Lagardère Active TV and DreamWorks Animation (DWA) have agreed a carriage deal which gives Lagardère free-to-air and basic pay-tv rights for its family and kids channels to broadcast DreamWorks Animation’s television series, including Dragons: Race to the Edge, The Adventures of Puss in Boots, All Hail King Julien, Turbo FAST, The Mr. Peabody & Sherman […]
The Pirate Bay, the infamous file-sharing torrent service, has added a browser plug-in that now allows lets users stream content directly from the website – meaning there’s no need to download the file through a program such as BitTorrent. The Swedish website has made the change by introducing support for TorrentTime, a browser plug-in that […]
Content protection and data-analytics solutions specialist MUSO has revealed what it describes as a major new addition to its range of market analytics and audience connection products with the launch of Retune, developed to help rights owners market their content directly to piracy audiences, and enable those audiences to reconnect to licensed content. According to […]
AMC Networks and Canalsat have signed an agreement to launch Sundance Channel Global on Canalsat’s satellite, ADSL, and IPTV platforms in France. Sundance Channel, which broadcasts exclusive independent feature films and documentaries as well as original drama series, will launch on February 9th as part of Canalsat’s Series and Cinema package as a 24/7 linear […]
Eurosport and Dorna WorldSBK Organisation have confirmed the early extension of their long-term rights agreement for the 2017, 2018 and 2019 seasons. The announcement comes as Eurosport prepares to fuel the passion of motorsports fans throughout the 2016 WorldSBK season, starting February 26th. The renewal will see the MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship, including its […]
CSI Sports, a provider of televised fighting content, has signed a multi-year carriage agreement for its new 24/7 HD Network Fight Sports in France with pay-TV operator Bouygues Telecom. This launch continues Fight Sports in Network’s rapid global expansion and follows a recent extension of their carriage agreement with Orange in France. Fight Sports in […]
Gary Davey, Managing Director, Content, Sky, has suggested that going forward, the pan-European broadcaster will focus increasingly on entertainment, declaring that done properly, the genre could be just as engaging as football, a mainstay of Sky’s UK business and an important component of its German and Italian operations. In a Royal Television Society ‘In conversation […]
Virtual reality is still very much in the ‘innovation’ stage, but this will start to change over the coming months as a variety of major first generation headsets hit the market, according to findings in a report – Virtual Reality – Niche or Mass Market? – from Futuresource Consulting. Some of the world’s largest and […]
YouTube has confirmed that it will premiere the first of its YouTube Red Originals on February 10. Writing in the YouTube blog, Susanne Daniels, Global Head of Original Content, says that in addition to getting all of YouTube uninterrupted and a premium YouTube Music experience, a YouTube Red membership will now give users exclusive access […]
Richard Lindsay-Davies, Chief Executive of the DTG, has suggested the digital media technology innovation collaboration centre will consider the standardisation of Virtual Reality (VR). Having recently returned from consumer technology show CES in Las Vegas, where he observed the emergence of VR, Lindsay-Davies told delegates at a Westminster Media Forum Keynote Seminar on TV Convergence […]