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Channel 4 signs The Boat Race broadcast deal

Channel 4 has secured the broadcast rights to The Boat Race in a multi-year agreement. At the Presidents’ Challenge event held at Somerset House, at which the losing crew from the previous year’s Boat Race formally challenges the winning crew to a race, Channel 4 will be welcomed as the new home of The Boat […]

October 1, 2025

ITV extends UK horse racing, Formula E rights

ITV has agreed a new four-year deal to show exclusive, free-to-air coverage of UK horse racing from 2027 until the end of 2030. Some 117 days of live coverage will be shown across ITV1, ITV4, STV and STV Player – all simulcast on ITVX – along with the morning racing programme The Opening Show. Additionally, […]

October 1, 2025By Nik Roseveare

Premier League, Astro warn of piracy risks

The Premier League, in collaboration with its local broadcast partner Astro, has launched the latest edition of its annual ‘Boot Out Piracy’ campaign in Malaysia, highlighting the hidden risks that illegal streaming poses to fans. Now in its fifth edition in Malaysia, some of the biggest stars in football are lending their voices to educate […]

October 1, 2025By Colin Mann

Netherlands: Extreme H signs Ziggo Sport deal

The FIA Extreme H World Cup Presented by PIF, the hydrogen motorsport championship, has confirmed a two-year broadcast partnership with Ziggo Sport, bringing the series to fans across the Netherlands. The action will begin with Extreme E’s Final Lap on October 4th to 5th, a celebratory farewell to its electric racing, before the launch of […]

October 1, 2025

S4C launching series of true crime docs

S4C is set to air a new season of true crime documentaries over the coming months, exploring some of the most shocking and significant criminal cases to have impacted Wales and the UK at large. Available to viewers across the UK on S4C, BBC iPlayer and S4C Clic, the series will delve into a range […]

October 1, 2025

Samsung Art Store adding MoMA: Fall Under the Spell collection

Samsung Art Store has partnered with the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) to launch a new collection in time for Halloween and the autumn season. Launching on October 6th, Samsung Art Store subscribers can display more than 20 works from Leonora Carrington, Diego Rivera, James Ensor, Edvard Munch and more as part of the new […]

October 1, 2025

Research: Content overlap now common on US VoD platforms

Insight from Ampere Analysis shows that US streaming platforms are increasingly sharing catalogues across platforms. In July 2025, 39 per cent of US titles (67,000 of 172,000) appeared on two or more services, compared with 13 per cent in the UK and 8 per cent in France over the same period. The high rate of […]

September 30, 2025

Trump renews 100% foreign movies tariff threat

US President Donald Trump has announced that all foreign-made movies will face a 100 per cent tariff, contending that the industry has been “stolen from the United States”. Posting on his Truth Social platform, Trump said: “Our movie making business has been stolen from the United States of America, by other Countries, just like stealing […]

September 30, 2025By Colin Mann

Sky Sports reports record weekend viewership

The September 27th-28th weekend was the most watched in Sky Sports history as 8.8 million viewers tuned in to a line-up of live action from the Ryder Cup, Premier League, EFL, WSL, SPFL and Bundesliga as well as rugby league, tennis and NFL. Central to the weekend was the 2025 Ryder Cup which created history […]

September 30, 2025

Pluto TV launching Pluto Snooker 900 channel

Pluto TV, the free streaming platform, is launching new snooker channel Pluto Snooker 900. Snooker fans in the UK, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland can tune in to all the table action from October 6th. The channel, which will initially broadcast 18 hours a week of live snooker, will be the […]

September 30, 2025By Nik Roseveare