Australian quad-play operator Optus has won the bid for the exclusive Australian rights to the Barclays Premier League for three seasons, commencing in August 2016. This includes live broadcast coverage and digital rights for broadband and mobile for all 380 Premier League games, every season. The rights were previously held by Fox. Allen Lew, Chief […]
NBCUniversal has further expanded its TV Everywhere offering on the new Apple TV with the launch of four new apps from the NBCUniversal portfolio: NBC, USA Now, NBC Sports Live Extra and CNBC. Users for the new Apple TV can access content from these networks on demand, as well as live programming from NBC Sports […]
Deutsche Telekom has acquired National Basketball Association (NBA) broadcasting rights for the 2015/16 and 2016/17 seasons and air 45 live matches per season. The NBA games will be broadcast each Sunday via the TV offering Entertain as well as online via the Telekom basketball portal – a new service that also includes highlights as well […]
Hot on the heels of revealing strong third quarter results, giant screen specialist IMAX Corporation has entered into a long-term, multi-picture agreement with Twentieth Century Fox, a division of 21st Century Fox. Marking the two companies’ first joint multi-picture agreement, the deal includes future tentpoles from the Fox slate, including Deadpool, Independence Day Resurgence, Maze […]
SPI International/Filmbox have announced a new agreement with Disney, securing first-run movie content that will play on FilmBox channels in Central Eastern Europe. ABC Studios’ American Crime television series is one of the 2015 titles included in a content package acquired recently by SPI International’s Kino Polska TV from Disney for the global pay-TV operator’s […]
The Weather Network, an industry leader in multi-platform weather services announced today that its weather application is now available on Apple TV, offering users quick and easy access to localised weather forecasts and personalised content. “The Weather Network team is dedicated to providing users with the most compelling experience possible, and Apple has helped us […]
Netflix has given Paramount TV’s 13 Reasons Why, executive produced by Selena Gomez, a straight-to-series order. The show, based on the New York Times bestselling YA book by Jay Asher, was created by Pulitzer Prize winner Brian Yorkey, who also wrote the pilot. 13 Reasons Why is the second Netflix straight to order series for […]
Nova, the largest pay-TV platform in Greece, has partnered with Fox International Channels to provide an unprecedented range of international sporting events and sports programming to all Nova 3Play subscribers. Fox Sports HD, available for the first time in Greece, is available effective immediately on channel 314 of Nova’s bouquet. Programming will include: · NFL (from […]
UPC Broadband Slovakia has extended the FilmBox Premium HD pack with three new thematic HD channels from the SPI International/FilmBox portfolio. The FilmBox Premium HD pack features Fast’nFunBox HD, DocuBox HD and EroXXX HD in addition to the current channel line-up containing FilmBox Premium, FilmBox Family, FilmBox Plus, FilmBox Extra HD and FightBox HD, raising […]
Marcus Arthur, the BBC executive in charge of BBC Store, has confirmed that the download-to-own (DTO) service will launch in November. Speaking at the PEVE Entertainment Business Futures 2015 Conference in London, Arthur, Director BBC Store as well as President, BBC Worldwide UK and ANZ, was unwilling to divulge an exact date in advance of […]