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MENA: Warner Bros content for beIN

beIN and Warner Bros have announced a long-term multi-year deal that will enable beIN to acquire premium content from the leading Hollywood studio. Starting later this year, beIN will have access to such hit series as Arrow, Gotham and Originals, and will acquire the exclusive 2nd pay window rights to Warner Bros theatrical features. From […]

October 18, 2016

Telemundo content exclusive to Netflix

Telemundo and Netflix have announced that the newest ‘Super Series’ from Telemundo including El Chema, Sin Senos Sí Hay Paraíso and Guerra de Ídolos, among others, will premiere exclusively on Netflix in Latin America, including Mexico and Brazil, and will also be available exclusively in Spain and in the US The extension of the deal […]

October 18, 2016

OSN extends 20th Century Fox deal

MENA pay-TV network OSN has signed a new extended partnership with 20th Century Fox Television Distribution to bring the latest Hollywood blockbusters and TV series to the region. As part of the deal, the latest movies from 20th Century Fox will be available for OSN subscribers just months after release in the cinema. The deal […]

October 18, 2016

AMC launching Eva+ in Africa

AMC Networks International will launch telenovela channel Eva+ in Africa, a sister channel to Eva that first aired in spring 2015. Eva+ will begin broadcasting on November1st  on MultiChoice’s digital pay TV satellite platform DStv, and will also be available on DTT platform GOtv. Eva+ will offer high production value Latin American telenovelas fully dubbed […]

October 18, 2016

Fox confirms Walking Dead season 8

Fox, the exclusive international home of The Walking Dead, has announced the return of the series to Fox channels internationally following AMC’s Season 8 renewal. Season 8 will premiere in 2017 and will kick off with the 100th episode of the series. Fox partnered with AMC on the series at script level and launched the […]

October 18, 2016

Scripps commissions original Travel Channel content

Scripps Networks Interactive has announced two new original commissions, Olly Smith: Ale Trails and Take Me Home for Travel Channel, the premier global travel broadcaster, in association with Brand USA. Both series will premiere in December across UK & EMEA. “We are delighted to once again be partnering with Brand USA on these two compelling […]

October 18, 2016

NHK News ‘4K is a transport challenge’

Masashi Yoshino of NHK News talks about the rewards of shooting news in 4K UHD but also the challenges of transporting data at a rate that can be 6x real time. [bitsontherun BLjBxB2s-hLYU43gg]

October 18, 2016

Auditorium Films: choose your UHD subject carefully

Reza Ackbaraly CEO of Auditorium Films tells about capturing concerts in 4K UHD, the challenges in workflow, and how choosing the right subject matter is the key to making UHD really work for the broadcaster and viewer. [bitsontherun jnIgRxrK-hLYU43gg]

October 17, 2016

Report: OTT outspending most linear broadcasters

Between 2013 and 2015, Netflix and Amazon more than doubled their annual expenditure on programming. In 2013, Amazon spent $1.22 billion; that jumped to $2.67 billion in 2015. In the same timeframe, Netflix spending rose from $2.38 billion to $4.91 billion, according to the findings from World TV Production Report 2016, a forthcoming study by […]

October 17, 2016

Sony CEO: Technology boosts storytelling and distribution

Sony’s position at the intersection of creativity and storytelling, as well as the passion of its staff, ideally position it to deliver create and deliver compelling content in the modern multi-platform, multi-device era, according to Kazuo Hirai, President and CEO, Sony Corporation. Delivering a Media Mastermind Keynote at MIPCOM in Cannes, Hirai said that he […]

October 17, 2016Colin Mann @ MIPCOM