A new three-year agreement between the National Futsal Series and BT Sport will see seven weekends of the 2021/22 National Futsal Series Men’s Tier One and Women’s Super Series season shown live on BT Sport. The National Futsal Series was established in 2019 and incorporates 43 teams in five divisions across England, including both men’s […]
Next year, the entire digitised BBC broadcast archive is being made available to students in formal education in the UK. It includes millions of TV and Radio programmes, including interviews and features with almost every major cultural, artistic, political and sporting figure of the last 100 years, as well as iconic dramas and landmark comedy […]
Amazon Studios has closed a three-picture and first-look film deal with Academy Award-nominee and Emmy Award-winner Eddie Murphy. The deal follows the success of Coming 2 America on Prime Video. Murphy will now star in three films for Amazon Studios and develop original film projects for Prime Video and Studios with the potential to star. […]
Verimatrix, a specialist in powering the modern connected world, has announced that Ontario, Canada-based SSIMWAVE is one of its latest customers to integrate Verimatrix Code Protection technology. “Verimatrix has a lengthy and successful history in the media and entertainment space, so it made sense to turn to their code protection technologies,” said Peter Olijnyk, Vice […]
Redbox, the US entertainment company, has launched two Free Ad Supported Streaming TV (FAST) channels – Redbox War and Westerns and Redbox Rewind – giving its viewers hundreds of hours of streaming movies completely free. In addition to offering these channels via the Redbox app which is available on a wide range of devices including […]
Japan’s Netflix library contains more top-quality TV and film content than anywhere else in the world, according to a study by Uswitch. The research calculated which countries have access to the best-reviewed and most awarded TV and film content by totalling the IMDb scores for every TV series and film in each country’s library. This was […]
To measure people’s awareness of their phone use, gaming site Solitaired recently surveyed 667 iPhone users, asking them to guess how much time they spend on their phones, then had them send documentation of their actual usage data, courtesy of their iOS Screen Time dashboards. On average, respondents guessed they spend 25 hours and 54 […]
Rewind Networks has announced the launch of Hits and Hits Movies on Macau Cable TV starting October 1st. The channels will be available in HD on Macau Cable TV’s basic bundle on Channel 46 for Hits and Channel 40 for Hits Movies. Both channels will be available with Traditional Chinese subtitles. The launches reaffirm the […]
The obligation on French and foreign SVoD services to dedicate 20-25 per cent of their annual turnover (for services offering films newer than twelve months) to content creation in France, could generate between €1.2 and €1.5 billion additional funds for movie and TV production between 2021 and 2024. The French ‘AVMS’ Euro Directive became operative […]