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The World Games streaming platform goes live

The International World Games Association (IWGA) has announced the launch of The World Games Live, a dedicated global streaming platform created to bring The World Games 2025 (TWG) in Chengdu, China, directly to fans worldwide. Developed in partnership the International Sports Broadcasting Company (ISB), TWG´s global host broadcaster, the platform will stream live action from […]

July 28, 2025

La Liga strengthens Asia expansion

La Liga has signed an exclusive deal with Begin, the OTT service in Southeast Asia, to broadcast all first and second division matches through 2030 in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. The agreement takes effect immediately in Pakistan and Bangladesh, while coverage in Sri Lanka will begin with the 2026–2027 season. The deal will run […]

July 25, 2025From David Del Valle in Madrid

Arrests in Argentina La Liga piracy case

In a new key step in the fight against audiovisual fraud, Spain’s top-flight football league La Liga and ALIANZA Against Piracy have announced a decisive legal action in Argentina, involving five simultaneous raids and multiple arrest warrants issued by the courts in the framework of a major case against the illegal platform MagisTV — one […]

July 25, 2025By Colin Mann

Italy: DAZN, WBD expand partnership

DAZN, the sports streaming platform, and Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) have announced the strengthening of their partnership — active since 2020 — with a new multi-year agreement for the Italian market. As part of this expanded collaboration, DAZN Italy is increasing its investments to further enhance its multisport offering, which already includes Eurosport 1 and […]

July 25, 2025

Only Murders in the Building Season 5 on Disney+ in September

Disney+ has announced that the Emmy®-winning, Original comedy series Only Murders in the Building – starring Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez – returns for season five on September 9th, with three episodes followed by new episodes weekly, exclusively on Disney+ (and Hulu in the US). After their beloved doorman, Lester, dies under suspicious […]

July 25, 2025

YouTube nears $10bn ad revenue for quarter

Alphabet Q2 2025 made $96.4 billion (€81. 9bn) in revenue. Net income was $28.2 billion, up 19 per cent from the second quarter of 2024.5 YouTube’s ad revenue for the quarter ending June 30, 2025 came in at $9.8 billion. In June, YouTube made up 12.8 per cent of all TV usage, according to Nielsen, […]

July 24, 2025

Movistar Plus+ Fútbol Total for €35 a month

Movistar Plus+ has launched the Fútbol Total promotion including the most complete football package available in Spain. For €35 per month for 12 months, subscribers will gain access to top-tier domestic and international competitions, including every match of LaLiga EA Sports, all 42 matchdays of LaLiga Hypermotion, promotion playoffs, the UEFA Champions League, Europa League, […]

July 24, 2025From David Del Valle in Madrid

Paramount Global, Park County extend deal

Paramount Global, Park County and South Park Digital Studios have announced an expansive renewal with South Park co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone for five years, including 50 new episodes, all 26 previous season episodes and extending South Park on Comedy Central and Paramount+ around the world. In addition, for the first time ever, Paramount+ will become the US […]

July 24, 2025

TAC welcomes Ofcom Codes of Practice decision

Welsh independent TV producers trade body TAC (Teledwyr Annibynnol Cymru) has welcomed the decision by broadcast regulator Ofcom not to proceed with proposed changes to the Codes of Practice which guide commissioning negotiations between UK public service broadcasters and independent producers. Ofcom had proposed to bundle primary and secondary rights and to remove a prohibition […]

July 24, 2025

ITV acquires Matthew Perry doc

ITV has acquired the documentary, Matthew Perry: A Hollywood Tragedy, which will arrive on ITV1, ITVX, STV & STV Player on August 18th. Never seen before by a UK audience, the ITN Productions’ documentary has been updated by the producers since it first aired on Peacock in the US to feature new developments in the […]

July 24, 2025