Starting May 8th, all customers of UK pay-TV operator Sky will be able to binge popular TV box sets as part of a new ‘ReWatch’ campaign. With people spending more time at home, Sky TV is making iconic box sets such as Game of Thrones, Chernobyl, Parks & Recreation and Intelligence available to all Sky […]
ViacomCBS and Google have announced a multi-year distribution agreement to deliver more content from ViacomCBS’ portfolio of news, entertainment and sports networks for YouTube TV subscribers. In addition to featuring continued carriage of CBS broadcast stations, CBS Sports Network, Pop TV, Smithsonian Channel, and The CW, the expanded agreement introduces 14 ViacomCBS channels to the […]
ITV Studios has unveiled a host of global sales for its natural history one-off’s, India’s Wild Karnataka and Wild Tokyo. BBC America has opted to pick up both documentaries for its dedicated bluechip natural history strand Wonderstruck, with the two titles also being acquired by Bilibili and Huanxi Media in China and TVNZ in New […]
Private equity funds CVC Capital Partners and Blackstone are eyeing Italy’s top football league with increased interest. Its current TV rights deal expires in 2021. CVC is reportedly ready to make a substantial offer for the 10-year rights to the matches of the 20 Serie A football teams, according to daily Il Sole 24 Ore. […]
Pay-TV network Starz is suing MGM alleging that the studio has licensed “hundreds” of movies in breach of its exclusivity agreement with Starz. The complaint was filed May 4th in a California Federal Court. The writ alleges that the Starz deal with MGM covers recent James Bond movies as well as classics such as Bill […]
YouTube is to be the exclusive live streaming home for Felix Kjellberg, aka PewDiePie, one of the world’s most popular gaming celebrities and content creators. Kjellberg has amassed 104 million subscribers and generated over 25 billion views to date, far and away the most of any individually operated YouTube channel in history. “YouTube has been […]
With filming on fresh shows halted, and those in the can likely to run out at some future stage, users of UK commercial PSB ITV’s AVoD service ITV Hub will be treated to classic episodes of their favourite soap operas from Monday May 4th. Vintage episodes of Coronation Street and Emmerdale will be making their […]
Comcast’s Q1 results reveal Sky is suffering through the postponement and cancellation of live sports with the loss of 65,000 subscribers against 112,000 additions in the same period last year. Sky CEO Jeremy Darroch said that “some sort of reset” would be required in negotiating sports rights in future cycles. He said that Sky had […]
The US Government has published a report that places Saudi Arabia on its Priority Watch List, related in large part to the piracy by beoutQ, while also exceptionally announcing an ‘Out-of-Cycle Review’ into Saudi
Amazon has agreed with the National Football League (NFL) for a three-year deal to continue streaming NFL Thursday night games. Amazon Prime Video and Twitch will stream the 11 Thursday Night Football games broadcast by FOX, which will be available to more than 150 million paid Prime members worldwide, and in over 200 countries and […]