Watching illegal live content on TV was still widespread in 2022 and has actually increased noticeably in recent years. Since the economic losses are at the expense of commercial media organisations, the effect of this is to weaken media and opinion diversity in Germany. This is the conclusion of a study commissioned by the Vaunet […]
DAZN has extended its partnership with UEFA and remains the home of the Champions League in Germany. The sports streaming service has secured the rights to the tournament until 2027 and will continue to broadcast more matches than any other service, live and exclusive, also for the upcoming rights cycle starting in the 2024/25 season. […]
ITV Studios dating format Make Love, Fake Love, which debuted in the UK in 2021 as Ready to Mingle, is launching in Germany before the end of the year, with Hungary to follow in 2023. The format has, to date, been commissioned in three territories in total including the UK as the originating territory. In […]
German Producer, Broadview, and Ukrainian Producer, Space, together with The Organization of Ukrainian Producers (OUP) started the last film shootings for the documentary film Art in War. The film will debut on cultural TV Channel ARTE in spring 2023. The first lady of Ukraine, Olena Zelenska, speaks exclusively in the film. The interview touches upon […]
Samsung TV Plus users in Germany now have free access to live sports content from the top European football leagues, as well as exclusively produced shows for the UEFA Champions League, with the launch of the sports channel, DAZN FAST+. Launched across Europe in 2019, Samsung TV Plus now has more than 1,000 channels in […]
Big Light Productions, the producer behind Leonardo and The Man in the High Castle led by award-winning writer/producer Frank Spotnitz, has announced the recipient of its annual writers’ apprenticeship programme. Anna-Lena Theobald will join Big Light Productions for a three-month placement. The apprenticeship programme, which provides emerging writers with hands-on practical experience in a writers’ […]
Fibre is increasingly taking root in the five largest European markets. Since the first quarter of 2021, 1.8 million broadband FTTx subscriptions have been taken on average each quarter to reach more than 37 million subscriptions across 146 million households at Q2 2022 in those five countries, reports Dataxis. The technology has disrupted the broadband […]
Germany-based Reflex Aerospace has raised about €7 million as part of its European Union-backed project to launch broadband satellites into orbit. Reflex Aerospace is heading up its UN:IO low Earth orbit constellation scheme and with Luxembourg-based SES also involved. It received €1.4 million from the European Commission to prepare a feasibility study. The cash raised […]
M7, a German provider of TV entertainment for cable and IP networks, is experiencing strong demand for its products and services with eight new customers. The new M7 partners are leading municipal utilities, fibre optic network operators and regional telecommunications companies in Germany and Austria, who can upgrade their networks, strengthen customer loyalty and win […]
The World Cup group fixture between Spain and Germany on November 29th pulled in a peak TV audience of 9.9 million on BBC One, making it the most-watched World Cup game without a competing home-nation so far in the UK. The match was also streamed over 3.5 million times on BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport […]