Paramount Skydance has won the auction for the rights to broadcast the majority of Champions League matches in the UK from 2027 – further fragmenting the domestic football TV landscape. Paramount – whose subsidiary company Paramount+ already holds the rights for Champions League games in the US – made the largest bid for the rights […]
Sky Sports has announced a new four-year partnership with UEFA to exclusively broadcast every match from the UEFA Europa League and UEFA Conference League in the UK from the 2027/28 season. The deal will see 342 European matches each season added to Sky’s line-up, frequently giving customers live football seven days a week during the […]
At the 2025 IP Champion Awards reception, the US Chamber of Commerce brought together business leaders, policymakers, and creators to celebrate those leading the fight to safeguard IP. According to US Chamber research, IP supported: • Over $5 trillion (€4.3trn) in jobs across all industries and states. • $799 billion in R&D spending. • $140.36 […]
The Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) of Singapore and Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) have announced a new unscripted content partnership to co-develop original and globally appealing entertainment formats. The collaboration kicks off at the Asia TV Forum & Market (ATF), part of the Singapore Media Festival 2025 hosted by IMDA, with a dedicated masterclass series […]
SquashTV, the OTT platform owned and operated by the Professional Squash Association (PSA), has launched its official standalone app globally on Samsung smart TVs. SquashTV will present over 2,000 matches from more than 35 PSA Squash Tour events, available live and on-demand, throughout the 2025-26 season. It will also offer extended highlights, expert analysis, and […]
Sky News is rebooting its Hotspots TV brands as a new digital-first format. The new Hotspots series takes viewers into some of the world’s most hostile environments with Chief Correspondent Stuart Ramsay, Special Correspondent Alex Crawford, and their teams as they navigate the dangers and complexities of frontline reporting. From dodging a gunfire in Syria to navigating […]
The Spin Off, a new app-based quiz game, has launched – produced by ITV Studio’s who are behind popular game shows such as The Chase, Walk The Line, Sitting on a Fortune and Catch Point. Players can enter the app daily and play for free, with 60 winners drawn every day. A player will need to […]
Mega Movie Weekend has returned, running from November 21st to 23rd featuring a range of titles at promotional prices to help audiences build their digital libraries and have warm nights in as the weather grows colder. The campaign runs across key retailers, including Prime Video, Sky Store, the Apple TV app, Rakuten TV, Virgin Media […]
The BBC has acquired an adaptation of Treasure & Dirt, the crime novel by Scrublands writer Chris Hammer, for BBC One and BBC iPlayer from Sphere Abacus. Set in a dying opal town in the middle of the desert, when a miner is found beheaded and left to decompose in the depths of his own […]
At the YouTube Festival 2025 in Paris, Google-owned video platform YouTube unveiled figures from its economic impact report on the creators’ economy in France. Content creators and their activities have accordingly contributed more than €1 billion to France’s gross domestic product (GDP) for the first time in 2024. The figure includes direct revenue generated from […]