Spanish telcos Orange-Jazztel and Vodafone-ONO have jointly acquired the football TV rights to La Liga for public venues (hotels, bars, restaurants) for over the next three seasons. It includes all football matches from the First and Second Division and the Copa del Rey. They will pay €300 million for the TV rights which the companies […]
YouTube is seeking to acquire rights for streaming TV series and movies for its $9.99-a-month (€9.44) YouTube Red subscription service as it looks to compete with rivals such as Netflix and Amazon, according to the Wall Street Journal. It is understood that company executives have met with Hollywood studios and other production companies in recent […]
Spain’s top flight football league La Liga has agreed a domestic television deal worth €2.65 billion. Including international rights deals struck in the summer, La Liga’s overall television revenue has risen from €800 million a season to nearly €1.5 billion a season. Telefónica subsidiary Movistar will have first choice of one match from each round […]
Cable and satellite programmer UKTV is launching three channels on subscription-free satellite TV platform Freesat, marking the next step in its platform growth strategy. Yesterday, Drama and Really will be available to users of the service. “We work hard to secure platform deals that give more people our channels, and ultimately grow UKTV’s footprint,” said […]
Vibrant TV has acquired the television series Antiques Road Trip from distributor Red Arrow International. Vibrant TV will debut the international reality series on its 24/7 programming service that reaches a national viewing audience via a growing roster of carriage partners including Roku, Amazon Fire, Channel Master, Klowd TV, FilmOn, Yip TV, among others. “We […]
In a deal that marks a first such foray into exclusive programming, UK quad-play operator Virgin Media has brought cult US TV show and highly anticipated Starz Original series – Ash vs Evil Dead – to the UK, exclusively for its TV customers to watch on demand. Virgin Media has signed an exclusive licensing deal […]
Enterprise-class subscription billing specialist Vindicia has confirmed that BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, has chosen Vindicia’s CashBox solution to manage ecommerce on BBC Store, the Corporation’s new direct-to-consumer retail platform that enables audiences to buy and keep copies of their favourite BBC TV programmes. BBC Store will be integrated with the BBC’s […]
Further to advanced-television.com’s revelation that multinational cable, fibre, telecommunications, contents and media company Altice had snatched the rights from holder Canal Plus, Altice has confirmed it has acquired the exclusive football broadcasting rights for France and Monaco for the Barclays English Premier League. Fixed and Mobile customers of Altice and affiliates in France and Monaco […]
Rugby League will reach more fans than ever before – both in Australia and globally – under a massive new NRL broadcast deal. The ARL Commission, Nine Network, News Corp Australia, Fox Sports, and Telstra have formed a partnership to provide free to air television, pay television and mobile coverage of Rugby League for five […]
French sports newspaper L’Equipe is reporting that Canal Plus has lost its TV rights to air English Premier League football matches. The rights have been picked up, says the report, by multinational telco and cable operator Altice. L’Equipe says Altice’s new rights kick in from the autumn of 2016, and will run for 3 years. […]