Netflix has entered into a multi-year first look deal with director, producer, and actress, Regina King and her production company Royal Ties. Named one of Time Magazine’s most influential people of 2019, King recently won an Academy Award for her role as Sharon Rivers in feature film If Beale Street Could Talk as well as […]
Neil Sharpe, Product Marketing Director at content and revenue protection specialist Friend MTS, has described streaming piracy as a “sophisticated, industrial scale problem”, but suggested that with the right techniques, tackling it is not an insurmountable task. Speaking at SportsPro Live in London, Sharpe told delegates that research from market analyst firm Ovum estimated that […]
Former US President Barack Obama, and his wife Michelle, have revealed their first slate of content for the Netflix platform. The former first couple announced a content deal with the streaming giant in May of last year to produce a raft of shows and films under their production company Higher Ground, and have now unveiled […]
Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) has secured the exclusive Nordic media rights to W Series, the world’s first all women motor racing championship. Every race from the 2019 W Series season will be shown live on NENT Group’s Viaplay streaming service and Viasat pay-TV channels, with selected races broadcast on NENT Group’s free-TV channels. Kim […]
With April 26th marking World Intellectual Property Day, Yousef Al-Obaidly, chief executive of beIN Media Group, has taken the opportunity to call on the UK government to intervene in the illegal broadcasting dispute involving Saudi Arabia-based beoutQ. Writing in London freesheet City A.M., Al-Obaidly suggests the gathering storm of state-backed piracy is high on the […]
In a major governmental escalation of the global battle against the theft of world sport and entertainment by the Saudi Arabia-based pirate operation beoutQ, the US Government has published two reports that directly condemned and called for an end to the rampant Saudi-based piracy operation. The UK Government was also directly challenged in UK Parliament […]
W Series, the single-seater race series for female drivers only set to debut in 2019, has appointed leading sports marketing agency, Pitch International, to sell rights to broadcast W Series around the world. The inaugural six-race W Series championship, which aims to identify and develop a new generation of elite female racing drivers, will kick […]
Hackers are tapping into a growing consumer trend, the use of illicit streaming devices and apps to access pirated movies, TV shows and live programming, to spread malware and exploit unsuspecting users, a Digital Citizens Alliance investigation has found. Over the course of its nine-month probe, Digital Citizens, a consumer-oriented coalition focused on educating the […]
Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) has extended the exclusive Nordic rights to The Open golf championship until the end of 2024. Every hole from the prestigious championship will continue to be shown live on NENT Group’s Viaplay streaming service and Viasat Golf pay-TV channel. The 2019 Open will be played at Royal Portrush in Northern […]
Following successful legal action taken by Sky, Trevor Fitzpatrick, the licensee of Gerald Griffin Bar, Cork, in the Republic of Ireland, has been ordered to pay damages of €37,800 for infringing Sky’s copyright by showing Sky Sports programming illegally in his premises. He was also ordered to pay costs. Sky was seeking damages of €11,340 […]