Global digital media motorsport company Motorsport.tv has agreed a new distribution deal with North American sports OTT provider fuboTV. Motorsport.tv will be adding its premier North American racing packages to fuboTV’s ‘Adventure Plus’ package, extending its signature motorsport series to a new subscriber audience of more than 150,000 sports fans. Launched in 2015, fuboTV’s OTT […]
Two bar licensees from Wembley in North London have been found guilty in their absence of a collective eleven offences each of dishonest reception of a television transmission by showing Sky Sports to customers without a commercial agreement from Sky. Rakesh Patel (Manager of Diu Bar) and Mineshkumer Valgi (Designated Premises Supervisor) were each found […]
Zhao Yueqin, a VP at StarTimes Group, has handed over the keys to three valuable Outside Broadcast trucks to Beaton Kaluba, who received them in a ceremony in Beijing on behalf of the Zambian government and its Zambian National Broadcasting Corp (ZNBC). The two OB vans and a digital satellite news-gathering vehicle will be used […]
Mediavision research finds that over 60 per cent of Swedish households subscribe to at least one service for music or TV streaming. And among the streaming households, almost half subscribe to a music service, a high figure also internationally. The great interest in Spotify among Swedes is partly explained by the country’s general interest in […]
Netflix has announced its first Netflix Original Korean variety show entitled Busted! I Know Who You Are. The show is a new type of K-variety where 7 main cast members position themselves as detectives that set out to solve a mystery in each of the episodes. The show features an all-star K-variety cast including Yoo […]
TiVo has announced that Starz Entertainment, a media distribution company that owns several TV networks in the US, has signed a long-term intellectual property (IP) licence. Starz is acquiring a licence to the TiVo patent portfolios and the OTT assets of the Intellectual Ventures patent portfolio under the TiVo/IV licensing partnership. “This licensing agreement with […]
YANGA!, the new general entertainment channel for the UK’s African diaspora, is now available on Freesat channel 171. The channel’s broad schedule combines the best entertainment television produced from across the continent, plus a bold new series of original programmes produced locally by the diaspora. “YANGA! means self-pride and showing-off in West African pidgin,” says […]
Content protection technology specialist ContentArmor has confirmed that its video watermarking solution is compatible with Dolby Vision HDR. ContentArmor and Dolby have collaborated to enable interoperability between both technologies, from content distribution workflows to end users’ visual experience. Forensic watermarking applications improve the ability of content owners and distributors to detect and mitigate the misuse […]
Vubiquity, now part of Amdocs and provider of premium content services and media technology solutions, has extended its long-standing relationship with Turner as the primary distributor of its VoD content. Vubiquity distributes TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network, CNN and other Turner networks to 60 million+ households across North America and Canada. As part of this new […]
24i Media, a global TV app developer, is helping power the newly launched Tennis Channel app, which is now available on iOS, Android, Apple TV, Amazon Fire and Roku devices. The redesigned app lets fans watch tennis anywhere in the home or on the go. “Our fans expect access to tennis anytime, anywhere and on […]