Eurosport has partnered with the International SAMBO Federation in an agreement that will see the martial arts sport showcased in up to 65 countries across Europe and the Asia-Pacific regions. Eurosport will show live coverage of the annual World Championships in November and extended highlights of the yearly World Cup in Europe and Asia-Pacific. Coverage […]
Italian Serie A has backed the launch by Spain’s Mediapro of a corporate football TV channel, branded ‘Lega’, for the period 2021-2024, with a rights fee of €1.3 billion. The Italian football teams have welcomed Mediapro’s channel and have asked Serie A League to reach an agreement with the Spanish company before September 30th. Mediapro […]
Mediaset Spain will pay a huge bill for La Liga, Champions and Europa League rights if its streaming service Mitele Plus proves to be a success. According to El Economista, Mediaset will have to pay Movistar over €60 million if its new OTT service captures 270,000 subscribers. The minimum payment will be €20 million per […]
Streaming company Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) has acquired the exclusive Nordic media rights to Rugby World Cup 2019. Every match from this year’s tournament, which features 20 teams and will take place in Japan from September 20th to November 2nd, will be available live for rugby union fans across the region on NENT Group’s […]
The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) – a global coalition dedicated to protecting the dynamic legal market and reducing online piracy – has welcomed the sentencing of two operators of the Uruguay-based piracy outfit, Pelispedia to three years and four months jail time by the prosecutor’s office in Montevideo. Approximately $500,000 (€449,377) in assets […]
The investments made in Spain by streaming sports platform DAZN are not paying off as expected. Increased competition from traditional TV operators – with their own OTT platforms such as Mediaset’s Mitele Plus – as well as the lack of key sports TV rights such as La Liga, and declining audience ratings for MotoGP, are […]
Amazon Prime Video has acquired the exclusive rights to show the Roland-Garros French Open Tennis night sessions as well as all matches taking place on the Simonne-Mathieu court in France in a three-year deal starting in 2021. Prime members in France will have access to this coverage at no additional cost to their membership. Prime […]
Australian pay-TV platform Foxtel has unveiled The New Foxtel Experience which it says will provide customers with its iQ3 and iQ4 set top boxes a completely redesigned user experience, bringing together the best of TV and on demand, all in one place. As part of the New Experience, Netflix will now be available for the […]
Some six years after it agreed a similar deal with Netflix, customers of UK multiplay operator Virgin Media can now access Amazon Prime Video for the first time directly through Virgin TV. The July 22nd launch gives Virgin Media customers the ability to search for and watch Prime Video content seamlessly through their V6 box. […]
Following the confirmation in late February 2019 that they were in the concluding phase of talks to establish a strategic partnership, ITV and the BBC have now signed an agreement to launch BritBox in the UK in the fourth quarter of this year, describing it as “a bold, new step” as they seek to work […]