After negotiating over the weekend, AT&T and Viacom have announced that they had reached an agreement to renew their US carriage agreement. Details of the deal were not revealed and it isn’t clear how much Viacom will be paid, or which networks will be on AT&T’s outlets, including DirecTV. In a classic stand-off, Viacom stood […]
Digital piracy data analysis specialist MUSO has revealed that there were more than 189 billion visits to piracy sites throughout 2018. MUSO’s global piracy data platform tracks piracy in film, TV, music, publishing and software. Throughout 2018, TV was by far the most popular content for piracy, with almost half (49.38 per cent) of all […]
Eleven Sports, the global sports platform, has extended its rights agreement with Formula 1 in Poland to the end of the 2022 season. The extended deal means Eleven Sports will show all the action from every race weekend exclusively live throughout the 2020, 2021 and 2022 seasons. This is in addition to the current 2019 […]
7Sports, the sport business unit of ProSiebenSat.1, has announced an agreement with Karate Combat to bring its full contact karate competitions free-to-air and online to audiences on ProSieben MAXX and ran FIGHTING across Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Eight events from all over the world will air throughout 2019, live, near-live or on demand on the […]
The percentage of Original movie and TV season titles on Netflix’s US catalogue grew significantly over the course of 2018 according to the latest report from Ampere Analysis. In December 2016, just 4 per cent of the catalogue was made up of Netflix Originals. This had increased to 11 per cent by December 2018, as […]
The operators of a pirate streaming organisation have today been jailed for a total of 17 years for conspiracy to defraud; some of the longest sentences ever issued for piracy-related crimes. Steven King, who masterminded the fraud, has been sentenced to seven years and four months’ imprisonment. Paul Rolston received a sentence of six years […]
The BBC and the Football Association (the FA) have agreed a new four-year broadcast deal to show the Emirates FA Cup until 2025. The new agreement will start at the beginning of the 2021/22 season. The deal will see live match coverage, highlights and clip rights each season from the famous domestic cup competition shown […]
The NBA and YouTube have announced the launch of the NBA’s first YouTube channel dedicated to fans in sub-Saharan Africa. In addition to featuring two live games per week in primetime for the rest of the 2018-19 season, including the Playoffs, Conference Finals and The Finals, the NBA Africa YouTube channel will celebrate the impact […]
Sky and BBC Studios, the commercial arm of the BBC, are to bring a new range of BBC comedy and drama box sets to Sky and NOW TV customers. From April 2019, customers will be able to binge on hundreds of hours of content, newly-available on Sky and NOW TV under the trusted UKTV channel […]
Mediacorp has become the first media company in Southeast Asia to secure broadcast rights to Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 (Tokyo 2020) and the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 (Beijing 2022). The company has obtained sole rights in Singapore to broadcast the Olympic Games from Dentsu, which had been awarded exclusive broadcast rights for the Olympic […]