Prime Video has announced having sealed several movie agreements in France with major US studios. Revealing its European strategy at the Seaview Producers Hub during MIPCOM in Cannes, Sahar Baghery, head of Acquisition in France, said the SVoD service had signed for a second window with Sony Pictures for Marvel titles such as Spider-Man: No […]
Bedrock, a European streaming technology company, has successfully developed the platform for the newly launched 6play max, a new paid tier for Groupe M6’s leading AVoD service in France. In a fast-paced streaming market where hybrid business models (i.e. subscription & advertising revenues) are becoming increasingly important, Groupe M6 wanted to provide a new response […]
World of Wonder, the multi-Emmy award-winning company, and French broadcaster Endemol and France TV have announced today that Drag Race Francais will return for a second series, casting for which is now open. Drag Race España: All Stars and Drag Race Sweden: Untucked also newly commissioned by Atres and SVT, respectively. As World of Wonder […]
French pay-TV channels are projecting to attract 2.9 million additional subscribers by the end of 2026 to reach between 24 and 25 million subscribing homes, according to French thematic channels association, ACCeS.In 2021, the 114 thematic channels operating in the French metropolitan market registered 22 million subscribing homes, a 6.5 per cent yearly growth, according […]
M6 has launched 6Play max, an ad-free subscription version of streaming and catch-up service 6Play. The M6 pay streaming platform has been developed by technology subsidiariy Bedrock and will be available on Samsung and OS Android smart TVs which account for some 70 per cent of the market in France. This new option is accessible […]
AsiaSat has announced that TV5MONDE, the global television network and broadcaster of French language programming, has selected AsiaSat 5 to distribute TV5MONDE Pacifique HD to serve audiences in regions of North East Asia and Oceania. This is a further addition to TV5MONDE’s TV bouquet on AsiaSat satellites that includes its general entertainment channel TV5MONDE Asie […]
Canal+ Group has secured a range of sport rights for multiple years. Canal+ will air the UEFA Champions League and the Europa League up to 2027, the Premier League until 2025, Rugby Top 14 until 2027 and Formula 1 until 2029. Introducing the Canal+ 2022/2023 season, chairman and CEO Maxime Saada described it as a […]
The European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR) has announced that its long-standing partners, beIN Sports and France Télévisions, have agreed new four-year deals which will see both broadcasters continue their coverage of the Heineken Champions Cup and EPCR Challenge in the key French market. Building on their programming of the tournaments, beIN Sports will once again […]
Canal+ has applied for an urgent hearing at the Tribunal de Commerce de Nanterre (Nanterre Commercial Court) citing TF1 for monopolistic practices. This appears, in part, to be retaliation to TF1´s own complaint against Canal+ after it suspended the broadcast of its five FTA DTT channels on TNT Sat, the free of charge dish service […]
Viaccess-Orca (VO), a provider of OTT and TV platforms, content protection, and advanced data solutions, has announced that Orange France is using VO’s Secure Video Player (VO Player) combined with VO’s QoE metrics dashboard system (VO QoX) to offer a unified and superior user experience across devices and identify severity and sources of poor media […]