Eleven Sports has secured live and exclusive coverage of the Anthony Joshua and Andy Ruiz Jr rematch in Belgium, Portugal and Taiwan. Joshua will be fighting to reclaim the IBF, WBA, WBO and IBO heavyweight titles from ‘The Destroyer’ in Saudi Arabia on December 7th. Eleven Sports viewers will be able to experience every moment […]
Netflix entered into a multi-year content distribution agreement with JTBC Content Hub, the content arm of South Korean media company JTBC. Starting in 2020, the partnership will allow Netflix to stream JTBC’s prime-time TV dramas across more than 190 countries. With the new deal, JTBC and Netflix will co-develop and showcase JTBC’s prime-time TV drama […]
Discovery has pulled a couple of its channels from the MENA region’s My-HD pay-TV operation citing non-payment of carriage fees. BroadcastPro ME reports that Discovery Science and its Animal Plant channel were pulled on November 21st. Amanda Turnbull, Discovery’s VP for the MENA region, is quoted as saying that it was with great reluctance that […]
Frame.io, a video review and collaboration platform used by over one million filmmakers and media professionals, has raised a $50 million (€45.4m) Series C round to help support its next big push into cloud-enabled motion picture workflows. Frame.io said it will also use this round of financing to continue its deep investment into airtight security, […]
The Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) – an independent not-for-profit organisation which establishes and enforces responsible privacy practices for relevant digital advertising – has announced cross-industry tools for publishers, brands, agencies and adtech in the digital advertising supply chain to provide consumers a clear and recognisable mechanism to opt out under the California Consumer Privacy Act […]
AMC Networks has announced that Noel Manzano has joined the company as its vice president of international programming. In this role, he will identify and develop original content with creative talent around the world, and work within the AMC Networks Entertainment Group to move existing projects forward. He will report to Kristin Jones, executive vice […]
An Inmarsat satellite and an Egyptian craft due for launch on November 25th were again forced to accept a delay from Arianespace, this time because of bad weather. The previous hold was on November 23rd when a power supply electrical glitch forced a delay with just 20 minutes on the countdown clock remaining. Arianespace is […]
To further advance its practice of commingling TV viewership data from Smart TVs (ACR) with the same from cable and satellite set-top boxes, VideoAmp is partnering with TiVo. The expanded data set extends VideoAmp’s TV Viewership data pool to cover 25 million devices in 19 million US households and gives marketers and media owners sophisticated […]
Singaporeans can watch Team Singapore athletes in eSports as Mediacorp adds a dedicated Toggle channel offering live coverage of eSports events at the 30th SEA Games. This is in addition to the three other channels available on Toggle, providing comprehensive coverage of the Games for local viewers. For the first time, eSports will be a […]
Minute Media, a global technology and digital publishing platform, and The Players’ Tribune, a first-of-its-kind athlete-led content platform, have announced that The Players’ Tribune will become part of Minute Media’s publishing portfolio, adding this brand to Minute Media’s sports offering while providing enhanced technology, infrastructure and global reach to The Players’ Tribune. Terms of the […]