On February 15th 2016, 1970s New York-set drama Vinyl will broadcast simultaneously on Sky Atlantic and HBO with a two-hour premiere at 2am, repeated at 9pm. Created by Mick Jagger, Martin Scorsese and Terence Winter, the ten-part drama stars Bobby Cannavale, Olivia Wilde, Ray Romano, Ato Essandoh, Max Casella, P.J. Byrne, J.C. MacKenzie, Birgitte Hjort […]
Korean telco SK Telecom is to acquire the country’s largest cable MSO CJ HelloVision as it seeks to extend its involvement in the media platform business. SK Telecom will take over a 30 per cent stake for 500 billion won (€400m) in CJ HelloVision from its parent firm CJ O Shopping, with plans to buy […]
Dutch cable operator Ziggo is set to launch a new free-to-air sports channel, Ziggo Sport, on November 12th. The channel will focus on major sporting events feature talk-shows, sports-related films and documentaries. The channel will offer a broad range of international and national sports, including football, motor racing, tennis, golf, basketball, hockey, rugby, volleyball and […]
Australian quad-play operator Optus has won the bid for the exclusive Australian rights to the Barclays Premier League for three seasons, commencing in August 2016. This includes live broadcast coverage and digital rights for broadband and mobile for all 380 Premier League games, every season. The rights were previously held by Fox. Allen Lew, Chief […]
Telestream, a provider of video transcoding and workflow automation solutions, has announced the acquisition of Cloud-based encoding provider, PandaStream. The result of a comprehensive investigation of key suppliers in the cloud-based encoding market, the acquisition accelerates Telestream’s strategy for providing cloud services to complement its on-premise solutions. As a direct result of this acquisition, Telestream […]
NBCUniversal has further expanded its TV Everywhere offering on the new Apple TV with the launch of four new apps from the NBCUniversal portfolio: NBC, USA Now, NBC Sports Live Extra and CNBC. Users for the new Apple TV can access content from these networks on demand, as well as live programming from NBC Sports […]
Deutsche Telekom has acquired National Basketball Association (NBA) broadcasting rights for the 2015/16 and 2016/17 seasons and air 45 live matches per season. The NBA games will be broadcast each Sunday via the TV offering Entertain as well as online via the Telekom basketball portal – a new service that also includes highlights as well […]
Liberty Global is partnering with renowned technology accelerator Techstars to launch Virgin Media Accelerator powered by Techstars, a new programme to support innovative digital start-ups. Virgin Media Accelerator is a three-month mentoring programme supporting companies working on innovative ideas relating to the digital world. The launch of this initiative further extends Liberty Global’s support of […]
Hot on the heels of revealing strong third quarter results, giant screen specialist IMAX Corporation has entered into a long-term, multi-picture agreement with Twentieth Century Fox, a division of 21st Century Fox. Marking the two companies’ first joint multi-picture agreement, the deal includes future tentpoles from the Fox slate, including Deadpool, Independence Day Resurgence, Maze […]
SPI International/Filmbox have announced a new agreement with Disney, securing first-run movie content that will play on FilmBox channels in Central Eastern Europe. ABC Studios’ American Crime television series is one of the 2015 titles included in a content package acquired recently by SPI International’s Kino Polska TV from Disney for the global pay-TV operator’s […]