In common with other major UK ISPs, Sky is supporting the government-backed Get It Right from a Genuine Site initiative which aims to support Britain’s creative industry by informing people about legal sources of content, with the aim of reducing the illegal sharing of copyrighted material. It advises users that if they have any questions […]
UK quad-play operator Virgin Media is bolstering its TV programming with another US TV drama from DirecTV – Full Circle. The three-series box set is exclusive to Virgin TV customers and comprises of 30 episodes in total. The first series is available to watch on demand on Virgin TV now, with the second and third […]
BBC Radio 5 live has signed former England cricket captain Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff to host a new podcast as the station launches a series of podcast-first programmes. Flintoff is teaming up with former Premier League footballer and BBC Radio 5 live regular Robbie Savage to host a new weekly podcast starting on Monday 13 February. […]
It has been an impressive year for UK television exports, according to the latest UK Television Exports Report, with sales to international markets in 2015/16 rising to £1.326 billion (€1.544bn), a 10 per cent increase from £1.205 billion in 2014/15. The report also shows a sizeable increase in activity in the Chinese market, which is […]
Italian public broadcaster RAI and telecommunications operator TIM have signed a strategic movie distribution agreement. The deal will provide subscribers to VoD platform TIMvision with access to movie premieres of all 20 films released by Rai Cinema/01 on cinema screens in recent months. The movie deal will kick off with Giuseppe Tornatore’s La corrispondenza and […]
Digi-Capital’s Augmented/Virtual Reality Report and deals database recorded VCs and corporate investors pouring $2.3 billion (€2.1bn) into VR/AR startups last year, or over 3 times the $700+ million invested in 2015. 300 per cent investment growth in 12 months is impressive in any sector, let alone such an early stage market. AR hardware player Magic […]
Mediapro and La Liga have agreed a deal to stream the semi-finals of La Copa Del Rey (King’s Cup) on Facebook to 40 countries (among them the UK, Ireland, Italy, Belgium, Russia, most of the countries in the Middle East, China or Australia). The Mediapro streaming signal, through Gol, will be the first Spanish TV […]
Digital payments platform PayPal has released the second wave of its Digital Goods Economy Survey, which looks at the attitudes, habits, and behaviours of the digital media consumer across the digital video (including Movie/TV series) and digital music industries. These findings complement
Portugese pay-TV platform Meo has acquired the exclusive broadcast rights to show NBA action in the country. A new channel, branded NBA TV, will offer live games from the NBA, the Women’s NBA and NBA D-League championships, as well as specials, documentaries and sports desk programming dedicated to the sport. NBA TV will also be […]
Facebook’s VR business Oculus has been ordered by a court to pay $500 million (€462.4m) to video game maker ZeniMax. The verdict, in a Texas district court, ruled that Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey had failed to comply with a non-disclosure agreement signed with ZeniMax in 2012. Nonetheless, the jury decided that Oculus had not misappropriated […]