Sky’s Group CEO Jeremy Darroch has said that while sport remains a key part of its broadcast portfolio, the content rights aren’t as important as they once were. Speaking at a Morgan Stanley investor conference in Barcelona, Darroch said: “Sport is very important, obviously football is very important, but relatively, every day it is less […]
The English Premier League has sold its television rights in China for about £564 million (€660m), marking its biggest-ever overseas sale. Online video streaming service PPTV, a media division of China’s Suning retail group which also owns Italian football club Inter Milan has agreed a three-year deal from the 2019-20 season. The deal is said […]
In a move that it says creates a TV Anywhere home for performance motoring and motorsport, Motorsport Network has acquired Motors TV, consolidating the world’s largest automotive and motorsport digital technology business with a global broadcast operation. The acquisition of the broadcaster that reaches more than 30 million homes with 130 rights agreements and 700 […]
AOL has released a research study exploring UK consumer viewing attitudes for short form digital video, finding that it has now become the primary news source for younger audiences. More than half (52 per cent) of 18-24 year olds said that they prefer getting their news from short form videos than reading it. The research […]
The Wimbledon tennis tournament will remain on the BBC for at least another eight years. The All England Club and the BBC have confirmed a four-year extension to their partnership, taking the deal up to 2024. The alliance, which in 2017 celebrates 80 years of television and 90 years of radio, is the longest in […]
YouTube has launched its free dedicated kids’ app in France, allowing videos to be filtered and parents to gain control on their children’s viewing. Accessible on both iOS and Android devices, this app was first launched in February 2015 in the US before rolling out globally. It is now present in 24 countries. The app […]
Following successful prosecutions by intellectual property protection body FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft) the Designated Premises Supervisors of the Miners Arms and The Old Crooked Clock, in the Northern UK city of Leeds have each been convicted and ordered to pay a combined total of more than £8,500 (€9,864) in fines and costs for showing […]
Amazon Prime has confirmed the launch time for The Grand Tour, the new Amazon Prime Video show from Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May. The show will launch at 00:01 GMT on November 18th, with new episodes released weekly for 12 weeks. Amazon Prime members can watch The Grand Tour via the Amazon Video […]
WWE and Sky Deutschland have announced a new multi-year agreement to distribute WWE’s pay-per-view events starting this Monday with Survivor Series and televise WWE’s flagship programmes Raw and SmackDown live on Sky Sports beginning April 2017. “We are very happy about WWE coming back to Sky Deutschland,” said Dr. Malte Probst, Senior Vice President Programming […]
CSI Sports, a provider of televised fight content, has signed a new distribution agreement for its Fight Sports network with Dazn the on demand sports streaming service in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Japan. “We are excited to be expanding Fight Sports’ reach with DAZN’s pioneering digital service alongside some of the world’s most prestigious sports […]