Sky and Discovery are said to be close to agreeing a last-gasp deal to keep the likes of Eurosport and Animal Planet on Sky’s pay-TV platform and NOW TV OTT service – following their well-publicised spat. Both companies are said to have agreed to halt publicly confrontational messages, and there is renewed hope a deal […]
Eurosport’s exclusive coverage of the Australian Open peaked at 800,000 in the UK – as Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal went head to head for the first Grand Slam title of the year. It was the highest UK audience ever for the tournament on Eurosport without a British national playing. As audience peaked for the […]
Streaming device specialist Roku is to make coverage of the forthcoming American football Super Bowl available for free. Writing in the Roku Blog, Melissa Morell, Senior Manager, Social Media, says it is “an exciting time” to be a Roku customer and sports fan, advising users that they can stream the Super Bowl for free. Streamers […]
Research from Snell Advanced Media (SAM) shows the majority of businesses across Europe (64 per cent) and North America (56 per cent) are looking to start IP production projects in the next 9 months; driven by wanting more flexibility and reduced costs through adopting open standards (47 per cent). However, 71 per cent of European […]
Lego has launched a social network exclusively for under-13s on a new app branded Lego Life. The app lets children post photos of their Lego creations and comment on others – but with strict restrictions on how they can interact with fellow users. Text comments aren’t allowed but users can either use prewritten responses or […]
StratusCore, a content production technology company, has announced the general availability of its cloud-based digital content production platform and suite of tools for the digital content industry. Film, television, gaming, advertising, virtual reality and other industries developing content for digital mediums can leverage StratusCore’s offering of on-demand tools, services and community resources that eliminate the […]
Global TV operator SPI International / FilmBox Channels Group will launch nine networks on a new IPTV service, operated by K3 Telecom in Liberia. The channels include film network FilmBox Africa, world cinema channel FilmBox Art House, sports-skewing duo FightBox HD and Fast&FunBox HD and factual network DocuBox HD, which explores nature, science, culture and […]
Ownzones Media Network (OMN), a global provider of technology and media solutions, has announced the launch of Zypline, a proprietary media asset management and distribution platform for the OTT market. With its distribution workflow vetted by top OTT and cable providers worldwide, Zypline simplifies and automates the process of optimising and delivering content to the […]
Sky has hit back in its carriage dispute with Discovery, which threatens to see the removal of 12 of the programmer’s channels from its pay-TV and NOW TV services, accusing it of “misleading claims and aggressive actions”. In a Statement posted on its website, Sky says it has worked “really hard” for more than a […]
A scheme introduced in 2013 by US content creators in the movie and music industries and leading IPSs in which consumers received ‘copyright alerts’ when they viewed peer-to-peer pirated content is to cease. The February 2013 implementation of the Copyright Alert System (CAS) scheme marked the culmination of many months of work on the collaborative […]