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La Liga scores €2.65bn TV deal

Spain’s top flight football league La Liga has agreed a domestic television deal worth €2.65 billion. Including international rights deals struck in the summer, La Liga’s overall television revenue has risen from €800 million a season to nearly €1.5 billion a season. Telefónica subsidiary Movistar will have first choice of one match from each round […]

December 3, 2015By Colin Mann

Snoopy touts Moments Worth Paying For

Snoopy and Charlie Brown are championing the value of the big screen experience and enjoying all those great moments worth paying for with their friends, all in support of pro-copyright consumer education body the Industry Trust for IP Awareness’s successful Moments Worth Paying For campaign. The exclusive Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie trailer […]

December 3, 2015By Colin Mann

Freesat adds UKTV channels

Cable and satellite programmer UKTV is launching three channels on subscription-free satellite TV platform Freesat, marking the next step in its platform growth strategy. Yesterday, Drama and Really will be available to users of the service. “We work hard to secure platform deals that give more people our channels, and ultimately grow UKTV’s footprint,” said […]

December 3, 2015

Vibrant TV acquires Antiques Road Trip

Vibrant TV has acquired the television series Antiques Road Trip from distributor Red Arrow International. Vibrant TV will debut the international reality series on its 24/7 programming service that reaches a national viewing audience via a growing roster of carriage partners including Roku, Amazon Fire, Channel Master, Klowd TV, FilmOn, Yip TV, among others. “We […]

December 3, 2015

Hackers selling lifetime Netflix, HBO subscriptions

Hackers are selling lifetime access to premium VoD subscriptions for as little as $0.50. A report by McAfee Labs revealed it is possible to buy access to “many online streaming entertainment” services, like Netflix and Spotify, in ‘Dark Web’ marketplaces. These marketplaces can be accessed only by using a special internet browser called TOR that […]

December 2, 2015

Movistar Plus drops Canal Plus and launches #0

Movistar Plus is to launch #0, a new channel that will replace Canal Plus with programming featuring TV series, sports (Formula 1, Moto GP, football and tennis) and in-house entertainment programmes. The channel, set to be up and running by the beginning of next year, will mostly rely on in-house programmes to draw the audiences […]

December 2, 2015From David Del Valle in Madrid

Qatar: Ooredoo turns to Metrological

Ooredoo has selected the Metrological Application Platform to launch and manage its cloud-based Mozaic TV app store. The Ooredoo-branded TV app store will go live on Ooredoo’s next generation STBs in Qatar. Ooredoo’s Next Generation Mozaic TV is the leading TV entertainment service in Qatar, combining international, Arabic and Asian satellite packages, catch-up and premium-on-demand […]

December 2, 2015

PEMRA: 2.5m illegal DTH users in Pakistan

December 7th will see Pakistan’s media regulator, PEMRA, issue 3 new DTH licences in an attempt to help curb the huge number of “illegal” viewers in the nation who access forbidden Indian transmissions. “We have raided, seized and destroyed 2,500 DTH [dishes and receivers] in Islamabad and Lahore,” said Fakharuddin Mughal, Pemra’s spokesman. “We are […]

December 1, 2015By Chris Forrester

Ash vs Evil Dead exclusive for Virgin Media

In a deal that marks a first such foray into exclusive programming, UK quad-play operator Virgin Media has brought cult US TV show and highly anticipated Starz Original series – Ash vs Evil Dead – to the UK, exclusively for its TV customers to watch on demand. Virgin Media has signed an exclusive licensing deal […]

December 1, 2015By Colin Mann

Vindicia to manage BBC Store payments

Enterprise-class subscription billing specialist Vindicia has confirmed that BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, has chosen Vindicia’s CashBox solution to manage ecommerce on BBC Store, the Corporation’s new direct-to-consumer retail platform that enables audiences to buy and keep copies of their favourite BBC TV programmes. BBC Store will be integrated with the BBC’s […]

December 1, 2015