Qatar broadcaster beIN MEDIA has stepped up its attack on what it considers Saudi-led piracy of its copyrighted content, in particular alluding to the potential takeover of English Premier League football club Newcastle United. In a series of tweets, beIN notes that “having spent the past six weeks telling the world how the WTO ruling […]
Banijay Group’s £1.7 billion acquisition of Endemol Shine Group creates a global content powerhouse that will be the largest unscripted producer in the world and among the top five scripted producers globally, according to a report from Ampere Analysis. Comprising 200 companies across 22 territories, the newly titled Banijay will be a powerful player in […]
During the Covid-19 pandemic, in-home device usage has surged in the US as millions of Americans complied with stay-at-home orders. Continued research from Comscore shows that, while the gap is beginning to shrink, average 2020 in-home data usage levels remain higher than 2019 levels. Year-over-year in-home data consumption across devices, although down slightly from a […]
Children continue to turn their attention to video gaming, with its role taking an ever-more influential position in the daily habits and pursuits of 3 to 16-year-olds. While the lure of gaming was appealing before the Covid-19 pandemic, the latest wave of Kids Tech consumer research from Futuresource shows that two in every three children […]
Blackbird, developer and seller of the cloud video editing platform, Blackbird, has been chosen by Sky News Arabia for remote and collaborative cloud video editing and publishing of digital news content. Sky News Arabia is a 24-hour Arabic news channel broadcast across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). With a free-to-air TV channel, digital […]
Fuel TV and the World Surf League (WSL) have struck a new multi-year distribution agreement that will see the Championship Tour (CT) and select specialty events broadcast live exclusively on Fuel TV in Portugal, and on a non-exclusive basis in other key territories including EMEA, ASIA and Mexico, it was announced today by both organisations. […]
Ateme, the emerging plater in video delivery solutions for broadcast, cable, DTH, IPTV and OTT, has announced that QNET Telecom, a telco in the state of Paraná , Brazil, has chosen to implement Ateme’s Titan Live solution to transcode its line-up of channels. Ateme’s Titan Live solution offers high video quality and multi-channel H.264 encoding […]
Netflix has seen its content earn a combined 160 Emmy nominations – a record amount that beats the 137 nods received by HBO in 2019. HBO still had the most-nominated show in Watchmen – an innovative sequel to the celebrated graphic novel that tackled racism in the US – which earned 26 nods. Succession also […]
In a major move to jump start the UK’s cultural and creative sectors following lockdown, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden has announced the launch of a Government-backed scheme worth half a billion pounds (€551m) for domestic film and TV productions struggling to get coronavirus-related insurance. The Government has also set out how organisations can apply for […]
BT Sport has announced its plans for ‘Club 2020’ as the UEFA Champions League and Europa League return on August 5th. The finals of both competitions will once again be available for free on YouTube. Club 2020 will provide fans a knockout tournament featuring 26 games in just 19 days. All games will be broadcast […]