Advanced Television

Spain: DAZN extends Premier League rights

DAZN will keep on showing the Premier League in Spain until 2025. The online sports platform has renewed their contract with the top-flight English football league for another three years, giving it the rights to 235 matches per season. Its current deal expires after the 2021/22 season. An agreement with Movistar means matches can also […]

July 14, 2021

Research: A third of kids choose TV content for family viewing

GWI, the target audience company, has launched its new dataset, GWI Kids and accompanying report, Kids These Days, which delves into the attitudes, behaviours and beliefs of over 15,400 kids aged 8-15. Uniquely tailored to bring their perspectives to the surface, GWI Kids uncovers children’s expectations of brands today, and builds an authentic understanding of […]

July 14, 2021

Spain: Vodafone launches new TV 4K Pro STB

Vodafone Spain is launching a new STB, the Vodafone TV 4K Pro. The device makes its debut in Spain, following its launch in France, with a Bang & Olufsen audio system, bluetooth, 4K HRD video, voice control and V Home and Amazon Alexa. It also includes three integrated loudspeakers with Dolby Atmos sound. +With a […]

July 14, 2021From David Del Valle in Madrid

EE to offer 5G solutions across the UK

BT has unveiled plans to offer high performance 5G solutions across the entire UK and to fuse its leading mobile, Wi-Fi and fibre infrastructures to realise the potential of the UK’s first fully converged network. This long-term vision means BT is building and bonding next-generation fibre and 5G networks simultaneously. BT says the smart infrastructure […]

July 14, 2021

Bank: Video games sector to stay robust

A report from equity analysts at investment bank Berenberg on the games and gaming sector, and covering such high-profile businesses as Ubisoft, Electronic Arts, Activision and others, says that while some observers were forecasting a collapse of the sector as the world comes out of Covid, the bank suggests otherwise. Berenberg says that after more […]

July 14, 2021By Chris Forrester

Channel 4, Snapchat extend content deal

Channel 4 and Snap have announced a new two-year deal to bring more than 1,000 episodes of the broadcaster’s shows to the social media platform. The deal extends last year’s partnership which saw over 300 short form edits of Channel 4 content air on Snapchat’s Discover platform; Channel 4’s portfolio of shows reached 44 million […]

July 14, 2021

Eleven Belgium scores new package of international football

Eleven Belgium has agreed a new rights deal to broadcast the UEFA Nations League, alongside the UEFA Euro 2024 and FIFA World Cup 2026 qualifiers. Eleven’s UEFA Nations League coverage will get underway again in October with the semi-final clashes Belgium vs France and Italy vs Spain. Eleven will go on to bring fans all […]

July 14, 2021

Australia: Seven to broadcast Extreme E

Australian media company, the Seven Network, has confirmed it will broadcast innovative electric race series, Extreme E, on its free-to-air network and VoD platform, 7plus. Seven, which is part of Seven West Media, will air Extreme E’s one-hour highlights programmes throughout its capital cities including Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, and regional Queensland. Produced […]

July 14, 2021

Mediaocean to acquire Flashtalking

Mediaocean, the mission-critical platform for omnichannel advertising, and Flashtalking, an independent ad management platform, have entered into a definitive agreement in which Mediaocean will acquire Flashtalking. The combined entity will infuse Flashtalking’s solutions for primary ad serving, creative personalisation, identity management, and verification with Mediaocean’s modern system of record used by a number of global brands […]

July 14, 2021

Amazon Alexa on third-party TVs

Amazon Alexa will be coming to a wide range of third-party TVs powered by webOS, LG Electronics’ proprietary TV platform. TV brands such as Advance, Blaupunkt, Eko, JSW, Manta, Polaroid, RCA, Seiki and Skytech as well as original design manufacturers Ayonz, Dualshine, Konka, Silicon Player, Skyworth and Xianyou, among others, will soon be offering this […]

July 14, 2021