Three suppliers of pre-loaded IPTV boxes that facilitate mass piracy of Premier League football broadcasts have been ordered to pay a total of £267,000 (€311,230) by the Courts for infringing copyright. The three sellers of pre-loaded IPTV boxes ordered to pay costs are: Football for Pubs Limited (based in Liverpool) was ordered by the High […]
BT Media & Broadcast has announced its association with Viacom18, one of India’s fastest growing entertainment network, to bring its flagship Hindi general entertainment channel, Colors, to Sky subscribers in UK in HD format. BT will manage the channel’s distribution into London’s BT Tower via its dedicated, high capacity Global Media Network (GMN), and fully […]
Following advanced-television.com’s disclosure that Discovery Communications was to launch a second free-to-air service in the UK, the broadcaster has revealed further details of the channel – Quest Red – set to launch on March 15th. Quest Red will be the home of ‘irresistibly real TV’ with programmes genres spanning big personalities, extraordinary worlds, gritty reality, […]
Discovery Communications has confirmed that it will launch a second free-to-air channel in the UK later this year. CEO David Zaslav revealed the plan during an earnings call with reporters, commenting: “While we never look forward to potential carriage standoff, the negotiation with Sky reaffirmed the strong value of our brand portfolio and the passion […]
Spain’s Cuerpo Nacional de Policía (National Police Force) has successfully raided a store in a shopping centre in the Málaga resort of Calahonda, owned by an ISP suspected of hosting a large-scale illegal IPTV streaming business, thanks to a collaborative effort with Premier League and content security specialist Irdeto. Investigations revealed that the ISP in […]
In providing a first look at some of the new original content coming to the service in 2017, at a special event in New York, Netflix has stressed its goal of creating an experience that consistently presents the right content to the right member at the right time. Noting that Internet TV knows no time […]
Music channel 4Music has launched on Freesat – the UK’s subscription-free satellite TV service. The launch takes place ahead of the UK premiere of the 59th Grammy Awards which will broadcast on 4Music on February 13th. 4Music joins Freesat’s other music channels, including Kiss and Magic, and replaces The Box on channel 509. The arrival […]
With Andrus Ansip, EC Vice-President in charge of the Digital Single Market, describing it as “a new important step” in breaking down barriers in the Digital Single Market, Europeans will soon be able fully to use their online subscriptions to films, sports events, e-books, video games or music services when travelling within the EU, following […]
Hit Tom Hardy drama Taboo and psychological thriller Apple Tree Yard will become the first of a new run of boxsets on BBC iPlayer. All episodes of each show will remain on iPlayer until the last episode is broadcast. The full series will then be available to watch as a boxset for 30 days. The […]
Five people have been arrested in a crackdown on the sale and distribution of illegal TV set-top devices in the North West of England and Wales. The multi-agency day of action on February 8th saw the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT), Greater Manchester Police, City of London Police’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) and the […]