A man who pleaded guilty to supplying set-top-boxes which illegally provided access to premium pay-TV content has been jailed for two years, in the latest in a series of actions designed to crackdown on illegal streaming. Paul Jaques, of West Yorkshire, sold around 2,500 of the illegal devices, with accompanying illicit subscriptions. Between 2015 and […]
L’Équipe, the free-to-air French channel, has secured the rights to broadcast one live NFL game per week during the new season. The deal will see L’Équipe air one regular season game every Sunday on its linear channel and via its digital channels. In total, L’Équipe will show 17 regular-season matches over the course of the […]
DAZN, the sports streaming service, has secured the media rights to show the EHF Champions League and European handball club competitions on the streaming service in Austria, Germany, Spain and Switzerland. The new partnership means the men’s and women’s editions of the EHF Champions League as well the EHF European League and EHF European Cup […]
The Daleks, the infamous enemies of Doctor Who, are getting their own animated series. A five-part CGI animation series will launching in November and be available for fans to watch for free, weekly on the official Doctor Who YouTube channel. Titled Daleks!, the series will feature a star-studded voiceover cast with Nicholas Briggs (voice of […]
LG Electronics (LG) is launching an integrated Amazon Music app for its OLED, NanoCell and smart LCD TVs produced between 2016 and 2020 for LG TV owners in key countries of Asia, Europe and the Americas. With Amazon Music, Prime members have access to two million songs and over one thousand playlists and stations at […]
RTL-owned production giant Fremantle says that out of some 200 of its TV productions that were closed down during the Covid-19 lockdowns, around 80 per cent have restarted or been completed. RTL Group CFO Björn Bauer, speaking at Deutsche Bank’s 2020 European TMT Conference, told delegates that 2021 should see demand being strong from streaming […]
The production of high-end series is trending upwards, fuelled on the one hand by the investment in TV fiction of the pure SVoD players, chiefly Netflix, but also by a rebalancing of broadcasters’ investment from TV films to series – a move to better retain audiences. Available figures suggest that only a limited number of […]
Silverbird Television has agreed a deal to broadcast one live Premier League match per week over the course of the 2020 – 2021 season. This deal was agreed with Integral, the current free-to-air rights holder for the Premier League matches in Nigeria. Integral secured its rights in a sub-licence deal from the Infront Sports & […]
The previously untold origins of Olaf, the innocent and insightful snowman from Disney animated feature Frozen and its sequel, are set to be revealed in a new Walt Disney Animation Studios animated short, Once Upon a Snowman. The film follows Olaf’s first steps as he comes to life and searches for his identity in the […]
beIN Sports and the National Independent Soccer Association (NISA) have announced a new partnership to air the 2020 Fall Championship Tournament from September 21st through October 2nd. The announcement marks the first-ever broadcast partnership for NISA and adds another league to beIN Sports’ sports programming line-up. Games will be aired in the US and Canada […]