According to Chase Carey, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman of the Formula One Group, the sport faces a major challenge as it plans the way races are viewed in the future. Motorsport Network Formula One expert Adam Cooper says that Carey acknowledges that generating income from fans who are willing to pay for a […]
Australian pay-TV operator Foxtel and premium channel Fox Sports are to be merged into a single company that could be listed on the stock exchange, owners News Corp and Telstra have announced. Fox Sports is completely owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, while Telstra and Foxtel currently share ownership of Foxtel. The pair say the […]
Sky is to broadcast Queens Park Rangers’ charity football match on September 2nd in aid of the West London community affected by the Grenfell Tower fire. The match, branded #Game4Grenfell, will see former football professionals, celebrities and special guests play a 90-minute match at QPR’s 18,000-capacity Loftus Road stadium in Shepherd’s Bush, the closest league ground […]
Discovery Communications has struck a streaming deal in Germany and Austria with Amazon that brings Amazon Prime members access to Eurosport’s premium live HD sports content, including exclusive Bundesliga live on Friday nights across Germany. Eurosport goes live on Amazon Channels on August 16th 2017. In what the broadcaster describes as “a fantastic deal for […]
According to Patrick Grove, co-founder and chairman of VoD platform iFlix, the service’s main competitor is not traditional television, but piracy. Speaking on CNBC’s Managing Asia, Grove said
A social-media-sourced barometer report from virtualised media production solutions specialist Nevion has highlighted the impact that IP technology is continuing to have on the future of the broadcast industry. The barometer, The future of broadcast — paving the way to virtualized production, confirms that IP is
The TV App Agency (TVAA), the software developers for TV applications on multiple platforms, has designed the front-end applications that are delivering the powerful user experience for the Zee Entertainment Middle East Z5 Weyyak AVoD service. Z5 Weyyak is the first digital foray into the Arabic territory for Zee Entertainment, which has swiftly established a […]
Analysts at investment bank Piper Jaffray have suggested that the end of a distribution deal between Netflix and Disney will not hurt the streaming giant as much as some investors and observers predict. The bank’s survey of more than 500 current US users of Netflix found that only some 20 per cent spend more than […]
Premium streaming service Hulu has selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its cloud provider, and leveraged AWS to launch its new, over-the-top (OTT) live TV service. Hulu turned to AWS for a scalable, agile, and cost-effective infrastructure to support the addition of more than 50 live channels for the Hulu with Live TV launch in […]
Sky could have to pay extra £600 million (€660m) per season for the next Premier League deal as Amazon emerges as a potential competitor, according to Citi Bank. Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Netflix are all emerging as potential competitors for the rights, which are currently split between Sky and BT under a three-year deal. […]