Conax, a Kudelski Group company and specialists in total service protection for pay-TV and digital entertainment services, has announced a collaboration with Nordic DTH operator Canal Digital to secure their new Android TV-based entertainment service, OnePlace. OnePlace is now available to Canal Digital’s DTH customers across their Nordic footprint. The OnePlace set-top box will deliver […]
Global TV sports producer and distributor Sunset+Vine has been confirmed as the exclusive television production partner for Badminton England for the next four years. Sunset+Vine will host broadcast the YONEX All England Open Badminton Championships, until 2021. The new deal follows 17 years of a successful partnership with Badminton England which first saw Sunset+Vine host […]
Following confirmation by France’s Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (CSA) and the country’s Culture Minister that the distribution of free-to-air channels should remain free, and that only additional services such as replay and start over could be ‘paid for’, Canal+ Group has decided gradually to resume distribution of the TF1 Group’s free channels. Subscribers to Canal […]
The first episode of crime drama McMafia was streamed 3.4 million times, and three other episodes of the series that aired later in the month also feature in the top ten most-popular BBC iPlayer programmes in January. The first month of the New Year was also the best month on record for BBC iPlayer, building […]
For those age 14 to 21, e-sports are about as big as [American] football, according to results of a UMass Lowell-Washington Post poll. Forty per cent of that age group said they are football fans while 38 per cent count themselves among fans of eSports. “The popularity of eSports and online gaming among
French production group Lagardère Studios has taken a majority stake in Dutch TV production company Skyhigh TV. The move follows the acquisition of Boomerang TV in Spain and Aito Media Group in Finland respectively in 2015 and 2017. Created in 1999, Skyhigh TV is owned by founder Marc Dik, Wilfred Drechsler and Bernard van den […]
Hot on the heels of announcing an enhanced co-operation with YouTube, Major League Baseball and Facebook have unveiled a newly expanded partnership for the 2018 MLB season, highlighted by what they describe as an historic agreement to produce and broadcast one game every week to a global audience on Facebook. This 25-game package of weekly […]
BT Sport has renewed its exclusive rights to broadcast the Vanarama National League for a further three years, until 2021. BT Sport has been broadcasting live and exclusive coverage of English football’s fifth tier since its launch in August 2013. The new deal will see typically one match broadcast live each match-week, normally in a […]
Edgy TV, a multicultural TV channel from Canadian online magazine Edwige, is the latest addition to the Freeview platform (channel 264) that has a reach of over 10 million UK TV households. The channel celebrates an exciting blend of fashion and different cultures to enrich the lives of professional women from 20 to 55 years […]
SPI International / FilmBox, a global media company, has signed a multi-year agreement with MEASAT Satellite Systems to distribute six 24 hour TV channels including one Ultra HD channel across the Asia Pacific region. SPI International gains access to MEASAT’s 91.5°E hotslot with an established video neighborhood and strong affiliate base across wide geography comprising […]