Telefónica’s pay TV platform Movistar has taken a new step to control all sport TV content following its agreement to broadcast exclusively the Spanish basketball League Liga ACB. The three-year deal is added to the agreements to air La Liga Endesa, Copa del Rey and Supercopa Endesa. With this new deal, Movistar is the major pay-TV […]
The carriage dispute between multichannel programmer UKTV and multiplay operator Virgin Media remains unresolved, despite it appearing that a deal had been reached between the pair. The failure to reach agreement on a renewal saw 10 channels (including the five free-to-air channels such as Dave) replaced on Virgin TV at 00:01 on July 22nd. A statement […]
Telefónica’s pay-TV platform Movistar Plus is launching a new in-house TV channel #Vamos specifically dedicated to sports. The new channel will broadcast 24/7 a programming based on live events, newscasts and interactive programmes with outstanding tournaments such as Wimbledon, NBA, Premier League and Liga Endesa among other contents. Movistar aims to turn #Vamos into a […]
In a move similar to BT in the UK, with pay-TV operators increasingly embracing one-time OTT and SVoD rivals, Comcast and Amazon are to launch Prime Video on Comcast’s Xfinity X1 platform, giving Xfinity TV customers easy access to thousands of additional premium shows and movies over the Internet and marking the first time Amazon […]
The new rules for the awarding of the Serie A TV rights (per product and not per platform as before) may end up negatively impacting the pay-TV market in Italy. Italian daily Il Fatto Quotidiano believes that there is a realistic possibility that the 4.87 million subscribers that Sky Italia had at the end of […]
Australia’s Optus has won the rights to broadcast the UEFA Champions League not long after it was heavily criticised for its botched coverage of the World Cup. The broadcaster said it would screen all Champions League matches for the next three years, as well as the UEFA Europa League and the UEFASuper Cup. It comes […]
After its Russia World Cup FTA experience, Mediaset Spain has acquired exclusive FTA rights to the UEFA Euro 2020 national team football tournament, along with a package of matches played by overseas national teams. Mediaset already covered the previous Euro 2016 and Euro 2012 tournaments. With the agreement, the company now secures the 2020 special […]
The non-profit Sports Fans Coalition NY (SFCNY) has launched Locast.org, a free local broadcast video streaming service currently available in New York City, to the people of Dallas, TX, and announced the expansion of Locast.org in the coming weeks to three other top-10 markets. Locast.org has also premiered a new and improved user interface and […]
The number of Britons that are illegally downloading music is decreasing, according to new custom research from YouGov. YouGov’s Music Report reveals that one in ten Britons (10 per cent) download music illegally, down from 18 per cent five years ago. This number looks set to decrease. While 63 per cent of those that illegally […]
The percentage of Internet users in Europe that occasionally download or stream music, films, series, books or games illegally has decreased between 2014 and 2017, according to the Global Online Piracy Study published by the Institute for Information Law (IViR) of the University of Amsterdam. The decrease is greatest for music, films and series. Meanwhile, […]