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Alianza tackles LatAm pay-TV piracy

Alianza Contra la Piratería de Televisión Paga (Alianza), the anti-piracy association of the leading companies in the Latin American pay-TV industry, has revealed details of what it says is a complete study to date of on-line video piracy in South America. The report was prepared by UK consulting group NetNames. The study covers nine countries […]

January 22, 2016By Colin Mann

Vubiquity new VoD content deals

Vubiquity, the global technology provider for managing and distributing premium media and entertainment video content, today announced deals to manage VoD content distribution for three growing independent networks – Bright TV, Grokker and Ride TV. Our priority is to bring as much premium content to audiences on every screen,” said Gabriel Berger, EVP, Sales, Vubiquity […]

January 22, 2016

Deloitte: Top 20 football clubs score €6.6bn revenue

The 20 highest earning football clubs in the world generated €6.6 billion of revenue last season, an increase of 8 per cent on the previous year, according to the 19th edition of the Football Money League from Deloitte, the business advisory firm. Real Madrid top the Deloitte Football Money League for the eleventh year in […]

January 21, 2016

Sky, CBS sign Showtime programming deal

Sky and CBS Corporation have announced a long-term licensing agreement for Sky Atlantic to be the exclusive home to Showtime’s growing portfolio of programming across all its territories in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria and Italy.  Previously, Sky has licensed select Showtime content from CBS on a programme by programme basis. The deal will span […]

January 21, 2016

Media business intelligence toolkit from Ericsson

Ericsson has launched powerful business intelligence toolkit for TV and media players which it says enables media industry to aggregate, analyse and act upon large amounts of data. The toolkit – Integrated Video Insights – builds on Ericsson’s TV and media, big data and analytics, and consulting and systems integration portfolios and increases the company’s ability […]

January 21, 2016

ESPNPlayer to deliver 2016 X Games Aspen

ESPNPlayer.com will deliver live and on demand coverage of the 2016 X Games Aspen in the UK and Europe as the world’s top winter sport athletes gather in Buttermilk Mountain, Aspen, Colorado for the 15th time. The 20th edition of the winter games includes snowboard, ski and snowmobile events, with more than 200 competitors including […]

January 21, 2016

Pixit Media to present data intelligent 4K workflow at BVE 2016

At BVE 2016 Pixit Media will demonstrate its software defined storage as a central repository to provide 4K uncompressed playback for a number of leading applications used in the broadcast and post production industries. Google, NetApp, Mellanox, Digital Vision, The Foundry and Adobe will be amongst the companies demonstrating their latest technologies through the efficient […]

January 21, 2016

TRACE goes live on Digicel Play in Caribbean

Urban entertainment and global media group, TRACE, has signed an agreement with total communications and entertainment provider, Digicel, making TRACE Urban, the first international urban music channel, and TRACE Sport Stars, the sport celebrity channel available on Digicel Play, its fibre TV service in Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago. This deal sees TRACE Urban and […]

January 21, 2016

BBC extends snooker rights

The BBC has agreed a new deal which will see it continue to screen the biggest events in snooker – the World Championship, UK Championship and The Masters – until 2019. Despite the corporation currently undergoing a series of cost-cutting measures, it still paid out around £6.5 million (€8.4m) for the rights according to reports.

January 20, 2016

Moore to head BBC TV, iPlayer

A reorganisation designed to offer a simplified and more co-ordinated strategy across BBC Television’s channel portfolio has seen Charlotte Moore appointed Controller, TV Channels and iPlayer. In the newly created role, Moore – currently Controller of BBC One – will become the creative, editorial and strategic lead for BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Four and […]

January 19, 2016