WRN Broadcast, the international broadcast services company, has secured a contract to manage and playout a range of TV channels for Wananchi’s triple play Zuku platform in East Africa. The contract for the new channels, six of which will be available in both SD and HD, places the London-based facility at the forefront of HD […]
Discovery Communications has confirmed new programming deals with European third party broadcasters to air a combined 200 hours of content from across Discovery’s portfolio of networks. In France, an output deal has been negotiated with TF1’s free digital terrestrial channels NT1 and TMC to air the latest seasons of popular Discovery series Deadliest Catch and […]
The Premier League has embarked on a long-awaited court action to prove pubs using foreign signals to show English Premier League games are breaking the law. Karen Murphy, a Portsmouth landlady purchased a Greek system through an importer and paid an annual subscription. The Premier League, which sells its rights exclusively to Sky in the […]
In line with its aims of becoming one of the world’s first global 360 degree live music brands, Swiss-based iConcerts has brokered a distribution and co-production deal with China DTV Production Company Limited, a division of CCTV (China Central Television). The multi-faceted collaboration starting this Autumn, will see China DTV Production’s digital music channel broadcast […]
euronews, the international news channel, has signed a partnership agreement with Panasonic for the launch of euronews on Panasonic’s Viera Cast platform. From now on, every Panasonic Viera Cast user can access euronews content in 4 languages (English, French, German and Italian, new languages to be added in the future). Viewers can easily watch the […]
The Walt Disney Company has split up its underperforming Internet and gaming division bringing in two outsiders to lead the businesses. James A. Pitaro, vice president of Yahoo Media, and John Pleasants, chief executive of Playdom, the social gaming company that Disney bought in July, were named co-presidents of the Disney Interactive Media Group. Pitaro, […]
Portugal Telecom has added an interactive and a karaoke channel to its pay-TV service ‘Meo’. The interactive channel, called ‘TVI Secret Story’, enables viewers to watch everything that happens in the house 24/7 via four cameras placed in different rooms. Using the green button, users can select which camera feed they want to see, and […]
Sky has unveiled plans to launch Sky Atlantic HD in early 2011. Following Sky and HBO’s multi-year output deal announced in July, Sky Atlantic HD will air all of HBO’s new series exclusively in the UK and Ireland. Old and new content from HBO will also be offered to Sky customers via Sky’s on-demand platforms, […]
Disney sports broadcasting subsidiary ESPN will acquire France Telecom’s Orange Sport TV channel at the end of October, according to various reports. Under the deal, Orange will distribute the sports channel under the ESPN brand in France and internationally. The channel will be entirely managed by ESPN but Orange will continue to transmit French football […]
Paramount Pictures has struck a series of international digital distribution deals for The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers, an online adventure series. The series, which Paramount calls The LXD, has already been a hit online in the US, where it is available via Hulu The series has topped the Hulu viewing charts, beating established TV shows, […]