DHX Media, a global children’s content and brands company, has announced a distribution deal with Virgin TV UK for SVoD rights in the UK and Ireland, and linear rights for its Irish network, TV3 Ireland, for a total of 615 half-hours of content. A total of 30 titles from DHX Media’s library have been licensed […]
Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN), a division of Viacom, has announced that Comedy Central’s flagship late night talk show The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, is launching on Amazon Alexa for customers in the UK. Fans with Alexa devices now have access to a Daily Show Flash Briefing, featuring a daily snippet of news from […]
Scripps Networks International has selected Encompass CloudVOD, a cloud-based VoD service, as its exclusive solution for delivering VoD content to the EMEA region. CloudVOD is powered by Microsoft Azure and uses powerful automation and orchestration engines to manage Scripps’ VoD workflow including the delivery of assets to the largest VoD platform footprint in EMEA. “With […]
Global TV operator SPI International / FilmBox is launching six channels on E-vision, an IPTV platform operated by Etisalat in the UAE. SPI International and E-Vision signed an agreement to launch six channels from SPI’s worldwide TV portfolio including a movie channel FilmBox, two sports channels – FightBox HD and Fast&FunBox HD, a classic/independent movie […]
Harmonic, a specialist in video delivery infrastructure, has announced that GTPL, India’s leading digital cable TV distribution company, which reaches an estimate of more than 8 million households in more than 189 cities, has deployed a next-generation software-based unified video headend system from Harmonic. At the heart of the solution is Harmonic’s Electra X2 advanced […]
Arqiva, the leading UK communications infrastructure company, has announced its involvement in the delivery of Gulli Bil Arabi – an international version of France’s leading children’s TV channel, Gulli – to 18 new territories across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Channel owner Lagardère Active – the media activities arm of French media conglomerate […]
Not for the first time, but once again, Discovery Communications and Scripps Networks Interactive are talking about merging their broadcasting assets. Although it is by no means certain that a deal will be consummated, the mere fact that the pair have reportedly come back to the negotiating table is indicative of a willingness to explore […]
According to research from consultancy firm Dataxis, pay-TV piracy reached 7 per cent of TV households in Latin America, with 11.8 million consumers. Dataxis suggests total illegal access to pay-TV could be positioned as the third largest player on the market, behind América Móvil and DirecTV. However, Dataxis predicts that piracy will maintain a slight […]
NBC News is trying to connect with young viewers by creating a twice-daily news show exclusively for Snapchat. Stay Tuned will appear in Snapchat’s “Discover” section in the morning and evening each weekday, and once on Saturdays and Sundays. The general news show will be about two and a half minutes in length. Snap and […]
The negotiations for US TV’s primetime upfront for the 2017-18 season are nearly complete and Media Dynamics estimates that total ad revenue for the broadcast TV networks and cable channels amounted to $19.73 billion (€17.13bn), an increase of 5.9 per cent over the previous upfront. While the broadcast TV networks sold approximately $9.1 billion of […]