Apple TV wants sell Premium Bundles if top channels in another move to identify itself as a major pay-TV player. It already sells HBO, Showtime and Starz separately but now wants to pack them into a super bundle. According to Recode, Apple has approached the three networks about rolling them up into a single package. […]
AMC’s original series Fear the Walking Dead will return for its third season on Monday June 5th at 2:00am BST simultaneous to the US premiere with a repeat at 9:00pm exclusively to BT customers. The first half of the AMC Studios production will consist of eight episodes airing over six weeks, with two back-to-back episodes […]
Speakers at the MIPTV Sony 4K Ultra HD Theatre opening panel presented a healthy picture of the uptake and prospects for the format, with platforms, equipment, and production all proceeding apace and HDR becoming increasing popular. Joe Nakato, Senior Producer, Sony Corporation, noted a survey by the UK’s Digital Television Group which revealed that for […]
Japan’s major commercial television networks have agreed to develop jointly a system that will enable simultaneous broadcasting of broadcast TV content via IP. Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, TV Asahi, TV Tokyo and Fuji Television Network have agreed in principle to invest in a joint venture established by Nippon Television Network and Internet Service Provider Internet […]
Premium sports broadcaster beIN is tackling the threat from digital piracy to its pay-TV business head-on, by deploying the live watermarking service from platform, channel and content protection services provider Friend MTS. Friend MTS is providing its live watermarking anti-piracy service ASiD (Advanced Subscriber Identification) to protect all beIN channels on the broadcaster’s OTT platform […]
Sky Cinema is bringing together all seven Fast & Furious films in a collection for the very first time in the UK on dedicated channel Sky Cinema Fast & Furious. Running from April 8th to April 17th to coincide with the release of Fast & Furious 8 in cinemas, Sky Cinema Fast & Furious will […]
Following an open tender process for 42 territories in sub-Saharan Africa, FIFA has granted media rights to five major broadcasting entities in the region. The tender was launched on 21 October 2016 and included the media rights to all 2017-2018 FIFA events, including the FIFA Confederations Cup Russia 2017 and the 2018 FIFA World Cup […]
Participants in a panel discussion at TV Connect on ‘Broadcast innovation in sport’ have suggested that their companies’ acquisition of exclusive sports rights has presented the opportunity to enable deeper engagement by followers and viewers by using new and emerging technologies. Jamie Hindhaugh, COO, BT Sports, told delegates that the broadcaster, which holds the exclusive […]
Amazon has greenlit a McLaren racing documentary series. The Amazon Original Unscripted Series will give unprecedented access to the McLaren racing team as it competes in the 2017 FIA Formula 1 World Championship. The as-yet untitled series will be a global release and available exclusively on Amazon Prime Video for members to watch via the […]
The BBC is launching a live stream of its 24-hour international news channel – BBC World News – on SVoD service Hulu Japan. The deal marks the first time the corporation has made the linear channel available via one of the major international subscription VoD services in Japan and makes BBC World News the first […]