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SPI International’s Dizi on A1 Belarus

SPI/FilmBox and A1, a private telecom, ICT and content service provider in Belarus, have agreed a distribution agreement for SPI’s premium drama brand Dizi which will be offered as both a linear channel and SVoD through the operator’s IPTV platform. Timeless Dizi Channel will be available to all A1 subscribers in Belarus and the viewers […]

July 6, 2021

Viacom18 brings La Liga to India

Viacom18 Media, the Indian media conglomerate, has announced a deal with La Liga to bring the Spanish Football League exclusively to the Indian sub-continent for the next 3 years. Enabled and supported by Rise Worldwide, La Liga will air exclusively on MTV in India, along with select national and regional network channels and live-streamed on […]

July 5, 2021

England QF most-watched live TV event of 2021

England’s Euro 2020 quarter-final win over Ukraine on July 3rd was watched by an audience of 20.9 million people on the BBC, slightly up on the 20.6 million who watched the win over Germany in the previous round. The peak audience figure made it the most-watched live TV event of 2021 in the UK. A […]

July 5, 2021By Nik Roseveare

Record digital growth for Eurosport ahead of Olympics

With just over two weeks to go until its coverage of the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Eurosport has announced record digital growth for the first half of 2021. Eurosport.com attracted more than 50 million unique visitors in June 2021, serving fans around the world with the latest sports news, scores and features. Representing a peak in […]

July 5, 2021

European Cricket Network joins Recast

European Cricket fans are now able to watch video content from European Cricket Network (ECN) thanks to its new partnership with Recast, the sports OTT platform. The ECN are the latest organisation to join Recast in a bid to maximise revenue generation through fan viewership whilst ensuring fans have affordable access to the content they […]

July 5, 2021

Luxembourg: Golf Channel launches on PostTV

Mediawan’s Golf Channel has been added to the PostTV platform in Luxembourg’s largest TV platform. The announcement was made by Alteox Media Consulting, the content provider and technical partner of POST Luxembourg. The channel is available in the ‘Entertain Me!; package that offers over 100 channels in English, German, French and other languages and allows […]

July 5, 2021

Mediaset expects football ad revenues to surpass €100m

Italian broadcasting group Mediaset is expecting to earn over €100 million in advertising revenues from its football coverage, reports daily Il Sole 24 Ore. During a meeting with journalists, CEO Pier Silvio Berlusconi said that the 2020 budget closed “much above expectations”, while the one for 2021 “will be excellent”. He added that “ratings are […]

July 2, 2021From Branislav Pekic in Rome

Fremantle acquires 12 NENT prodcos

Fremantle has entered into a sale agreement for the purchase of 12 NENT Studios production labels in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark that operate across non-scripted, scripted and factual businesses. The purchase will see the 12 labels, across the three content pillars of entertainment, scripted and documentaries, plus branded content and event management, join the […]

July 2, 2021

Channel 4, Sky expand partnership

Channel 4 and Sky have renewed and expanded their long-term commercial partnership. The broadcasters say that their new multi-year agreement will “extend the strategic relationship, giving both parties more opportunities to collaborate, support commercial growth, and innovate as broadcasting evolves in the future”. The partnership will make even more Channel 4 content available to Sky […]

July 2, 2021

TikTok ups video length to 3min

TikTok, the social media app, is increasing the maximum length of videos on its platform to three minutes. In a blog post, product manager Drew Kirchhoff said he believed the change would allow for “even richer storytelling and entertainment” on the short-form video sharing platform. Since launching in 2018, TikTok has limited its users to […]

July 2, 2021