buying up the later seasons of non-UK television programmes that had already proved themselves popular with UK audiences on free-to-air channels is preventing such shows from reaching a substantial audience in the UK. Writing in left-leaning weekly politics, culture, and international affairs magazine New Statesman, James […]