Spanish production company Mediapro and Qatar’s Al Jazeera have signed an agreement to launch the Sports TV channel beIN Sports in Spain on August 1st. The channel will be made available to all the main pay-TV operators and will broadcast the main international football competitions such as the Uefa Champions League and the Europa League, […]
CanalPlay, the Canal+ Group’s streaming service, has agreed a deal with Disney France to launch Maker On Demand, a new product offering from Maker Studios. Available at no additional cost, nor commitment to CanalPlay subscribers and featuring short-form video from Maker’s portfolio of content, Maker On Demand will launch in the summer of 2015. CanalPlay […]
Eleven per cent of Dutch households had a Netflix subscription in Q4 2014, according to research from Telecompaper. Local streaming video services Videoland Unlimited and NLziet are much less popular, with only a fraction of the subscribers. A quarter of all Netflix customers are still in their free trial. Nevertheless, Netflix seems well able to […]
Sky has expanded its Buy & Keep service to all Sky Store customers in the UK and Ireland, not just Sky+HD subscribers. The service sees users receive a free DVD copy of any film they order digitally. The movie is sent out in DVD format a few days after the customer purchases a Buy & […]
Broadcasters must find mechanisms that easily allow them to package TV with online video, just as publishers have learned to package digital and print, according to a whitepaper from programmatic video advertising platform, SpotXchange. With convergence in the video market progressing rapidly, broadcasters need a centralised platform to manage and package advertising across content distribution […]
Asia’s biggest Multi Channel Network (MCN) and Digital Studio, WebTVAsia has signed a multi-year partnership with global video platform Dailymotion to collaborate on a 100-channel roll-out as well as exclusive co-production for the Asian market. Marc Eychenne, Vice President of Content at Dailymotion, commented: “We are extremely proud to be associated with WebTVAsia, the most […]
Game of Thrones returned to Sky Atlantic on April 13th with a record audience of nearly 1.6 million viewers. The eagerly anticipated fifth season of the HBO fantasy drama hit had 1.57 million viewers for its premiere episode, a 6.7 per cent share of the audience from 9pm on Monday, despite the first 4 episodes […]
A SpaceX rocket, which had been used to make a routine cargo delivery to the International Space Station, successfully returned its potentially reusable upper stage to Earth, itself a major achievement, but the returning stage made a “hard landing” onto its ‘spaceport drone ship’, a floating landing stage in the Atlantic Ocean. This was the […]
Netflix is making its content more accessible for blind and visually-impaired subscribers. The streaming service is introducing audio descriptions that describe “what is happening on screen, including physical actions, facial expressions, costumes, settings and scene changes”. Customers can choose to use it as they would a foreign language soundtrack. The new service began rolling out […]
Sky Atlantic has struck a deal with HBO to simulcast all future episodes. From next week, the hit fantasy drama will air at 2am on the channel, meaning UK viewers will be able to watch the show at the same time as 170 other countries around the world. Sky Atlantic’s official Twitter account confirmed the […]