To coincide with the beginning of the school holidays, dozens of popular children’s shows including SpongeBob SquarePants, Ben10 and Regular Show are now available to watch on-demand on Sky Go on smartphones and mobile tablets. On-demand content from eight children’s channels, including Cartoon Network, the Disney Channel and Nickelodeon, is now available through the app, […]
NBC has confirmed that is to repeat its exercise of offering full-episode, pre-sampling versions of its new fall (autumn) series prior to the network time-period premières as each new primetime programme will receive a digital sampling window for marketing and promotional purposes over multiple platforms leading into the regular series première As NBC takes advantage […]
Several UK Internet service providers have refused to sign a code of conduct designed to guarantee “full and open access” to the net. Ten ISPs including BT, O2 and TalkTalk backed the agreement, promising not to restrict or block content unless there was a reason to deploy “reasonable traffic management practices”. But Virgin Media said […]
ESPN continues to add to its line-up of live top-flight football with the acquisition of French Ligue 1 rights and renewals of its agreements to cover Italian Serie A, Eredivisie and the Russian Premier League. The agreements all include multimedia rights – across TV and digital media – in the UK and Ireland. The new […]
Google has announced that it will soon open a new studio in London to help some of the most popular YouTube posters make their videos look more professional. Based in Google’s Soho offices in London, the creator space will include two studios, a green screen for backdrops, fully staffed editing suites and cameras based on […]
The European Commission has cleared under the EU Merger Regulation the proposed acquisition of pay-TV technology specialist NDS Group by Cisco Systems. The Commission’s investigation confirmed that the merged entity would continue to face competition from a number of strong competitors and that customers, namely pay-TV providers, would continue to have alternative suppliers in all […]
A wide-ranging collection of music industry performers and executives have put their name to an open letter to the Daily Telegraph seeking government implementation of what they call “the long-overdue measures in the Digital Economy Act 2010,” as well as ensuring broadband providers, search engines and online advertisers play their part in protecting consumers and […]
Portugal Telecom is planning three TV channels which will be exclusively available on the Meo pay-TV platform (available via IPTV and satellite). A Bola TV is the result of a partnership with Portuguese publishing group Vicra, which owns the A Bola sports daily, and will be launched in September on position 12. Vicra expects to […]
ESPN and DFL, the commercial arm of the German Bundesliga, have agreed a three year agreement (seasons 2012/13 – 2014/15) for live coverage of the Bundesliga to remain on ESPN in the UK and Ireland. The agreement includes exclusive rights to live television coverage, plus rights to the German SuperCup, promotion and relegation matches, a […]
Verizon FiOS and AT&T U-verse, in separate agreements with NBCUniversal, have announced multiplatform content offerings for NBCUniversal’s coverage of the London 2012 Summer Olympic Games. Designed to provide AT&T U-verse and Verizon FiOS customers with access to more than 5,535 hours of NBCUniversal’s coverage of Olympic programming, this offering represents the largest number of total […]