Jeff Kupsky is standing down from his president/EMEA role at Turner Broadcasting System, after some 31 years with the broadcasting giant. Reports suggest that his decision to retire pre-dated the appointment of former RTL CEO Gerhard Zeiler to president of TBS International last month. Kupsky has been with TBS since 1981, and has been president […]
UEFA has announced the award of media rights for the 2012–15 UEFA Europa League in Belgium to RTL, VRT and Telenet. Free-to-air broadcaster RTL has won the French-language rights to the best match in each kick-off slot every match-week. RTL will show both live matches as well as a highlights programme each match-week on Club […]
blinkx, the advanced video search engine, has formed a partnership with sports media group Perform, owner of one of the largest digital sports rights portfolios in the world. This partnership will give blinkx users access to a wide array of original and high-quality college sports content, allowing fans to keep up with plays and players […]
Sony has confirmed a number of Michael Jackson tracks have been stolen after its website was hacked. In 2010 Sony Music paid $250 million to the late singer’s estate for a seven-year deal for the rights to his remaining songs. The singer, who died in June 2009 at the age of 50, had recorded unreleased […]
STV and ITV have reached a deal over which should mean some missing favourites returning to Scottish screens. For three years, the Scottish station has dropped some major ITV1 programmes including several dramas. If regulator Ofcom backs the plan, STV will pay a fixed amount for the whole network schedule regardless of how many programmes […]
Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) and Spanish media group Vocento have reached an agreement to launch in April Paramount Channel on Spain’s DTT platform as an FTA channel on frequency previously used by the former TV channel La 10. Paramount Channel will offer movies from the archives of Paramount Pictures with genres including drama, comedy, action, […]
Latino broadcasting giant TV Globo says it has secured the exclusive TV rights for the FIFA World Cup for Brazil. The rights, which cover the Russia and Qatari events, include pay-TV, free-to-air, web and cellular distribution. However, there may be legal action ahead from arch-rival TV Record, which has the 2014 ‘rights’ and has now […]
AMC/Sundance Channel Global, AMC Networks’ international division, and Liberty Global have announced several new deals with Liberty Global affiliates across Europe. These deals follow fast on the heels of the announcement made earlier this month that Sundance Channel will be launching in the Netherlands in March in partnership with Film1, Benelux’s leading film channel bouquet, […]
ActiveVideo Networks, creators of CloudTV, the cloud-based app platform for television, will show how a television app platform based entirely in the network cloud can enable unparalleled service velocity of next-generation navigation and other services at the Cable Congress March 7-9. During the three-day event at The Square in Brussels, ActiveVideo will demonstrate how its […]
A Canadian media conference has been told that piracy is a good thing as illegal downloading secures indie producers more business and markets for their product. “We’re really coming to a place right now where piracy and file sharing is actually doing what it’s supposed to do: It’s showing new markets, it’s taking the content […]