The FIFA World Cup group stage game between Germany and Spain on November 27th at 8pm CET, attracted 17.05 million viewers, or just under one in two Germans viewers (49.3 per cent), according to PSB channel ZDF, after a disappointing opening game, viewed by fewer than 10 million. The defeat against Japan was played in […]
Mediapro’s recently launched OTT service, Gol Mundial, reached over 300,000 subscribers after just three days of World Cup competition, according to the company.The service, priced at €19.90, has managed to pull in revenues of €6 million, plus €38 million paid by RTVE and other fees from Movistar and La Liga.The service is pulling in an […]
The Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport, Rt Hon Michelle Donelan MP, has officially opened Sky’s new Innovation Centre located on its Osterley campus. Dana Strong, Group CEO, Sky, commented: “I’m delighted to welcome the Secretary of State to open Sky’s new Innovation Centre on our London campus. Sky is part of […]
Police in the North of England investigating a large-scale TV piracy operation have arrested a man on suspicion of fraud and other offences. Officers from the Yorkshire and Humber Regional Organised Crime Unit (YH ROCU), together with South Yorkshire Police, and working in partnership with Sky, executed warrants in the Doncaster and Barnsley areas on […]
Spain’s pay-TV revenues grew by 2.5 per cent to €506.1 million in the second quarter of the year, according to the CNMC. By contrast, FTA TV saw its revenues fall by 7.1 per cent to €403.4 million. In terms of subscriber numbers, pay-TV reached 9.1 million, up 7.7 per cent compared to the same period […]
The High Court of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur has issued what pay-TV operator Astro describes as a “landmark” ruling determining a local commercial premises to have acted illegally by showing pirate broadcasts of sports and entertainment content, including Premier League football. The Directors of 42 East Pub and Restaurant in KL were showing content in their […]
The TV market in Italy is set to contract by 1.1 per cent in 2022, according to the latest report from Rome-based ITMedia Consulting. For its part, the pay-TV segment, which is in a process of reorganisation between traditional pay-TV and VoD, will grow by 4.4 per cent. OTT TV will continue on the path […]
On December 3rd, boxing fans from the UK and Ireland will be able to tune in to the WBC heavyweight world title matchup between Tyson ‘The Gypsy King’ Fury and Derek ‘War’ Chisora, exclusively live on BT Sport Box Office. The third iteration of Fury v Chisora sees Tyson Fury enter the ring, at Tottenham […]
In a surprise move late on November 20th, The Walt Disney Company announced that former CEO Bob Iger is returning to lead Disney as Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Iger, who spent more than four decades at the Company, including 15 years as its CEO, has agreed to serve as Disney’s CEO for two years, […]
On the eve of the FIFA World Cup in Qatar, the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), the coalition dedicated to protecting the dynamic legal ecosystem for creative content, confirmed the successful shutdown of a major sports piracy operation in Morocco. Before they were shut down November 11th, the streaming websites carried live football matches […]