According to US pay-TV services DISH and Sling TV, AT&T has made what they describe as an “unprecedented” move to pull HBO and Cinemax content from their subscribers, after making “untenable” demands designed specifically to harm customers, particularly those in rural areas, as well as damage competing pay-TV providers. They say that despite an opposing […]
Canal+ Group has acquired the English Premier League Audiovisual Rights in France and the renewal of the Premier League Audiovisual Rights in Poland. Canal+ channels and NC+ channels will offer all Premier League football matches starting in 2019 until 2022. According to the pay-TV operator, winning back the Premier League rights reflects the Group’s drive […]
Sky and BT have announced an anticipated long term extension and expansion to an overall content cross-supply deal previously announced in the UK in December 2017. As part of the new arrangement, Sky will become BT’s exclusive distribution partner in Ireland. Sky Ireland customers will therefore have their choice of the sports on Sky Sports […]
The BBC has entered a creative partnership with FX Networks, with the BBC securing the rights to all new scripted (comedy and drama) FX original series. The deal was negotiated with the BBC by Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution on behalf of FX Networks. This is the first time FX original series will have a […]
As TV-connected devices become commonplace in US homes, more consumers are choosing to rent and purchase digital movies. As of August 2018, 61 million households in the US had at least one Internet-connected TV, video game console, Blu-ray Disc player or streaming media player, representing year over year growth of three million homes, according to […]
The Auckland High Court has ruled that Internet-streaming service My Box cannot be represented as legal, and that using My Box (and other units like it) to show SKY movies, TV and sports programmes breaches copyright. Sophie Moloney, SKY’s General Counsel, welcomed the ruling. “This decision, along with the recent ruling against Fibre TV boxes in […]
Synamedia, the renamed NDS division that was acquired by Cisco, is back in independent hands. Financed by global investment firm Permira, the buyout from Cisco’s Service Provider Video Software Solutions, has completed. Financial terms of the deal were not released. Synamedia’s portfolio of over 200 pay-TV and media customers includes AT&T, Astro, beIN, Bharti Airtel, […]
In the wake of the controversy around Eleven Sports’ intentional breach of the English Football Association’s (FA) longstanding blackout restriction on UK broadcasters, which was subsequently rescinded, geolocation-based security and digital content protection specialist GeoGuard has put the blackout to the test in terms of seeing how easy (or hard) it would be to circumvent […]
Virgin Media Television – the newly re-branded Irish broadcaster – will show all races from the fifth season of the ABB FIA Formula E Championship in Ireland. Fans of the electric street racing series will be able to follow the action live on Virgin Media Sport – the exclusive new sports channel available to Virgin […]
TV rights for Europe’s big five football leagues are increasingly aligned with their domestic TV market size and fan base size – at least for the time being – according to a report from Ampere Analysis. The slight drop in the value of the English Premier League (EPL) and the rise of the value of […]