Sky Sports and Zuffa Boxing have agreed a new multi-year deal, confirming Sky as the UK and Irish broadcaster for all Zuffa Boxing events. The deal includes at least five shows per year on UK soil. Zuffa – the US start-up and a partnership between Saudi Arabia’s SELA and TKO, the parent company of the […]
Broadcasters are rebuilding live operations workflows around IP delivery as satellite and dedicated fibre distribution decline, according to research from Caretta Research produced in partnership with Zixi. The shift is already transforming live sports production. By moving contribution feeds and master control operations to IP and cloud infrastructure, broadcasters can scale coverage beyond the limits […]
US Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) have sent a letter to ByteDance CEO Liang Rubo regarding Seedance 2.0’s “egregious” infringement of copyrighted materials belonging to American innovators. Senators Blackburn and Welch are calling on the Chinese company to immediately shut down this platform and comply with US copyright law. They contend that […]
Altman Solon has released its 7th Annual Global Sports Survey, Part 2: Unlocking the Full Value of Sports IP. As sports viewing continues to expand beyond live games to non-live formats, the study explores the revenue gap facing sports rights owners. The study makes three key predictions about how rights owners, streamers and legacy media should […]
As previously announced, HBO Max will launch in the UK & Ireland on March 26th. New Saver Plans (only available via the HBO Max website) have been unveiled for customers in the UK looking to stream TNT Sports, which moves to HBO Max in the UK on the day it launches, or the full HBO […]
The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain (WGGB) – the trade union representing professional writers across TV, film, theatre, radio, books, poetry, and video games – has welcomed the UK government’s report on copyright and AI released on March 18th. WGGB General Secretary Ellie Peers said: “Copyright and AI is an issue of huge importance to […]
Sky Media, the advertising arm of Sky, has announced a step forward in its programmatic strategy, enabling advertisers to access VoD inventory via Google Display & Video 360 (DV360). Following a successful pilot, Sky Media will offer programmatic access to broadcast quality VoD across its own platforms and channels, as well as inventory from its broad […]
ProSiebenSat.1 Media has announced that it is selling the connected TV advertising company esome and the retail media specialist Kairion to Pivotum Capital, an investment firm specialised in technology and digital companies and based in Graefelfing. ProSiebenSat.1 said the transaction underlines its strategic focus on its core entertainment business and the monetisation of its entertainment […]
Swisscom has announced that Fastweb + Vodafone and TIM have entered into a non-binding agreement aimed at developing and operating new mobile towers with up to 6,000 new sites in Italy. The joint initiative is designed also to support the swift deployment of 5G networks in the country. It will allow Fastweb + Vodafone and […]
A new study of over-the-air television viewers in the US finds strong interest in an affordable NEXTGEN TV converter box, with 81 per cent of respondents saying they would purchase a converter box to maintain access to their free local broadcast TV stations. Pearl TV is working with several manufacturers to develop a range of […]
SWISSto12 – a manufacturer of advanced satellite and payload systems – has announced the inauguration of a purpose-built assembly facility in Renens, Switzerland, to support the industrial-scale production of its HummingSat geostationary satellite platform. HummingSat is SWISSto12’s new class of small geostationary satellite, empowering nations and operators to deploy resilient communications with greater autonomy and […]
Tech giant Nvidia has revealed that it is working on a suite of new chipsets which will be combined with a processing computers for use in space and orbiting data-centres. “It’s going to start data-centers out in space. Of course, in space there’s no conduction, no convection, there’s just radiation, so we have to figure […]
Congratulations(!!???) to Paramount shareholders – you have won the battle for Warner Bros Discovery (WBD). Your board has done it by throwing the kitchen sink at its target – that’s a sink with a super clever three way tap and a massive waste disposal unit. You have to read the terms they have offered more […]