Prime Video has secured the rights to exclusively broadcast the Tuesday night top-pick matches of the UEFA Champions League for three seasons from 2024/25, taking. These fixtures will always feature an English team during the group stages and, where they have qualified, through to the semi-finals. The deal ends BT Sport’s current exclusive coverage of […]
BT Sport has secured the rights to the majority of the UEFA Champions League games, plus all the UEFA Europa League and the UEFA Europa Conference League exclusively live, for a further three seasons, including highlights and in-match clips. BT Sport will continue to make the finals available for all to watch. BT Sport will […]
Ofcom has confirmed that the frequency and length of commercial breaks on UK television channels are to be reassessed in light of evolving viewing habits and the rise of streaming services. Current rules state that, for ITV/STV, Channel 4 and Channel 5, the total amount of advertising in any one day must not exceed an […]
UEFA Champions League highlights will be available for the first time on BBC platforms from 2024-25 for three years. The BBC will become home to Wednesday night highlights from 2024 onwards, showcasing all of the action from the European club football across its linear, digital and social channels, delivering all of the goals and key […]
French pay-TV operator Canal+ has, for the first time, secured exclusive rights to UEFA’s three premier club football tournaments: the Champions League, the Europa League, and the Europa Conference League. The three-season deal covers 2024/2025 though to 2026/2027. Canal + will also for the first time, offer its subscribers the progress of the leading French […]
Mobile industry trade body the GSMA has released analysis of the spectrum needs of 5G networks across low, mid- and high bands which it says delivers a clear vision of the spectrum capacity required to integrate 5G into the lives of businesses and consumers up to 2030. Two new reports, Vision 2030: Low-band spectrum for […]
Turkey has banned two international public broadcasters. The websites of Germany’s Deutsche Welle and the Turkish-language version of US public radio service Voice of America were blocked by an Ankara court after they refused to comply with a request to obtain a broadcast licence. The two outlets had argued that being regulated by the country’s […]
Spanish-language media and content company TelevisaUnivision has confirmed that ViX+ will debut on July 21st in the US, Mexico, and most of Spanish-speaking Latin America, with a monthly price of $6.99 (€6.69) in the US and MX$119 in Mexico. ViX+ is the premium tier of ViX, the first large-scale global streaming service created specifically for […]
NBCUniversal reports that it has has successfully closed a record breaking 2022-23 Global, National and Local Upfront. The company says that its results demonstrate the impact, value and scale of the leading media and technology company’s early investment in and operationalisation of its tech enabled trading model ‘One Platform’. Combined with its continued commitment to […]
Redge Technologies has extended its contract with TVN Warner Bros Discovery for the licensing of the Redge Media SDP platform and the provision of Redge Media VDP services. Player.pl has been operating on the Redge Media platform as an end-to-end deployment since 2017. Player.pl is the largest and most popular VoD service in Poland. According […]
South African broadcaster e.tv has said it knows it needs to vacate the analogue spectrum bands as soon as possible for the nation to progress. Earlier this week it won a major victory from South Africa’s Constitutional Court extending its rights to continue analogue broadcasting. But the company says it recognises that its usage of […]
Tencent’s share price in Hong Kong fell back 1.5 per cent on June 28th, but Prosus NV stock jumped 10 per cent on the Amsterdam market while shares in Naspers (on the Jo-berg market) rose 13 per cent on the decision by Naspers to buy back its own stock for cancellation. Prosus/Naspers CEO Bob van […]
The funding of TV of all kinds is under the microscope just now. For example; can public broadcasters justify collecting a tax from whole populations? Or, dare SVoDs run ads, or cut-off password sharers? Tricky. The BBC is the most-high profile of PSBs and, therefore, the alternative that does (or does not) emerge to the […]