ESPN Player will bring subscribers every single game of the returning XFL – the professional American football league owned by Vince McMahon’s Alpha Entertainment. The streaming service will bring coverage of the entire XFL 2020 season, including the playoffs, to fans in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) anytime, anywhere. Viewers will have the […]
Antenna Group, the CEE broadcaster, has extended its joint venture with Vice Media to 2024 and expanded the countries involved. The new agreement will see Vice programming continue to be made available in Greece, Romania and Serbia. Antenna will now also work with Vice to take its content into Hungary, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, […]
As the Formula One circus pitched up in Austin, Texas, for the US Grand Prix, ESPN and Formula 1 revealed they have forged a new agreement that will keep the FIA Formula One World Championship on ESPN and ABC through 2022. F1 returned to the ESPN networks in 2018, seeing double-digit television viewership growth in […]
The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) – a global coalition dedicated to protecting the dynamic legal market and reducing online piracy – has achieved another major win when the operator of two giant sources of illegal, unauthorised content, agreed to cease all operations. Prior to this ACE action, Openload and Streamango were massive piracy […]
Bell Media has agreed for the exclusive Canadian rights to original series made for the upcoming US streaming platform HBO Max. The agreeement with Warner Bros will secure a of number of titles for Bell’s streaming paltfrom Crave. The deal would seem to confirms that HBO Max isn’t headed to Canada as a stand-alone service […]
A new collection of kids and family programming from Warner Bros Animation and Cartoon Network Studios is coming to HBO Max when the service launches in May 2020. Brand new Looney Tunes Cartoons and a new Jellystone series featuring beloved Hanna-Barbera characters have been picked up from Warner Bros Animation. New animated series The Fungies! […]
Sky and WarnerMedia, the home of HBO, Turner and Warner Bros, have expanded their longstanding partnership to include new programming and co-production agreements. The two companies have agreed an extension to their programming deals across Sky’s European markets, meaning Sky and NOW TV customers will have access to content from HBO and Warner Bros as […]
Following successful legal action taken by Sky, Stephen Ashley the licensee of Rotunda Tavern in Cheltenham, has been found to be infringing Sky’s copyright by showing Sky Sports without having the required commercial agreement. Ashley was ordered to pay damages in the sum of £27,499.32 (€31,830) plus interest of £412.49 and costs of £7,867.50, totalling […]
An electronics retailer in Singapore has been convicted of selling illegal streaming devices (ISDs), which provided access to illegal broadcasts of Premier League football and other entertainment content. Synnex Trading and its Director Jia Xiaofeng were found guilty of four criminal charges of copyright infringement. Jia was sentenced to 12 weeks in jail and ordered […]
Cable and satellite channel, Shorts TV, has closed a deal with French producer and distributor Prime Entertainment Group for a package of over 300 episodes of celebrity and movie related programmes. To air in Mexico and Central America countries, this new deal includes Prime’s productions and celebrity and entertainment content, counting 65 episodes of Hollywood’s […]