Overseas supporters of every Scottish Championship club will be able to watch their team live this season, thanks to a new streaming platform being launched by the SPFL. The service will run in partnership with sports OTT specialists, StreamAMG, as part of an initial five-year agreement. The platform, which clubs can also opt to use […]
Scotland’s space-related businesses, already expected to be valued at being worth £2 billion (€2.2bn) by 2030, could grow even more according to a study by Scottish Enterprise. “The rise of the space sector is apparent in the figures from a recent study conducted by Scottish Enterprise that forecast income from the sector could reach over […]
The five space ports under consideration in Scotland have formed an alliance to highlight their plans and eventual activity. Three of the members (in Shetland, Sutherland and the Western Isles) are conventional vertical rocket sites, while two others (in Prestwick and Machrihanish, Argyll) are looked upon as ‘horizontal’ sites that depend on aircraft launches. The […]
Scotland’s ‘Space hub Sutherland’ has gained planning approval to build the rocket launch facility. Development agency Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) intends to create Space Hub Sutherland on land owned by Melness Crofters Estate on the A’ Mhòine peninsula, south of Tongue. HIE had submitted plans in February this year, including an extensive environmental impact […]
Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group), the Nordic streaming company, has extended its exclusive Nordic rights to Scottish Premiership football until the end of the 2024/2025 season. NENT Group will show 48 Scottish Premiership matches live every season on its Viaplay streaming service in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland, as well as in Iceland for the […]
STV Player is expanding its service UK-wide on TV platform Freeview Play. Some 1500 hours of free content is now available on the Scottish VoD catch-up service, and will now also be accessible for viewers across the rest of the UK. Richard Williams, STV’s Managing Director, Digital, said: “The reach of the STV Player is constantly […]
BBC Scotland has appointed Steve Carson, as its new Director. Known as both a content maker and commissioner, and currently Head of Multi-Platform Commissioning for BBC Scotland, Carson will replace Donalda MacKinnon when she steps down as the corporation’s senior figure in Scotland later this year. In his new position, he will be responsible for […]
FreeWheel, a Comcast Company and a provider of video advertising software, has announced its partnership with STV, the home of news and entertainment in Scotland, which will allow the broadcaster to monetise its content across OTT and STB devices. Through FreeWheel’s Monetisation Rights Management (MRM) platform, STV is able to monetise premium video content available […]
STV, the Scottish broadcaster, has agreed a deal with Virgin Media which will give its TV customers across the UK access to the STV Player. The STV Player app and catch-up service was integrated into Virgin Media’s STBs for viewers in Scotland in December 2018. This new deal ensures that STV content can now be […]
The 2020/21 Scottish Premiership season is set to start in August as part of a new deal with Sky Sports that will include ‘virtual season tickets’ for the country’s top-flight football clubs. The Scottish Professional Football League [SPFL] and Sky Sports have agreed terms that provide a framework for the top flight of Scottish football […]