The BBC has made a two-year deal to broadcast NFL matches, including the 50th Super Bowl in 2016. The deal, winning back the rights it lost to Channel 4 in 2013, includes live games and highlights coverage across TV, radio and online. In recent months BBC has lost most Six Nations rugby to ITV, Open […]
The BBC’s Director General Tony Hall has confessed it is “inevitable” that services will have to be cut with BBC4, rolling news services and children’s television channels all identified as possible recipients for the axe – but still insisted that the corporation’s “best days lie ahead”. In his first response to the government’s funding deal […]
Broadcast specialist Vision247 has confirmed the availability of its Connected Free to air services via EE TV’s set-top boxes in the UK. Vision247’s OTT services are operated by Synapse TV and currently include VisionTV with more to be launched over the coming months. The EE TV platform is developed and operated by Netgem, who have […]
Consumer research from Leichtman Research Group (LRG) finds that about 83 per cent of all households nationwide subscribe to some form of pay-TV service. The percentage of households that subscribe to a pay-TV service is down from 87 per cent in 2010, but up from 81 per cent in 2005. While the total number of […]
UK subscription-free TV service Freeview and Digital UK – the company that manages the development and strategy of DTT and supports viewers – have confirmed that the new Freeview Play connected TV service, the next generation of the UK’s biggest TV platform, will launch in October. Panasonic televisions will be the first to introduce the […]
Fox International Channels UK has confirmed it will launch its first Free-To-Air entertainment channel, YourTV, on a variety of UK platforms on October 1st. YourTV will provide viewers with “real-life stories, irresistible experiences and thrilling tales”. The channel will air for 20 hours each day across the UK, from 7am until 3am. Primarily aimed at […]
Dutch cable company Ziggo plans to launch a free sports channel before the end of the year according to Dutch daily Algemeen Dagblad. The channel, a collaboration with broadcaster Sport 1, will include Champions League football, European championship qualifiers, golf, rugby and Formula 1 racing. The move has been made possible by Ziggo’s takeover by […]
Arqiva has announced the launch of a new hybrid IPTV channel on the Freeview platform. ABN TV, the African-Caribbean family entertainment channel, will provide content 24 hours a day to audiences with internet-enabled Freeview devices. Tom Cape, Director of Connected Solutions at Arqiva said, “Audiences have for some time now embraced the seamless cross-over of […]
Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset has announced it will fully encrypt its free-to-air satellite channels on satellite. Until now, Mediaset’s flagship channels Canale 5, Italia and Rete 4 were available in the clear for viewers in Italy and Europe, via the Eutelsat 13 degrees East orbital position. The only exception were live sports events and some […]
AMC Global, the international AMC-branded television network, and BT have revealed a wide array of TV series and movies to premiere on AMC from BT TV with the channel’s launch in the UK on August 28th. From launch, AMC will be the exclusive home of this summer’s most anticipated new series, Fear the Walking Dead, […]