Influential US trade body the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has commended Rep. Darrell Issa and Sen. Ron Wyden and a group of bipartisan lawmakers for introducing The Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade (OPEN) Act. The CEA suggests this bill addresses the problem of foreign infringing web sites and is a strong alternative to […]
The UK is to become the second territory after the US to deploy UltraViolet, the technology that bridges a single piece of content to a variety of devices. The first US movie title to be released physically with UltraViolet digital ownership rights – Horrible Bosses – went on retail sale October 11 in the US, […]
ESPN Star Sports (ESS), Asia’s leading sports broadcaster, has confirmed a new five-year contract for the exclusive rights to broadcast Cricket Australia’s (CA) domestic and home international matches across various platforms including television, Internet, mobile and radio covering the entire Asian region. As a part of this deal, the current Future Tours Program (FTP) sees […]
BskyB finance director Andrew Griffith told the UBS conference the Competition Commission’s judgment that Sky Movies is anti-competitive in on-demand movies “was perplexing… The movies market has never been more competitive.” “Sky has never traded on exclusivity. Every movie that’s ever been on Sky Movies has had a theatrical release and has been in Asda […]
Advanced-Television.com can confirm that Canal Plus has lost the majority of its broadcast rights to the UEFA Champions League football matches to Al Jazeera’s sports division. Al Jazeera paid around €180 million to cover the games for a three-year period beginning with the 2012-13 season. The amount paid was reportedly twice what the French pay-TV […]
Jana Bennett, president of BBC Worldwide Networks and Global BBC iPlayer, has confirmed that the Global iPlayer app, currently in trial phase on the iPad, is to extend to further Apple devices She told delegates at the Digital TV World Summit in London that from December 8th, the app will be available on the iPhone […]
French financial newspaper Les Echos says that Qatar-based Al Jazeera Sports has – bizarrely – won the French broadcasting rights for the 2012-2015 Champions League football games. Al Jazeera outbid Canal Plus, says the newspaper. Still to be sold, however, are the TV rights to 13 so-called premium Champions League games each year – including […]
Following confirmation that a bipartisan group of US House and Senate lawmakers had released a draft proposal to address their concerns over controversial House and Senate anti-piracy bills comes news that a senior executive of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is to “come forward” with language for the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act’ […]
Chellomedia’s premium Dutch sports TV channel, Sport1, has again secured the broadcasting rights for the Spanish Primera División football – which will also be broadcast exclusively on Sport1 for the coming three seasons. The broadcasting rights include both live games and edited highlights for television and online. For each Primera División round, Sport1 will broadcast […]
UK supermarket giant Tesco and its online video-on-demand subsidiary blinkbox have announced a new service where customers who purchase a DVD or Blu-ray will also own the movie online. The new service will be exclusive to customers enrolled in the store’s Clubcard loyalty scheme. Beginning on 2 December, with the launch of Harry Potter and […]