A man from the UK East Midlands city of Leicester has been handed a 32-month jail sentence after a joint investigation by the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) and Leicestershire Police discovered he was selling hundreds of illegal TV set-top boxes from an online marketplace. Between February 2012 and February 2015, Mark Brighty imported hundreds […]
The British Video Association (BVA) and the pro-copyright consumer education body the Industry Trust for IP Awareness have launched The Guide to Screen Entertainment, an online guide designed to equip consumers with the knowledge they need to navigate new and emerging entertainment formats with confidence. Created as a direct response to insight from recent BVA […]
Bell Media has signed a deal to become the exclusive Canadian home of all HBO programming on all subscription platforms into the next decade. Under the long-term agreement, the first of its kind for HBO in Canada, Bell Media will have the ability to deliver current-season, past-season, and library HBO programming exclusively on its linear, […]
Honyee Media’s Chinese version of BBC’s Top Gear has taken the world’s most populous country by storm, with the first 5 episodes of the second season accumulating a combined audience of 217 million across TV and online. The show, which launched on Shanghai Dragon TV on October 19th, was the number one programme in its […]
Nearly 9 out of 10 US pay-TV subscribers (86 per cent) want a single app for all of their video watching, according to data from Altman Vilandrie & Company’s sixth annual survey on consumer video habits. The survey also revealed that 70 per cent of consumers have not downloaded any network or cable channel apps, […]
Spain’s Veo TV, owned by Unidad Editorial and Discovery Communications, is reportedly negotiating the rent of a DTT licence, now used by the channel 13TV, to launch a new channel from the Discovery family targeting a female audience. Following the awarding of a national DTT licence to 13TV, this will free up the current channel […]
Sky News has delivered its first Virtual Reality (VR) news report, entitled Migrants Crisis – The Whole Picture. The report takes viewers to the front line of Europe’s migration crisis in Greece enabling them to see for themselves what is happening there. Made in collaboration with Jaunt, the report was filmed using their new Jaunt […]
Star Channel has agreed a new exclusive content deal with HBO. That will see the channel will become the exclusive television home of HBO titles in japan, including the new season of Game of Thrones. “At the re-branded Star Channel, we are committed to providing more than just content, but to offering value added services […]
Major League Soccer (MLS) has partnered with global pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports in Africa to televise league matches live across Sub-Saharan Africa. With this deal, MLS is now distributed in nearly 140 countries and territories around the world. With the addition of Sub-Saharan Africa, the FOX Sports partnership now extends beyond the US, Mexico, the […]
YouTube has launched its YouTube Kids app in the UK and Ireland, nine months after ithe service went live in the US whre it ahs been downloaded over 10 million times. The app provides a filtered selection of videos and channels that are suitable for children and also removes social features like the comments section […]