A licensee has been found guilty of three offences of dishonest reception of a television transmission by showing Sky Sports to customers without a commercial agreement from Sky. Jagdish Karsan Devshi of the Moonbay Restaurant in Wembley, London, entered a plea of guilty to the charges and was fined £1,026 (€1,118) per offence and ordered […]
Channel 5’s VoD catch-up service, My5, has agreed a deal with A+E Networks UK to offer content from the Blaze channel. My5 is home to the most popular programming from across the Channel 5 network of channels – 5STAR, 5USA and Spike. These offer programme titles such as Blind Date, Big Brother and Lip Sync […]
Australian pay-TV operator Foxtel and cinema chain Dendy are launching a new route to market for Australian and international film content by combining theatrical and premium on demand channels of distribution. They say the new model will create a more sustainable distribution strategy for niche feature and documentary films. This route to market provides a […]
Fox Networks Group (FNG) Europe and Africa has announced FOX+ will be making its debut in Germany on October 4th, with European Telco Deutsche Telekom being the first partner in country to launch the new non-linear platform. Offering full series and seasons on-demand, FOX+ provides access to the vast TV content library from 21st Century […]
A new free-to-air TV channel, FreeSports, has launched in the UK showing up to 10 live football games every week. The channel, operated by the team behind Premier Sports, becomes the only FTA sports channel available on Freeview, TalkTalk and BT. Sky and FreeSat are also carrying the channel, but not Virgin Media. The channel […]
Virgin Media has announced Good Behavior, as its latest TV exclusive. The TNT original series sees award-winning actress Michelle Dockery (Downton Abbey) in the lead role. The new series consists of 10 one-hour long episodes, with the first six episodes launching on Virgin TV on demand from September 11th, and a new episode released every […]
AB Group will launch its new male-skewed discovery channel ABXplore in French-speaking Belgium on September 13th. It replaces existing channel AB4, mainly targeting men from 15 to 49 years old. The line-up will focus on entertainment, reality TV and documentaries, and will feature content acquired from the likes of A&E, BBC, National Geographic and Discovery. […]
Virgin Media has rolled out its Virgin TV Kids app – created exclusively for some of its youngest customers. The app has been designed specifically for pre and early primary school children (3-7 years old) – and brings together more than 2000 episodes of on demand kids TV, along with reading books and interactive games. […]
Jay Hunt, the creative head at Channel 4, has revealed the broadcaster needs the Great British Bake Off to attract at least 3 million viewers per episode to break even following its £75 million (€81m) acquisition of the show. Hunt, speaking at the Edinburgh International TV festival said she would be delighted if the programme […]
Kabillion and Mediacom have finalised a deal to carry Kabillion and Kabillion Girls Rule! on Mediacom’s VoD service in the US. Kabillion, the only independently owned VoD network ranked among the Top 10 Kids Free On Demand networks, will launch in select US markets within Mediacom’s service foot-print and continue to expand in the future. […]