The 20 highest earning football clubs in the world generated €6.6 billion of revenue last season, an increase of 8 per cent on the previous year, according to the 19th edition of the Football Money League from Deloitte, the business advisory firm. Real Madrid top the Deloitte Football Money League for the eleventh year in […]
Sky and CBS Corporation have announced a long-term licensing agreement for Sky Atlantic to be the exclusive home to Showtime’s growing portfolio of programming across all its territories in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria and Italy. Previously, Sky has licensed select Showtime content from CBS on a programme by programme basis. The deal will span […]
The BBC has agreed a new deal which will see it continue to screen the biggest events in snooker – the World Championship, UK Championship and The Masters – until 2019. Despite the corporation currently undergoing a series of cost-cutting measures, it still paid out around £6.5 million (€8.4m) for the rights according to reports.
UK commercial broadcaster Channel 4 has confirmed the ten Formula 1 Grands Prix it will broadcast live in 2016, which will include the 2016 Formula 1 British Grand Prix on July 10th. Channel 4 took over the UK free-to-air rights from the BBC as the Corporation withdrew from its contract as part of its cost-cutting […]
Analysts from Media Partners Asia (MPA) estimate that Netflix could secure 9 million paying subs in Asia-Pacific by 2020, without assuming significant localisation in markets such as India and Korea. Vivek Couto, executive director of Media Partners Asia, suggests that the Internet TV service’s wider entry into Asia-Pacific is a major catalyst for the growth […]
Responding to pay-TV competitor Singtel’s deal to offer its customers access to Netflix, Singaporean operator StarHub and Netflix have agreed a partnership that will bring the streaming service to StarHub’s Fibre TV customers through their set-top boxes by the early second quarter of 2016. StarHub will also join the Netflix Open Connect programme to provide […]
Hot on the heels of announcing a global launch and the addition of 130 countries to its operations, streaming giant Netfllix is taking steps to reduce the usage of proxies that enable ‘subscribers’ to access content only available outside their licensed territory. Writing in the company blog, David Fullagar, Vice President of Content Delivery Architecture, […]
The acquisition by Telefonica’s Movistar of the exclusive rights to La Liga over the next three years threatens to cause a new football TV war in Spain. Telefonica’s main rivals Vodafone and Orange have demanded access to La Liga rights over the next three seasons. The companies argue that the dominant operator should open up […]
In a move that it describes as “transformational” and which significantly enhances its content portfolio, Canadian integrated media and content company Corus Entertainment is to acquire Shaw Media, the television broadcasting division of Shaw Communications from the telco in a C$2.65 billion (€1.70bn) cash and stock deal. The transaction will give Corus ownership of all […]
The TF1 group has acquired from FIFA a package of media rights for the next four major world football competitions, enhancing the Group’s line-up of major sporting events across all its media platforms (broadcast and digital) in France: – The 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia and the 2022 FIFA World Cup™ in Qatar: The […]