ESPN Player will bring subscribers its biggest ever season of college football coverage ahead of kick-off this weekend. The streaming service will bring full coverage of the 2019 NCAA College Football season to fans in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Asian countries including Japan and Singapore anytime, anywhere. Viewers will have the […]
YouTube is in the process of remedying a site error after its algorithm falsely identified personal videos of robot battles – similar to the likes of those seen in BBC show Robot Wars – as ‘animal cruelty’ and ‘cock fighting’. Channels posting robot combat videos saw their content removed and received a notice from YouTube […]
Organisers of the Rugby World Cup 2019 in Japan have suggested that Asia’s first tournament will set new standards in rugby broadcast production, providing a record global footprint and attracting new fans and showcasing the sport in higher quality than ever before, with 8K coverage being offered to the Japanese domestic market via NHK, and […]
The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) – a global coalition dedicated to protecting the dynamic legal market and reducing online piracy – has obtained a permanent injunction from the Federal Court in Canada against Vader Streams, a major purveyor of unauthorised film and television content. ACE achieved full suspension of Vader Streams’ operations, and […]
Sky Deutschland’s offering for the Bundesliga and the DFB-Pokal is now available live and on a pay-per-view basis in Germany via the app of the football media platform, Onefootball. This weekend, football fans can follow Sky Deutschland’s live broadcasts of the 2. Bundesliga, starting at €3.99 per match, directly in the Onefootball app. The distribution […]
The National Football League (NFL) and Pluto TV, the free streaming television service in the US, have announced the launch of a new channel celebrating the NFL’s iconic and classic moments spanning over a decade of past seasons. The NFL Channel provided by Pluto TV is a specially curated feed of iconic library content devoted to […]
In July 2019, investigators from UK intellectual property protection organisation FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft) and UK law enforcement agencies attended sixteen premises across the UK serving Cease and Desist notices to individuals suspected of supplying illegal sports streaming content. The initiative was a collaboration between the Premier League and FACT aimed at preventing the […]
AC Milan, the Italian top flight football team, has released a new mobile app exclusively on the iOS platform. The app offered free live stream of a friendly match at launch this pask weekend, as the team beat Cesena by 3 goals to nil. Available for free in Italian and English, the App offers an […]
The Walt Disney Company has confirmed global launch dates and pricing for Disney+ in Canada, The Netherlands, Australia, and New Zealand, and announced it has reached global agreements with nearly all the major platforms to distribute the Disney+ app across partner mobile and connected TV devices. Disney+ will offer what the company calls ‘unparalleled content […]
Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) and ACCESS have announced a partnership to make Viacom’s global TV brands accessible to vehicle passengers via ACCESS Twine for Car (Twine4Car) in Germany. Under the terms of deal, ACCESS is acquiring the rights to make linear feeds of MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon available in German-language for integration into […]