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 […]
Sinclair Networks-owned Tennis Channel has launched an international subscription streaming service, the first-stage roll out for what is intended to become a global tennis-media destination. Initially launching in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, with plans for other worldwide markets, the over-the-top (OTT) platform will offer content on the new Tennis Channel International app, with the service […]
Lionsgate UK is to stream four of its big-ticket movies for free as part of a campaign to raise funds for health service and industry-related charities during the Coronavirus lockdown. Starting on May 2nd, the weekly ‘Lionsgate Live! A Night at the Movies’ will livestream Oscar-winning La La Land, biopic Eddie The Eagle, Bend It […]
Findings from digital piracy data specialist MUSO reveal that content piracy has significantly increased with unprecedented gains for film piracy since social distancing and lockdown measures were enforced in March. When comparing the last seven days of March to the last seven days of February 2020, MUSO’s data shows film piracy website visits increasing as […]
At a time when the Great British Public is spending an unprecedented amount of time indoors, everyone has had to change and adapt how they are living their lives. It’s no surprise that Brits are consuming more TV, more apps and using more broadband, according to multiplay operator Sky. Sky’s research reveals what TV shows […]
VOD365, a provider of branded OTT TV channels via Freeview, YouView, Freesat, mobile and smart TV devices, has agreed a major content deal with NBC Universal. Under the terms of the deal, VOD365 picks up exclusive UK VoD rights to many of NBC Universal’s globally recognised brands for the Company’s kids’ channels. The agreement will […]
Mark Mulready, Vice President of Cyber Services at anti-piracy technology specialist Irdeto, has criticised the emergence of an app on Popcorn Time, the platform that provides a free ’alternative’ to subscription-based video streaming services, offering free, family entertainment during the lockdown. “Piracy sites across the globe are profiting from the backlog of content being made […]
Scrubs, the celebrated US medical-comedy, is arriving on All 4 from May 1st in a distribution deal with The Walt Disney Company. Scrubs follows the life of intern John Dorian (Zach Braff) as he starts his medical career at Sacred Heart Hospital, which is bursting with eccentric staff and patients. His experiences and encounters with […]
ITV Studios has acquired the exclusive rights to produce the unscripted game show Red Carpet Survival from Japan’s Nippon TV in each territory it has an unscripted production base. The production deal spans 33 territories across Europe, the United States, the Middle East, North Africa and Australia, as well as rights to distribute the resulting finished versions […]
Netflix and The Pokémon Company International have announced that upcoming seasons of the iconic Pokémon animated series will premiere exclusively on Netflix in the US. The partnership kicks off with the launch of the first 12 episodes of the new 23rd season of the series on June 12th. Additional new episodes of Pokémon Journeys: The […]